WishCasting
Id like to outline that I live here so I can truly give an authentic feedback regarding this place.
Pros:
-great price
-peaceful neighborhood and neighbors
-not so far from any place in dubai(by car of course), Marina is 15 to 20 minutes and so is downtown. Airport is 20 minutes.
-clean
-friendly staff
-not busy with traffic
-big, spacious and luminous flats
-close by theres a fantastic place called al barari, great food, great drinks, they have a gym, tennis courts, swimming pool and a little forest and river where you can stroll around in.
Cons:
-There is no exit for this area (majan) if you come from Dubai Marina or global village area. The only way for you to enter this area is by coming from the opposite direction, so like from the airport, silicon oasis, mirdif. So if you come from Marina, youll have to proceed an extra 7 km to reach the Silicon oasis exit, do 2 loops around and get back on Sheik Mohamed bin Zayed road and go another 7 km and finally get on the exit to majan. Youll have much traffic at the exit to silicon oasis, sometimes it takes you 15 minutes to queue it. If you avoid the queue as many do and cut in front of the line at the very last moment, you might find police waiting there for you, so youll be fined.
THIS is the worst aspect for living in this area, its horrible needing to do an extra 30 minutes of driving just to get back home. Its ridiculous. And RTA (road and transport administration) doesnt care. Police sit at the entrance to sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed road, where you leave Majan area and enter the main Highway, they sit there and catch people that go in the opposite direction to go back home. The stretch of that illegal maneuver is about 35 meters, it saves people 20-30 minutes of extra drive to get back home, people do this because they are sick of going to work and needing to do an extra ridiculous 30 minutes of driving. Rta and the police havent done anything to fix this and I guess its cause of its great revenue.
It took them 3 years to build the IMG theme world Park, the biggest indoor world Park in the world, I repeat, 3 years to build it, however its taking them over 8 years to build a simple exit to get back home (still didnt start any of it), a road of 30 meters that avoids 30 minutes to all residents to this area and illegal maneuvers that can cause massive accidents (its a one way street!!).
-few buildings in this area, not very populated so there arent many supermarkets with competitive prices.
-much sand and wind so cars get dirty really quickly and if you dont have good insulation your house gets sandy all over
-the building has no sauna or showers (usually damac properties should have it since its a premium company, maybe they are downgrading?)
-parking is semi closed, so its columns without walls. Your car can be clean and shiny one day but within the next itll get dirty again. Just put some walls up, the tenants wont need to wash their car every day and the cleaners wont need to clean the sand every week (youll save money)
-There are plenty of birds around, I love birds but they do nests above the parking spots on the water and gas tubings and they do their excrements over the cars below. This damages the cars paint and its not good. Its easy to fix, just by putting spiked barbed wire above each parking spot.
-the swimming pool has few beach beds, youll end up staying on the floor sometimes.
-the gym has very few weights, some machines dont work properly and there is no punching bag (so easy to put up, uses little space, just put it in the corner)
-no decoration in the common areas, no plants or water dispensers.
Overall, if this was a simple no brand building I would give it a 4 star rating but since its a Damac property I expect a 5 star service and it clearly isnt.
I believe this is a downgrade of any Damac building Ive ever seen so dont expect luxury.
Im doing great here since I dont really need luxury but many things should receive an improvement.
