Handover, villa and apartment cleaning, laundry collection and home care for Anantara Residences owners

Anantara Residences, Hayat Island: Cleaning, Laundry and Home Services

From AED 45.00/hr

The Anantara Mina Residences are the branded homes of Hayat Island: 84 waterfront apartments, from suites and one and two bedroom residences to three bedroom sky villas, and 19 waterfront villas of three, four and five bedrooms arranged over three floors, each with its own private jetty, all by RAK Properties beside the Anantara Mina Al Arab resort and managed under the Anantara name. An infinity pool, a cinema, conference space, a gym, a yoga studio and a children’s play area come with the residences, and handover is scheduled for the second quarter of 2028, so for their owners the first job is the handover clean that turns a construction-finished villa or apartment into a home that matches the resort next door.

This page is for the people who have bought at the Anantara Residences and are planning ahead, and for the owners who will let a jetty villa or a sky villa to the guests a branded address attracts. It covers what to expect at handover in a villa with a pool and a jetty and in a branded apartment, the cleaning a new home needs in its first year, how laundry collection works from a villa or apartment door, what owners need for a holiday let, and how to line up cleaning and keyholding before handover. Everything is booked in the Halo Clean app with the price shown before you confirm.

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Anantara Residences at a Glance

The residences sit at the resort end of Hayat Island beside the Anantara Mina Al Arab, with Nikki Beach and the NB Collection villas along the shore, Enta Mina completing alongside, the Bay Residences beachfront and Marbella Villas inland and Lagoon Walk across the water. A branded residence comes with its own standards and services from the operator, and our work sits alongside them: the regular cleaning of your own home, the handover clean, the turnover between your guests and the laundry that a villa on the water produces. The facts below are the ones that will shape how an Anantara home gets cleaned and looked after.

84 waterfront apartments by RAK Properties beside the Anantara Mina Al Arab: suites, one and two bedroom residences and three bedroom sky villas, managed under the Anantara name
19 waterfront villas of three, four and five bedrooms arranged over three floors, each with a private jetty on the water
An infinity pool, a cinema, conference space, a gym, a yoga studio and a children's play area for residents, with the resort next door
Handover scheduled for the second quarter of 2028, inside the gated Mina Al Arab master community with 24 hour security

The Anantara next door, Nikki Beach and the InterContinental along the shore, the marina cafés on the island and Lagoon Walk's restaurants across the water
Choithrams about six minutes, Bloom and Al Mondial within eight, Chubby Cheeks, Little Treasure and Red Bus nurseries nearby, Al Jazeera Al Hamra Boys School about seven
Al Jazeera Medical Clinic about eight minutes, RAK Hospital about twenty, Al Rifaa Mosque within ten
E11 in about eight minutes, RAK International Airport 20 to 25, Dubai about an hour, and limited public transport, so most households run a car or a boat

Hayat Island is on our daily Mina Al Arab round. See all cleaning services in Mina Al Arab, the dedicated guides to home cleaning in Mina Al Arab and deep cleaning in Mina Al Arab, our villa cleaning service for the jetty villas, and holiday home management in Mina Al Arab if your home will be let to guests.

Neighbouring communities: NB Collection, Hayat Island.

What to Expect at Handover in the Anantara Residences

A newly handed-over home is clean by construction standards and dirty by living standards, and a three-floor villa with a pool and a jetty has more of both than an apartment: fine cement and plaster dust inside every cupboard, wardrobe and vent on three levels, grout haze and sealant smears on the tiles and stone, protective film and stickers on the glass, appliances and sanitaryware, commissioning grime around the pool, and grit and salt on every terrace and on the jetty decking. A handover clean removes all of it, and it should happen after key collection and snagging and before a single piece of furniture arrives. In a branded home the clean has a second rule: stone, timber and matte finishes are cleaned with pH-neutral products and soft tools, never with the strongest chemical on the shelf.

The first year in a new home has its own pattern: dust keeps surfacing from behind skirting and inside the AC returns as the building dries out, and snagging visits bring contractors and more dust back in. After that, an Anantara home settles into the routine of a waterfront address used to the full: salt on the sea-facing glass and the jetty rail, sand on three floors of stairs and terraces, humidity at the seals and in the bathrooms, the pool deck after a weekend on the water, and guests who expect the resort’s standard. Our crews are on Hayat Island most days, and every booking sends a crew sized to the home with Diversey professional products and their own equipment.

Room by room

Handover: protective film, stickers and packaging residue removed from glass, frames, appliances and sanitaryware, grout haze and cement splashes lifted with products chosen for the surface, sealant smears cleaned back
Inside every cupboard, drawer, wardrobe and kitchen unit, where the construction dust actually lives, wiped out before anything is unpacked into them
Sea-facing glass, balconies, terraces and the jetty: windows cleaned inside and, where there is safe access, outside, tracks and seals cleared of grit, salt and sand, outdoor floors, rails, jetty decking and furniture washed
Pool deck and outdoor living: decking and paving rinsed of sand and sun cream, outdoor kitchen and furniture wiped, the pool surround kept clear, with the pool water itself handled by our pool cleaning service
Kitchen and bathrooms: hob, splashback, sink and stone worktops cleaned with pH-neutral products, appliance interiors wiped after handover, tiles, grout and glass descaled with the right product for the surface, sealant lines treated for the mould that sea air encourages
Bedrooms, living rooms, stairs and landings: dusting from skirting to ceiling on every level, mirrors and internal glass, wardrobe fronts, timber and matte surfaces wiped with soft cloths, floors vacuumed and mopped so sand does not scratch them
AC vents and returns, the tops of tall furniture, the maid's room and the laundry space, where a drying-out home sheds its dust for a year

Which service fits

Handover and post-construction cleaning for a newly completed villa, sky villa or apartment before the furniture arrives
Villa cleaning for the weekly upkeep of a three-floor jetty villa, with the crew sized to the home
House cleaning for the weekly or fortnightly upkeep of an occupied apartment or sky villa, priced by the hour
Deep cleaning after the first summer, after snagging works, before guests or between lets
Turnover cleaning to a resort standard for a home let beside the Anantara
Laundry collection and an ironing add-on so the towels, guest bedding and kandooras leave with the crew

A handover clean of an Anantara apartment or sky villa is half a day to a full day for a two-cleaner crew; a jetty villa is a full day for a larger crew, sometimes two days if the pool deck and terraces are heavily soiled. Regular cleaning after that is two to three hours for an apartment and a morning to a full day for a villa. You choose the hours in the app and the price is shown before you confirm: house cleaning starts at From AED 45.00/hr, villa cleaning is quoted with the crew sized to the home, and handover and deep cleans are quoted by the size and condition of the property.

Laundry Collection in the Anantara Residences

A home beside a resort makes laundry: towels every day, guest bedding between stays, and the kandooras, abayas and linen shirts that need a proper press before an evening at the Anantara. Our laundry collection service takes the bags from your door, has each item washed and pressed, dry cleaned or steam pressed by a specialist laundry partner and returns them in around three days, labelled and scanned at every step, with one collection charge for the whole order. New owners use it for the first wash of everything that came out of a box; after that, hand the bags to the cleaning crew on their regular visit or to the driver at the door, and if you would rather have the ironing done at home, add the ironing option to a house cleaning booking.

Holiday Homes and Rentals in the Anantara Residences

A branded villa with a private jetty, or a sky villa beside the Anantara, is the top of the Ras Al Khaimah short-let market, and guests who book it expect the home to match the resort next door. If you own here and let, the practical questions are the same whether the next arrival is a family for a fortnight or a tenant for a year: who furnishes and photographs the home after the handover clean, who turns it around between arrivals, who holds the keys and meets the check-ins, who looks after the pool and the jetty, and who is accountable when something is not right. Our holiday home management in Mina Al Arab covers listing, pricing, guest care, RAKTDA permits and hotel-standard turnover cleaning for a published share of rental income, with residence and community approvals confirmed per unit before anything is listed. Owners who let long term use our landlord support for move-in and move-out cleaning and inspections, and our keyholder service holds keys and smart-lock codes for cleaners, contractors and check-ins while you are away.

Turnover cleaning in the Anantara Residences will run to a resort standard: beds made with fresh linen, bathrooms sanitised, kitchen and outdoor kitchen reset, glass, terraces, pool deck and jetty cleared of salt, grit and sand, towels restocked, and a photo record sent when the crew leaves. One accountable team means one phone number when the guest calls about the pool.

Living in the Anantara Residences: Access, the Resort and Practicalities

Until handover, the residences are a construction site behind hoardings beside a working resort. Security registers visitors and contractors at the Mina Al Arab entrance, the apartments will have their own entrance, lifts and arrangements for contractor access and waste, the villas their own street, driveways and jetties, and a branded residence adds its own operator rules for contractors, deliveries and guests, which we follow. The handover process, with its snagging inspection, defects list and key collection, has its own sequence, and all of it sits within the rules that RAK Properties, which manages the master community, publishes through its community management team and eServices portal. Our crews are on Hayat Island most days, so they will know the residences’ routes from the first week. Our property snagging inspection fits that sequence: a numbered, photographed defects list at a fixed price, booked online before you sign the acceptance.

What we need from you is simple: the villa or apartment number, any instruction the residence, the operator or the handover team has given you, and how the crew gets in if you are not on site, whether that is a key with our keyholder service, a smart-lock code, household staff or a key left with the residence where its rules allow it. For a handover clean, tell us the key collection date and whether the snagging works and the pool commissioning are finished, so the crew comes once rather than twice, and tell us about any finish flagged as delicate. Crews park on the villa driveway or where the residence directs contractors, never in the resort’s bays, and take waste, packaging and protective film out with them.

Seasonally, a waterfront home asks for different things. Summer humidity is the bathroom, window-seal and AC season; winter is the beach, pool and boat season, when sand, towels and outdoor living put the load on floors, decks, the jetty and the laundry; the weeks before Eid, the end of the school year and the start of the winter letting season are when deep cleans, laundry collections and guest resets all land at once; and in a new home, a deep clean after the first summer, once it has dried out, is worth more than any other.

Every Service Your Anantara Home Will Need

Post-Construction Cleaning

The handover clean for a new Anantara villa or apartment: builders' dust, grout haze, protective film and pool-deck grit removed with surface-safe products before you move in.

Villa Cleaning

Crews sized to a three-floor jetty villa with a pool deck, terraces and up to five bedrooms.

Deep Cleaning

The first-summer reset and every pre-guest, between-let and post-season clean after it, inside cupboards, appliances and AC grilles.

Laundry Collection

Collected from your door, washed and pressed, dry cleaned or steam pressed, and returned in around three days.

Holiday Home Management

Listing, guests, permits and resort-standard turnover cleaning for owners who let an Anantara home, approvals confirmed per unit.

Keyholder Service

Secure key and smart-lock access for cleaners, contractors, pool visits, snagging and check-ins while you are away.

The extras a waterfront home needs are booked the same way: pool cleaning for the villa pools, gardening for the planting around the decks, sofa and upholstery cleaning and mattress cleaning for furnishings that collect sand and first-year dust, AC duct cleaning once the home has dried out and before the heat, and pest control for the ants and mosquitoes that come with living on the water.

Booking From the Anantara Residences

Set your Anantara villa or apartment in the Halo Clean app once and every booking after that takes a minute. Choose the service and the hours, pick a day and time, add any residence, handover or access note, and the price is confirmed before you pay. Recurring visits are booked once and run on their own.

Download the app and set your address: Anantara Residences, Hayat Island, and the villa or apartment number
Choose post-construction, villa, deep or house cleaning and the hours you need
Pick a day and a time inside the community's contractor hours, after key collection for a handover clean
Add residence instructions, a key arrangement or the laundry bags to the visit
The crew arrives equipped and on time, and you get a message and photos when they are done

Book Cleaning in the Anantara Residences

From the handover clean of a brand-new jetty villa to the weekly upkeep of a sky villa beside the resort, Halo Clean will look after the Anantara Residences to the standard the name sets. Book in the app, online, or call or WhatsApp 054 175 4256 between 8am and 8pm, seven days a week.

Frequently Asked Questions

When do the Anantara Residences hand over, and when should I book the handover clean?

Handover is scheduled for the second quarter of 2028. Book the handover clean for the days after key collection and, ideally, after the snagging works and, for a villa, the pool commissioning are finished, and always before the furniture is delivered. Tell us your key collection date as soon as it is confirmed and we will hold the day.

What does an Anantara handover clean include?

Everything that stands between a construction-finished home and one you can furnish: builders’ dust removed from every cupboard, drawer, wardrobe and vent, protective film and stickers taken off glass, appliances and sanitaryware, grout haze, cement splashes and sealant smears lifted from tiles and stone with products chosen for the surface, commissioning grime cleaned from the pool surround, and the bathrooms, kitchen, terraces, pool deck and jetty cleaned to living standard. We photograph the home before and after, and if we find snags for your defects list, we tell you.

Does the residence's own service replace regular cleaning?

A branded residence comes with the operator’s own standards and services, and what they include is set out in your residence agreement, not by us. Our work sits alongside them: the handover clean, the regular cleaning of your own home, the deep cleans, the turnover between your guests and the laundry, booked by you in the app and carried out within the residence’s rules for contractors.

Do you clean the pool, the jetty and the terraces?

The pool deck, the terraces, the jetty decking and rail, the outdoor kitchen and the furniture are part of a villa clean where you include them in the hours, and the pool water, filters and chemistry are handled by our pool cleaning service, booked from the home maintenance side of the app. Boat cleaning is a separate service; ask us and we will point you to it.

How much does cleaning cost in the Anantara Residences?

House cleaning is priced by the hour, with the rate shown in the Halo Clean app; villa cleaning is quoted with the crew sized to a three-floor home with a pool deck, and handover cleans and deep cleans are quoted by the size and condition of the property. There are no extra charges for gate access or parking, and recurring visits are booked once and run on their own.

Can I arrange cleaning and keyholding before I have the keys?

Yes. Set up your account and address in the app now, tell us your expected handover quarter, and we will book the handover clean, a furnishing-day visit and a keyholding plan against the date once it is confirmed. Overseas owners often have us collect the keys, photograph the snagging and hold the keys for the furniture delivery and the first tenant or guest.

Do you collect laundry from the Anantara Residences?

Yes. A Halo Clean driver collects from your villa or apartment door, each bag is labelled and scanned, your items are washed and pressed, dry cleaned or steam pressed by our specialist laundry partner and delivered back in around three days. You can hand the bags to the cleaning crew on a regular visit or book a collection on its own, and prices are per item and per treatment, confirmed before collection.

Can I let my Anantara home as a holiday home?

Short lets in Mina Al Arab need a RAKTDA holiday home permit plus the residence’s and the community’s own approval, which are confirmed per unit and, in a branded residence, depend on the operator’s rules. Our holiday home management service in Mina Al Arab handles the permit, the listing, guests and resort-standard turnover cleaning for a published share of rental income, and we confirm the approvals position for your home before anything is listed.

Which nearby communities do you also serve?

All of Hayat Island and Mina Al Arab: the NB Collection villas and Enta Mina alongside, Bay Residences and the Bayviews towers on the beach, Cape Hayat, Quattro Del Mar and Porto Playa, Marbella Villas and Gateway Residences II inland, the Lagoon Views apartments and Lagoon Walk across the water, and Bermuda Villas and Gateway Residences I on Raha Island. Our crews cover Al Hamra Village and Al Marjan Island on the same coastal round.

Ready for a Clean Start in the Anantara Residences?

Line up the handover clean, villa or house cleaning, laundry collection and keyholding for your Anantara home in the Halo Clean app, or ask about holiday home management before the keys arrive. Call or WhatsApp 054 175 4256, 8am to 8pm, seven days a week.

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