Last updated: 22 July 2026
By Nour, Casa Duna
Quick answer: Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi is a tertiary hospital on Al Maryah Island in the centre of the city, and where you should stay depends entirely on how long you’ll be here:
- A few nights (tests, consults, must-be-bedside): book the connected hotel, Rosewood Abu Dhabi, joined to the clinic by a dedicated corridor. It’s the nearest possible bed.
- A week or more (chemo, radiotherapy, dialysis, IVF, recovery): a furnished home about 20–25 minutes away (~32 km) usually serves a family better, a monthly rate well below a hotel held the same weeks, a full kitchen that’s genuinely part of the care, and separate space so the caregiver survives the course too.
The rest of this guide is the honest version of when each is right.
Casa Duna is a small collection of homes on Yas Island, run by two brothers. Many of our longer guests are here for treatment at Cleveland Clinic and the city’s other hospitals, long enough that we’ve learned what the drive is actually like at 7am, which building has the lift, and where you can still buy groceries at 11pm.
The direct answer: how far, and what wins over weeks
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi sits on Al Maryah Island, in the middle of the city. The connected hotel, Rosewood, is the closest possible bed. Everything else is a short drive. Here are the real distances from Yas Island, where our homes are, off-peak, so add a little for the morning rush:
| From Yas Island to… | Drive | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (Al Maryah Is.) | ~20–25 min | ~32 km |
| Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City | ~20–25 min | ~25–30 km |
| Burjeel / city hospitals | ~25–30 min | ~30–35 km |
(Always confirm your own hospital’s address, the city has several large ones and the names blur.)
Twenty minutes is not walking distance. For a long stay, that is usually the point. When you’re living somewhere for six weeks, you don’t want to live inside the hospital district, where every window frames the reason you’re there. A short drive that ends somewhere green and quiet is what lets you sleep and come back useful in the morning.
When the connected hotel is the right call, we’ll say it plainly
Book the Rosewood, or another Al Maryah hotel, if any of these are true:
- The patient can’t reliably travel even 20 minutes, severe mobility limits, a fragile post-operative window, or same-day multiple visits.
- The stay is genuinely short, a few nights of tests and consults, then home.
- Someone needs to be at the bedside in minutes, at any hour.
Cleveland Clinic’s Patient Hospitality team keeps a list of hotels with discounted rates for patients’ families, and there’s a tram for visitors staying nearby. For the acute, short, must-be-close situation, that infrastructure exists for good reason. Use it.
When a home wins, which is most stays over a week
Somewhere around the 7-to-10-night mark, the maths and the toll both flip. Over weeks it isn’t close:
| Over a treatment stay | Hotel near the clinic | A furnished home |
|---|---|---|
| Cost over 30 nights | Per-night, and it climbs fast | Monthly rate, far less per night |
| A real kitchen | Room service for weeks | Cook your own food |
| Food | Restaurant menus, every day | Yours entirely, halal home cooking, whatever the diet has to be |
| Laundry | Paid, per item | In-home machine |
| Room to breathe | One room, together | Separate bedroom and living space |
| Feeling human | Always a patient’s family | You feel like you live somewhere |
Two lines in that table matter more than families expect.
The kitchen. If your care team has given you rules about food, and they often do, a kitchen is the difference between following them easily and negotiating with a waiter twice a day. It’s also the difference between eating on your own schedule and eating on a restaurant’s. Whatever the diet needs to be, at home it’s simply yours.
The caregiver is the second patient. The one doing the driving, the translating, the 3am pharmacy runs, they burn out, and when they do, the patient loses their advocate. A door that closes, a room that’s theirs, a few quiet lengths of a pool at the end of a hard day. That’s not indulgence. It’s what keeps them standing through week five and week six.
What a Casa Duna home is like for a Cleveland Clinic stay
We’ll be plain rather than salesy. The home we’d most likely put you in is the Canal View, in Water’s Edge, one of our homes on Yas Island, in a low-rise, canal-front residential community. Not a tower, not a party building. It sleeps four, with a full kitchen, in-home laundry, a separate bedroom and living room, and a pool downstairs. People walk the canal in the evening. There’s a supermarket minutes away for the groceries you’ll actually be cooking.
You’re ~20–25 minutes of clear highway from Cleveland Clinic, almost all of it on the main road, with no city-centre crawl, and Zayed International Airport is the closest airport to us, which matters on the days no one has energy to spare. Tell us your flight time and we will tell you what the drive is actually like at that hour.
What tends to matter to families here is what a good host quietly takes off your plate:
- You arrive to a home that already works, bills on, wifi running, everything set, so the only thing you manage is the treatment.
- A monthly rate, not a nightly one, priced to be lived in.
- Room to change plans, because medical plans always change. You deal with a person, usually replying the same day, not an OTA’s cancellation robot.
- Straight answers to the awkward logistics, a home the patient won’t face stairs to reach on a bad day, a home-care nurse visiting, medication that needs refrigerating. Ask before you book. We’ll tell you honestly whether the home fits.
We’re DCT-licensed (permit CN-5654594 / PER25000250), rated ★5.0 across 25 verified guest reviews, so the boring, load-bearing trust is already handled.
Frequently asked questions
Where should a patient’s family stay near Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi? For a short stay or if you must be steps from the ward, the connected Rosewood Abu Dhabi on Al Maryah Island. For a stay of a week or more, a furnished home about 20–25 minutes away usually serves better, far lower cost over weeks, a full kitchen, and separate space to actually rest.
How far is Yas Island from Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi? About 20–25 minutes by car (~32 km), almost entirely on one highway with no city-centre traffic.
Is there a hotel connected to Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi? Yes, the Rosewood Abu Dhabi connects by a dedicated corridor, with a visitor tram. It’s the right choice when you need to be at the bedside within minutes.
Is a hotel or an apartment better for a long treatment stay? For one or two nights, a hotel. From roughly 7–10 nights onward, a furnished home usually wins on cost, a real kitchen, laundry, and room for the caregiver to rest too.
Can we cook our own food? Yes, a full kitchen, which for many long stays is the single most useful feature. Cook halal at home, follow whatever diet you’ve been given, and eat like people instead of ordering room service for six weeks.
Is there a monthly rate? Yes, stays of 28+ nights are billed at a monthly long-stay rate, materially lower per night, with bills, wifi and housekeeping handled. Ask us for a quote for your dates.
What if treatment gets extended or ends early? Plans change; we build for it. Message us as soon as you know, and we adjust the stay rather than penalise you.
Can a home-care nurse visit, or can we refrigerate medication? Yes to both, just tell us in advance so access, parking and any cold-chain needs are sorted.
In short
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi is on Al Maryah Island; Rosewood is the connected, steps-away option for short or must-be-close stays. For a stay measured in weeks, a furnished home about 20–25 minutes away (~32 km) usually serves a family better, a monthly rate well below a hotel held the same weeks, a full kitchen, laundry, and separate space so the caregiver survives the course too. Casa Duna’s homes on Yas Island sit at that distance, ★5.0 and DCT-licensed.
The place you stay is the part of a medical trip you control most, and it quietly decides whether the caregiver reaches the end of treatment intact. Give it more than the last ten minutes. And if we’re honestly not right for your situation, tell us what you need, we’d sooner point you somewhere better than leave you stuck.
Request a long-stay quote for your treatment dates →, or read the full guide to a medical long stay in Abu Dhabi →.
Casa Duna is a collection of homes on Yas Island, run by two brothers. We host stays, not treatment, follow your own care team for anything clinical.
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