Hotels:-
All major international hotel groups have a presence here in Riyadh and are mainly located in the city center. All can be booked from outside Kingdom and most have a meet desk at the airport and can provide transport to the hotel.
Faisaliah Hotel                              00966 1 273 2000         www.rosewoodhotels.com

Four Seasons Hotel                       211 5000         www.fourseasons.com

Minhal Holiday Inn                        478 2500      www.holidayinn-sa.com/riyadh

Olaya Holiday Inn                         461 2000     www.holidayinn-sa.com

Riyadh Intercontinental Hotel       465 5000       riyadh@interconti.com
Riyadh Marriott Hotel                   477 9300         www.marriott.co/ruhsa

Sheraton Riyadh Hotel & Towers  454 3300         www.sheraton.com/riyadh

Compounds:-
Most western expatriates live in gated compounds and there is a multitude of them catering for all tastes and pockets. The compounds usually provide all furniture, utilities, sporting facilities, restaurants, mini-supermarkets, school busses and various other facilities depending on the price that you are prepared to pay. Following the recent terrorist problems most of them have fairly elaborate security in place.
A selection of the compounds available are :-

Arabian Homes :        www.arabian-homes.com.sa

Al Hamra Oasis Village     www.alhamra.com

Al Yamama Resort    www.alyamamaresort.com
Arizona Golf Resort:-  www.agr.com.sa
Cordoba Compound :- www.cordoba.com.sa

Villas:-
For those who don’t fancy living in an enclosed community there are large numbers of villas for rent, at reasonable rates, throughout the city. The better ones have any number of rooms that you require, sheltered parking, reasonable amount of garden and possibly a swimming pool. They don’t tend to be furnished but it does mean that you can have a house within a reasonable distance of your work as opposed to driving in from the outskirts of town.