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.

Al Khozama Hotel

00966 1 465 4650  www.al-khozama.com

Faisaliah Hotel
00966 1 273 2000  www.rosewoodhotels.com

Four Seasons Hotel
00966 1 211 5000  www.fourseasons.com

Minhal Holiday Inn
00966 1 478 2500  www.holidayinn-sa.com/riyadh

Olaya Holiday Inn
00966 1 461 2000  www.holidayinn-sa.com

Riyadh Intercontinental Hotel
00966 1 465 5000  riyadh@interconti.com
 

Riyadh Marriott Hotel

00966 1 477 9300  www.marriott.co/ruhsa

Sheraton Riyadh Hotel & Towers 
00966 1 454 330  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.