My wife and I just secured a place in Sky Gardens yesterday, been a hassle dealing with this guy who we assume is a very well known agent. Really nice person, but rarely turned up to any of our planned meetings, so be ready for frustration if you are looking here!
On the other hand we think the tower looks great. We missed out on our original apartment we wanted and had to settle for a lower floor but bigger size.
I have heard talk about all the old problems but nothing seems to be smelling bad here. Bit concerned that I am lead to believe DIFC manage their own rental issues seperately from RERA/Rent Committee, not much we can do about that though.
Coconut I wonder if you might help please,
(1) is it correct that the plot next to SG is just a storage site and not a new building site?
(2) I noticed a bell boy kept bringing up peoples food shopping to their doors after it got deliveried, but didn't notice which store they order from, any suggestions please?
(3) any ideas how long it takes to setup internet as this is fairly urgent for my work, I was thinking of using etisalate but on their website I typed in the SG front desk number and it says they don't supply SG ?
(4) Did you get Fendi curtains or obtain your own? and if your own any suggestions where we can get these please and how much it might cost for these size windows. We are htinking of just doing the bedroom only.
Many thanks,
ps. I accidently typed in sky tower previously and thought the tower was in A.D.
Hey! Welcome to SG!
Sorry to hear about your troubles with the agent. You have probably gathered they are useless!!!
I don't know for sure what the plot next to the empower building may be used for in the future. You can rest assured that in Dubai you will be the last to know!
There is a Waitrose in Dubai mall, Almaya in Murooj Rotana. Almaya delivers. Milk and Honey does too. Not tried any others. We are supposedly getting our own supermarket soon. Spinneys or Choithrams is about to open in DIFC too.
We have Du- expensive but very fast and reliable. In the meantime most cafes in DIFC have wifi if you are really stuck. SG used to have open access wifi in reception. Not sure if they still do.
Curtains- we don't have them. You can get a tailor to make them for upstairs and down for 300GBP. Or hang on and buy from someone leaving if fendi isn't to your liking.
The smell- we don't have a smell because I had all out vents blocked. If you suffer if you pm me i can outline the steps I took....
Lastly, we signed a contract originally which at the time included chiller fee. We were informed in January we would be billed for chiller when individualised meters had been fitted to each apartment. March came and made up backdated bills for the previous 9 months started arriving at a rate of 2 a day, (going back to july 2012) to the tune of 2000GBP!! Hope that your contract explicitly includes chiller fee.
Hope the move goes smoothly for you!
