Laundry & Dry Cleaning at Sunday Mangrove Corniche Hotel.

Running gear from the corniche, T-shirts and everyday wear do not need counting. You fill a bag; we weigh it. Sixty dirhams buys six kilos, ninety-nine buys twelve, and heavier loads add twelve a kilo. Expect it folded at the hotel the following day.

Many guests visit family in Ras Al Khaimah and dress for it. A plain abaya costs eighteen dirhams, a delicate one thirty-five, a kandura fifteen and a two-piece suit fifty. Give it to us before twelve and it may come back that evening.

For clothes already clean that came out of a case creased. Ironing a kandura is twelve dirhams, a plain abaya ten, a jalabiya twelve and a shirt nine, and the lot is back at the hotel the next day, hung and ready.

Bedding in the rooms belongs to the hotel. This card is for households in Khuzam and around the old town: a sheet is eighteen dirhams, a bathrobe sixteen, a pillow eighteen and a blanket thirty, all inside a day.

Running shoes after the corniche and polished shoes for a family dinner. Formal shoes or trainers cost fifty-five dirhams, kids' pairs thirty-five, boots eighty-five; a protective spray is twenty. Leave two to four days.

An evening clutch for a wedding, a crossbody bag for sightseeing, or the suitcase itself. Clutches and handbags cost forty-five dirhams, a crossbody fifty-five and a small suitcase eighty-five, ready in three to five days.

An abaya bought on the trip that trails on the floor, or a kandura that needs a sleeve adjusted. Plain abaya or kandura shortening is forty dirhams, embroidered abaya hems fifty-five, finished in two to three days.

For family homes in Khuzam and the old town whose majlis carpets need a deep clean, not for hotel rooms. Regular carpets cost twenty dirhams per square metre, wool twenty-six, curtains twenty or twenty-five. Three days.

Families often gather in Ras Al Khaimah for weddings. A bridal gown costs from two hundred and fifty dirhams, a beaded one from four hundred and fifty and a wedding abaya fifty, with seven to fourteen days needed.

For organisers of corniche festivals and community events who rent or own a character suit. Costumes cost two hundred to two hundred and fifty dirhams by size, plus thirty for each separate accessory, in three to five days.

Small children travelling to see grandparents usually bring a teddy along. Washing one costs fifty-five dirhams small, seventy medium and one hundred and twenty large, returned clean in two to three days.

For homes near the corniche with a majlis full of cushions. Sofa covers cost thirty-five dirhams regular or forty large, and cushion covers ten, fifteen or twenty by size, returned within two to three days.

Visitors in the cooler months bring leather jackets for the evening breeze off the creek. Jackets cost one hundred and fifty dirhams, coats one hundred and thirty and leather shoes or boots one hundred and eighty, over three to five days.