Hotel and Serviced Apartment Furniture Movers in Jeddah
Refurbishing a floor, swapping out a room set, or fitting out a new serviced-apartment block? Wathab moves hotel furniture in Jeddah room by room, around guests, through service lifts, on a schedule that keeps the rest of the property selling.
The property stays open
Why hotel moves are measured in rooms, not in loads.
A hotel refurbishment is not a relocation. Almost nobody empties a property in Jeddah and starts again; they take a floor, or a wing, or a block of room numbers out of inventory, change it, and put it back. The furniture moving that goes with that is a rolling operation rather than a single event.
That changes the unit of work. We quote and schedule hotel work by room set — a known number of rooms, each with a known contents list — rather than by truckload. It lets revenue management see exactly how many keys are out of service and for how long, which is the number the property actually cares about.
It also changes the crew’s behaviour. Guests are in the corridor. Lifts are shared. Noise windows are real. A crew that works a hotel the way it works an empty villa will generate complaints before it generates progress.
Working around guests
The rules we work to in an occupied property.
- Service lifts and service corridors only. No furniture moves through a guest lift or a lobby unless the property specifically directs it.
- Agreed noise windows respected, with the loud work — dismantling, hammer-fixing, trolleying — confined to them.
- Corridor protection laid before the first item moves, and corridors left clear at the end of every shift, never part-blocked overnight.
- Doors held rather than propped; fire doors never wedged, which is the fastest way to a complaint from a property’s own safety officer.
- Crews briefed on which floors are occupied that day, because the occupancy map changes and yesterday’s brief is not today’s.
- Waste removed from the floor at the end of each shift rather than accumulated in a service lobby.
These are not courtesies. In a working hotel they are the difference between a refurbishment that runs to plan and one that is suspended after two days.
A standard room set
What actually moves out of a guest room.
| Item | Handling | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Bed base and headboard | Headboard unbolted from wall where fixed; base moved whole or split | Wall fixings recorded for the replacement |
| Mattress | Bagged before it leaves the room | Never dragged in a corridor |
| Case goods (wardrobe, desk, luggage bench) | Moved whole where the door allows, otherwise dismantled | Door width is the deciding factor |
| Soft seating | Sleeved, legs removed if detachable | Legs bagged to the piece |
| Mirrors and art | Removed, corner-protected, boxed | Wall anchors left in place unless told otherwise |
| TV and electronics | Detached from bracket, boxed, numbered to the room | Bracket stays unless the replacement differs |
| Minibar and in-room fridge | Drained, moved upright | Connection by the property’s own technician |
Where rooms are identical, the contents list is agreed once and applied to every room in the set, which is what makes a floor-at-a-time schedule possible.
Out with the old, in with the new
Sequencing a refurbishment floor.
Room set agreed
Contents list confirmed once, applied to every room in the block. Deviations are flagged by the crew rather than assumed.
Strip to the service lift
Rooms emptied in a running order that keeps one lift free and one corridor clear at all times.
Old furniture out of the building
Either to storage, to a disposal route, or to a second property — decided before the strip, not after.
New furniture staged
Replacement items brought up in room quantities, not dumped on a floor, so the corridor stays passable.
Build and position
Rooms built to the agreed layout; wall-fixed items re-anchored; anything missing listed per room number.
Room signed back
Each room handed back individually so housekeeping can turn it and revenue can resell it without waiting for the floor.
That last point is where most of the commercial value sits. Handing a floor back as one block means the first room finished waits for the last. Handing rooms back individually puts keys back on sale days earlier.
Serviced apartments and long-stay blocks
The same job with a kitchen in it.
Serviced apartments add two things a hotel room does not have: a kitchen and a tenant who lives there rather than visiting. Both change the plan.
The kitchen means appliances, and appliances mean drainage, levelling and a technician for reconnection. The resident means notice, consent and a realistic window — a long-stay guest who comes back to a half-finished apartment will escalate, and rightly. We work to the window the property agrees with the resident and we do not overrun into their evening.
Appliance handling
Fridges, washers and ovens are drained, secured and moved upright. Positioning and levelling by us; connection by the property’s licensed technician.
Kitchen units
Fitted units are removed as panels with fixings kept per panel where they are being reused, or stripped for disposal where they are not.
Resident belongings
Never moved. Where a unit is occupied, the resident’s own property stays or is handled by the property, not by our crew.
Single-apartment turnarounds
Priced as a room set rather than as a house move, so a block of identical units has a predictable per-unit cost.
Hotel furniture moving prices in Jeddah
Official Wathab pricing, in Saudi riyals.
| Scope | Price (SAR) |
|---|---|
| Dabab run — a few items between floors or properties | 80 – 250 |
| Single guest room set | 350 – 600 |
| Studio or one-bedroom serviced apartment | 500 – 900 |
| Two-bedroom serviced apartment | 800 – 1,400 |
| Suite or four to five room equivalent | 1,200 – 1,900 |
| Small floor or wing | 1,500 – 2,500 |
| Large floor or full block | 2,500 – 4,000 |
Dismantling and reassembly is quoted separately: 150 – 300 SAR for a bedroom set, 100 – 250 SAR for a sliding or flat-pack wardrobe, 200 – 400 SAR for an aluminium kitchen and 400 – 900 SAR for a full apartment package. Storage for displaced furniture is 150 – 300 SAR a month for one to two rooms, 250 – 450 SAR for an apartment-sized load and 400 – 800 SAR for a villa-sized load.
Multi-room programmes are quoted per room set with a schedule attached, so the property can see cost per key and keys out of service side by side. The survey is free and the price is written before work starts. See corporate storage for holding displaced room sets.
Where the old furniture goes
Three honest options.
Stripped hotel furniture is rarely worthless and rarely worth keeping in full. The property usually ends up doing a mix of three things, and deciding which before the strip is what keeps the service corridor clear.
| Option | Suits | Practical note |
|---|---|---|
| Store for reuse | Items being redeployed to another property or held as spares | Costed monthly; worth it for case goods, rarely for mattresses |
| Sell or donate on | Serviceable sets with years of life left | Needs a buyer arranged before the strip, not after |
| Dispose | End-of-life items | Handled as a separate removal run so it does not share a vehicle with items being kept |
Mixing these three decisions on the day is the most common reason a refurbishment floor becomes congested.
We can hold reusable sets in storage and release them per room when the next phase needs them, which is usually cheaper than buying twice.
What we need before quoting
Six answers that fix the programme.
- Number of rooms in the block, and whether their contents are identical.
- Whether the property is occupied during the work, and on which floors.
- Service lift dimensions and the hours it is available to the project.
- Agreed noise windows and the hours the crew may work in corridors.
- What happens to the stripped furniture: store, sell, or dispose — per item type.
- Whether new furniture is arriving on the same days, and who is receiving it.
With those answers we can give you cost per room set and keys-out-of-service by date, which is the pair of numbers a property actually plans with. Related: corporate relocation, loading and unloading crews and old furniture disposal.
Refurbishing a hotel or serviced apartment block in Jeddah?
Send us the room count, the floors involved and your target dates. We will survey free of charge and quote per room set with a schedule attached.
Hotel furniture moving in Jeddah — frequently asked questions
What hotel and serviced-apartment operators in Jeddah ask us before booking.
Yes — that is the normal case. We work service lifts and service corridors only, within agreed noise windows, with corridors protected and left clear at the end of every shift. Crews are briefed daily on which floors are occupied.
Per room set rather than per truckload: 350 – 600 SAR for a guest room, 500 – 900 SAR for a studio or one-bedroom serviced apartment, 800 – 1,400 SAR for a two-bedroom and 1,500 – 4,000 SAR for a floor or block. It lets you see cost per key alongside keys out of service.
One at a time, if you want them to. Each room is handed back individually so housekeeping can turn it and revenue can resell it, rather than the first room finished waiting for the last.
Yes, by whichever route you choose: into storage for reuse, out to a buyer you have arranged, or on a separate disposal run. Deciding that before the strip rather than after is what keeps the service corridor clear.
No. We drain, move upright, position and level them. Electrical, water and gas connection is for the property’s own licensed technician, and we schedule so the units are in place before their visit.
We work only to the window the property has agreed with the resident, and we do not handle the resident’s own belongings at all — those stay, or are handled by the property. Overrunning into a resident’s evening is not something we do.
Yes. Storage is 150 – 300 SAR a month for a one to two room load, 250 – 450 SAR for an apartment-sized load and 400 – 800 SAR for a villa-sized load, and sets can be released per room as each phase needs them.
Yes. Redeploying case goods and seating from one property to another is common, and it is quoted the same way — per room set, with a schedule that works around both properties’ occupancy.