Ras Al Khaimah Holiday Home Permit Cost — Official RAKTDA Fees in AED

The fee schedule, from RAKTDA's registration guide

The Tourism Development Authority's How-to-Register guide prices the process directly: AED 100 to register your account per application, then the unit permit priced by bedrooms — AED 300 for one bedroom, AED 600 for two, AED 900 for three and AED 1,200 for four or more — with every unit requiring its own permit. A one-bedroom first-year total comes to AED 400 before the nightly dirham. The per-bedroom ladder mirrors Dubai DET's AED 300 per bedroom and Ajman's AED 300 per room, which makes cross-emirate budgets easier to sanity-check.

The Tourism Dirham — AED 15 per occupied unit-night

Ras Al Khaimah levies a Tourism Dirham of AED 15 per occupied unit per night, issued under Emiri Decree No. 20 of 2015, and the operator collects it from guests and remits it to the Authority. That is a different mechanic from the other emirates: Dubai charges its tourism dirham on a per-bedroom-tiered schedule, and Abu Dhabi levies a 6% tax on the total guest invoice instead. For a RAK unit occupied 200 nights a year, the dirham alone runs to about AED 3,000 — budget it into pricing, not just the permit fee.

Documents and how to apply

Applications run through the official portal at holidayhomesrak.com. The document set per the registration guide: passport, Emirates ID, the unit's title deed, and a FEWA utility bill; tenants additionally need an owner-signed sublease authorisation. The Authority reviews within 48 hours — about two business days — before the permit issues. Note the guide also states that Airbnb is the Ras Al Khaimah preferred partner: channel-synced operations are expected in this market, and any tool you run should keep direct bookings and OTA channels in one calendar.

What RAKTDA's guide doesn't state

Two things the registration guide leaves open: the permit's validity period and its renewal terms. Neither is printed in the PDF, so treat both as questions for the portal at application time rather than assumptions from other emirates' one-year cycles. Everything else — the AED 100 registration, the per-bedroom permit ladder, the AED 15 nightly dirham, the 48-hour review and the document list — carries an explicit figure in the official guide (reviewed November 2026).

How RAK compares across the emirates

Dubai: AED 300 per bedroom plus fixed fees — AED 370 a year for a one-bedroom. Ajman: AED 300 per room with AED 200 in fixed fees — AED 500 first year for one room. Abu Dhabi: a flat AED 900 licence per year plus a one-time AED 1,550 registration. RAK matches the AED 300 per-bedroom pattern but adds the AED 15 nightly dirham, which scales with occupancy rather than unit size. Sharjah runs its own SCTDA framework and publishes its fees per-transaction rather than on one open schedule.

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