Ajman Holiday Home Permit Cost — Official Fees per Room in AED

The fee schedule, verified on egov.ajman.ae

Ajman's Tourism Development Department publishes the holiday-home fees on its e-government service catalog, and the individuals and operators pages list identical figures: AED 50 for registration in the Register of Holiday Homes (first year); AED 50 for initial approval to practice the holiday-homes activity; then the one-year permit priced per room — AED 300 for one room, AED 600 for two, AED 900 for three and AED 1,200 for four or more rooms; plus AED 100 for issuing the certificate and classification board (luxury or standard). The catalog page was last updated in November 2024 — treat these as the current schedule and confirm at application (reviewed November 2026).

Ajman vs Dubai — the AED 300 parallel

Ajman's AED 300 per room matches Dubai DET's AED 300 per bedroom almost exactly, which makes the two easy to confuse — the differences sit in the fixed fees around it. Dubai adds AED 50 for the classification certificate plus AED 10 knowledge and AED 10 innovation fees, for a one-bedroom first-year total of AED 370. Ajman adds AED 50 registration + AED 50 initial approval + AED 100 certificate and board, putting a one-room first-year total at AED 500. Both emirates price the permit annually; both cap their schedule well below Abu Dhabi's AED 2,450 first-year cost.

Individuals and operators — two services, same fees

The catalog lists the permit under two service names: "Holiday Home Unit Permit for Individuals" for owners running their own unit, and the Holiday Home Permit for Operators under the Tourism Development Department for companies managing units for owners. The fee schedule is identical on both tracks — the room-count tiering decides the price, not who applies. Processing time is listed at three working days.

What the catalog doesn't state

Two things the service pages don't price: renewal and the security deposit. The permit is issued for one year, and the catalog doesn't list a separate renewal fee — plan on the same schedule applying, and confirm with the department at renewal time. Likewise no deposit amount is stated on the service page; if a deposit applies to your application it will appear at submission. Everything else — the register fee, initial approval, per-room permit and classification board — carries an explicit figure above.

Every emirate prices this differently

The numbers above are Ajman's alone. Dubai charges AED 300 per bedroom plus AED 70 in fixed fees; Abu Dhabi prices the activity flat at AED 900 a year plus a one-time AED 1,550 registration; Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah each regulate through their own tourism authorities with separate schedules. Searching "DTCM permit charges" or copying Dubai numbers to another emirate is the most common budgeting mistake in the UAE short-let market — always pull the fee schedule from the emirate's own authority.

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