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SARA TOWER: This is a newly openned or semi-openned tower in West Bay. Prices range from 11K to 15K. It is advertised as a luxury tower. In my opinion, here are the positive and negative things about this tower.POSITIVE:1. The Lobby features designer furniture and lighting and surely does make a good first impression. The quality of finishing in the public areas are good and the details are good. 2. The unit is sizeable with great views around3. See 1 and 2 NEGATIVE:1. Some furnishings, although trendy are definitely cheap and of poor quality. The carpet is especially worse, as it sheds far more than 10 St.Bernard dogs would. For some weird reason, the bath tub gets easily stained by the water (rusty water?)2. Smell. The whole tower smells like indian curry on a good day. Good thing that it doesn't smell in your kitchen, just in your bedroom when you are having a good sleep.3. Facilities. Barely there. As the tower is newly opened. Most facilities are not open. Yet you are paying for it in your rent. The indoor pool is good though but barely usable as the sunlight doesn't get in (only sometime around 3pm). They have a big jacuzzi though.4. Fire safety. The fire alarm is definitely working but the alarms are only in the corridor and not in your unit. So if you are sleeping and left the TV on and closed all the doors behind you, then there's a possibility you'll be the last to know that there's a fire. There is a smoke detector in your unit though.5. Security. The security guards are very friendly and are always on duty. But say a burglar passed through them.... that's it. Your unit main door doesn't have a peep-hole to see who's knocking, or a security latch either. 6. You can not call the reception from your unit. You have to beep them through your unit, and they call you back...how convenient.7. English. Only the receptionist and some other maintenance can speak good english. Expect hard communication and badly written notices in the lift.8. Staff and Maintenance. Although the occupancy now is vey low, they are already understaffed. 9. Kitchen Counter. Scratch proof but after you clean it, the color won't even out so it looks perpetually dirty even when clean.10. Floor. Nice floor patterns but horrible to maintain. Large gaps between the tiles aren't very easy to clean and looks horrible when stained or wet.It makes the whole unit "look" dirty.11. You pay a LOT for luxury and convenience but you don't get it. The tower has a lot of potential to be a good class tower if only they would be serious about delivering the quality as promised. I would give it a year or so before this tower can be considered broken-in and ready to deliver all its luxuries to you. Right now, there are just a lot of glitches and big misses that needs to be addressed, which is very common in all newly opened towers.Read more: http://www.qatarliving.com/node/2023793#ixzz1UnKbS1Ux
Hiya, ok. Sara Tower has been completed and floating around for years!! It finally seems as though it's ready to come to the market and the prices are (don't hold me to this!) 11,000QR 1 bed, 13,000QR 2 bed 17,000(!)QR 3 bed. The apartments and furniture(western style) are great, still no gym there and it's an indoor pool which is a negative to lots of people. Tower looks great, some of the initial fittings were crap, but seem to have upgraded. Impressive reception area, but they're still looking for an operator to take of the F&B side of the tower.Umbah Tower (Umbab?) is quite new, and the apartments are a decent size. Pool is indoor again, but there's a good sized gym. Only 2 and 3 beds from 12,000QR, furniture is too arabic styled for my taste, but that's just me! Decent space for a decent price. Lots of space in this one.I'd go for Sara Tower out of the two options, even for a litte more money, but the qulaity is better.Good luck with you decision! If you need any more specific help, PM me.
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SARA TOWER: This is a newly openned or semi-openned tower in West Bay. Prices range from 11K to 15K. It is advertised as a luxury tower. In my opinion, here are the positive and negative things about this tower.POSITIVE:1. The Lobby features designer furniture and lighting and surely does make a good first impression. The quality of finishing in the public areas are good and the details are good. 2. The unit is sizeable with great views around3. See 1 and 2 NEGATIVE:1. Some furnishings, although trendy are definitely cheap and of poor quality. The carpet is especially worse, as it sheds far more than 10 St.Bernard dogs would. For some weird reason, the bath tub gets easily stained by the water (rusty water?)2. Smell. The whole tower smells like indian curry on a good day. Good thing that it doesn't smell in your kitchen, just in your bedroom when you are having a good sleep.3. Facilities. Barely there. As the tower is newly opened. Most facilities are not open. Yet you are paying for it in your rent. The indoor pool is good though but barely usable as the sunlight doesn't get in (only sometime around 3pm). They have a big jacuzzi though.4. Fire safety. The fire alarm is definitely working but the alarms are only in the corridor and not in your unit. So if you are sleeping and left the TV on and closed all the doors behind you, then there's a possibility you'll be the last to know that there's a fire. There is a smoke detector in your unit though.5. Security. The security guards are very friendly and are always on duty. But say a burglar passed through them.... that's it. Your unit main door doesn't have a peep-hole to see who's knocking, or a security latch either. 6. You can not call the reception from your unit. You have to beep them through your unit, and they call you back...how convenient.7. English. Only the receptionist and some other maintenance can speak good english. Expect hard communication and badly written notices in the lift.8. Staff and Maintenance. Although the occupancy now is vey low, they are already understaffed. 9. Kitchen Counter. Scratch proof but after you clean it, the color won't even out so it looks perpetually dirty even when clean.10. Floor. Nice floor patterns but horrible to maintain. Large gaps between the tiles aren't very easy to clean and looks horrible when stained or wet.It makes the whole unit "look" dirty.11. You pay a LOT for luxury and convenience but you don't get it. The tower has a lot of potential to be a good class tower if only they would be serious about delivering the quality as promised. I would give it a year or so before this tower can be considered broken-in and ready to deliver all its luxuries to you. Right now, there are just a lot of glitches and big misses that needs to be addressed, which is very common in all newly opened towers.Read more: http://www.qatarliving.com/node/2023793#ixzz1UnKbS1Ux
Hiya, ok. Sara Tower has been completed and floating around for years!! It finally seems as though it's ready to come to the market and the prices are (don't hold me to this!) 11,000QR 1 bed, 13,000QR 2 bed 17,000(!)QR 3 bed. The apartments and furniture(western style) are great, still no gym there and it's an indoor pool which is a negative to lots of people. Tower looks great, some of the initial fittings were crap, but seem to have upgraded. Impressive reception area, but they're still looking for an operator to take of the F&B side of the tower.Umbah Tower (Umbab?) is quite new, and the apartments are a decent size. Pool is indoor again, but there's a good sized gym. Only 2 and 3 beds from 12,000QR, furniture is too arabic styled for my taste, but that's just me! Decent space for a decent price. Lots of space in this one.I'd go for Sara Tower out of the two options, even for a litte more money, but the qulaity is better.Good luck with you decision! If you need any more specific help, PM me.
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