Riyadh Day Rooms for Visiting Families: Season 2026
A practical family guide to Riyadh Season 2026 day rooms, day passes, and short hotel visits. It compares the published room, suite, pool, gym, and meal offers we can verify, explains why duration matters as much as price, and shows how to check guest conditions before you book for a family trip from the Eastern Province, Jeddah, or Qassim.
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If you are coming to Riyadh for Season 2026 with family, the first useful question is not simply “which hotel is cheapest?” It is whether the published offer matches the way your family will actually use the day. A short rest between Season events, a pool break for children, a quiet room for luggage and prayer, or a private suite for a larger family all solve different problems. Day-use pricing only makes sense when the duration, the admission conditions, and the party size all fit together.
For Season 2026, the opening date is verified from the Saudi Press Agency announcement dated 2026-09-26: Riyadh Season 2026 opens on Wednesday, October 21, for a 10-week program. The same season calendar also includes WWE Crown Jewel on Saturday, November 7 at Riyadh Season Stadium at KAFD. Those are useful anchors because they tell you the city will be busy, and that rest windows may matter as much as the event itself. Source: https://www.spa.gov.sa/en/N2686677 and https://corporate.wwe.com/about/news/2026/09-01-2026
This guide stays strictly with published facts. It does not assume universal room occupancy, it does not invent nearby claims, and it does not treat child access as automatic room entitlement. When a facility offers a 60-minute, 240-minute, or 480-minute booking, that interval is part of the offer and must fit inside your intended use. For family planning, that difference matters more than the headline price.
What Season 2026 changes for families
Season timing changes demand patterns. Once Riyadh Season opens on October 21, families from the Eastern Province, Jeddah, and Qassim may be arriving for specific performances, championships, and entertainment experiences rather than for a standard city weekend. That creates a practical need for flexible rest options, because a family can be out for several hours and still need a place to regroup before the next appointment or before heading home.
The verified public material tells us that the 2026 season is a 10-week program. It also confirms a major sports-entertainment date in November. That does not tell us traffic times, neighborhood convenience, or how far any hotel is from a venue, and I will not invent those details. What it does tell us is that the city’s hospitality demand is likely to be uneven, so a published day-room or day-use slot is more valuable when it can be matched to a real event window.
For a family audience, the biggest planning mistake is to book the wrong kind of access. A pool pass is not the same as a room. A 60-minute meeting room is not a family day room. A 240-minute suite booking is not automatically the same as an overnight stay. The safest way to think about Season 2026 is to line up the booking interval with the actual family schedule, not with a vague idea of “spending the day at the hotel.”
How to read a day-room offer without guessing
The published FUNDIQI day-room and suite offers in the published details are simple, but the simplicity can be misleading if you rush. A listed price is attached to a specific category, a specific duration, and a specific unit. For example, a day room at Lavera Inn Hotel is listed at SAR 119.6 for 240 minutes, per booking, while a suite at the same hotel is listed at SAR 179.6 for 240 minutes, per booking. Those are not hourly tariffs, and they should not be divided into invented per-hour prices.
When a duration is stated, it matters. A 240-minute booking is four hours. A 360-minute booking would be six hours. A 480-minute booking would be eight hours. But you should only use those lengths when they are actually published for the offer you are reading. In the published details, the day-room and suite durations are 240 minutes, and the other published intervals are 60 minutes for meals, pools, gyms, and meeting rooms. That means the family day-room choices here are the 240-minute options, not a general right to choose any longer stay.
The key distinction is between a room booking and a facility pass. A room or suite can provide a private resting place, but the published facts do not state occupancy limits for these day rooms. In contrast, some facility passes have explicit child conditions, such as the pool entry at AWFAD Riyadh Hotel, where children aged 5 to 12 need a child voucher and children above 12 need an adult voucher. Never assume a child-friendly line means unlimited people in the room.
The verified Season 2026 hotel pages
The supplied FUNDIQI facts include direct English pages for Lavera Inn Hotel and Visit Hotel. The Lavera Inn Hotel family-relevant pages are https://fundiqi.com/en/experience/lavera-inn-riyadh-day_room, https://fundiqi.com/en/experience/lavera-inn-riyadh-suite, and https://fundiqi.com/en/experience/lavera-inn-riyadh-women-pool-health-club. Visit Hotel’s pages are https://fundiqi.com/en/experience/visit-hotel-riyadh-restaurant, https://fundiqi.com/en/experience/visit-hotel-riyadh-buffet, https://fundiqi.com/en/experience/visit-hotel-riyadh-pool, and https://fundiqi.com/en/experience/visit-hotel-riyadh-gym.
These pages are useful because they show the published category, price, minutes, and unit. For Lavera Inn Hotel, the day room is SAR 119.6 for 240 minutes per booking and the suite is SAR 179.6 for 240 minutes per booking. For Visit Hotel, the pool is SAR 39 per booking for 60 minutes, the gym is SAR 26 per booking for 60 minutes, the buffet is SAR 46 per person for 60 minutes, and the restaurant lunch is SAR 130 per person for 60 minutes with lunch service from 12:00 to 15:00.
The listed addresses are also visible in the published details. Lavera Inn Hotel is at 3619 Imam Abdullah Ibn Saud Ibn Abdulaziz Rd, Al Hamra, 8479, Riyadh 13217. Visit Hotel is listed as Riyadh 13321, Saudi Arabia. I am repeating only what is supplied, because this guide must not invent a more detailed location story or claim proximity to Season venues without evidence.
Lavera Inn Hotel: the clearest day-room comparison
Among the published options, Lavera Inn Hotel gives the cleanest room-versus-suite comparison. The day room is SAR 119.6 for 240 minutes, per booking. The suite is SAR 179.6 for 240 minutes, per booking. On the face of it, the suite costs SAR 60 more for the same 240-minute interval. That is simple arithmetic from the published figures; it is not an invented discount claim and it does not tell you anything about size, bed count, or maximum occupancy.
Because the published details do not state the room capacity, the suite capacity, or any room-specific child policy, you should not infer how many family members can use either booking. For a family, this is the most important unknown to resolve before payment. A larger named category does not automatically mean a larger usable party size, and an “all” audience label does not replace occupancy rules.
The practical value of the Lavera Inn day room is that it is a 240-minute published block, which is long enough for a midday reset, a quiet break after breakfast or lunch, and a controlled family pause before or after event attendance. The suite may be better if a family wants a little more comfort for a longer stay within the same four-hour window, but the published facts do not tell us whether the physical difference justifies the extra SAR 60 for your specific family.
Visit Hotel: useful when your need is not a room
Visit Hotel does not show a published day room or suite in the published details, but it does show a set of short, practical day-use services. The pool is SAR 39 per booking for 60 minutes. The gym is SAR 26 per booking for 60 minutes. The buffet is SAR 46 per person for 60 minutes. The restaurant lunch is SAR 130 per person for 60 minutes, with lunch service from 12:00 to 15:00. Those are helpful if your family wants to combine a meal or a simple exercise session with a brief hotel stop rather than a longer room booking.
This matters for Season 2026 because not every family needs a full day room. Some families from Jeddah or Qassim may arrive with a meal plan and just need a place to eat, rest briefly, and continue. Others may have children who need a pool break but not an entire suite. Visit Hotel gives you a way to compare small, published, time-bound services without assuming the property offers the same day-room format as Lavera Inn.
Still, you should keep the unit in mind. The pool and gym are per booking, while the buffet and restaurant are per person. That means the budget effect can change quickly with family size. A per-person lunch for several family members is a different decision from a per-booking pool or gym slot, and you should not mix those up when estimating the full cost of a stop at the hotel.
Pool visits are not room stays
Pool offers are useful for families, but they are not a substitute for day rooms unless you only need water time. The published details include two verified pool-related offers in Riyadh from Cobone: Riyadh Marriott Hotel’s Pool & Gym Day Pass and AWFAD Riyadh Hotel’s One Day Pool Access. Neither is a FUNDIQI day room. They are external offers, clearly outside FUNDIQI, and they should be treated as external published options only.
The Riyadh Marriott Hotel offer is SAR 159 for 1-Day Gym & Pool Access for 1 Person. It includes full-day access to the fitness center, access to the swimming pool, modern gym equipment, premium five-star hotel facilities, and it is valid daily with timings from 6:00 AM to 12:00 Midnight. The page states that it is valid for men, women, and children. Source: https://www.cobone.com/en/deals/auto-riyadh/pool-and-gym-access-at-riyadh-marriott/219263
The AWFAD Riyadh Hotel offer is SAR 77 for adult pool access and SAR 38 for the child option. It states a day pass with pool access, outdoor seating, washrooms and shower rooms, towels, lockers, and free parking. Its timings are men from 4:30 pm to 7 pm and women from 11 am to 4 pm. It also states child policy details, including a maximum of 2 children below 5 years free per adult voucher, children aged 5 to 12 years requiring a child voucher, and children above 12 years requiring an adult voucher. Source: https://www.cobone.com/en/deals/activities-riyadh/1-pool-access-awfad-riyadh-hotel/214882
Why the child rules matter more than a marketing line
Families often see the phrase “children welcome” and think the rest will be flexible. The verified facts show that this is not safe. At Lavera Inn Hotel’s pool and health club, children are mentioned as allowed, but the more important point is the admission period. The description states that Tuesday and Wednesday are women-only throughout the operating day, 05:00 to 01:00 the next morning, and on other days women are 17:00–21:00 while men are outside that period during operating hours. The entire visit must fit inside the admission period.
That pattern is repeated in another way at AWFAD Riyadh Hotel. The offer is not just “children allowed”; it defines age thresholds, free-child limits, and the need for the correct voucher type. This is exactly why family planning requires more than reading a headline. You need to know who is allowed, how long the access lasts, and whether the family can complete the full visit inside that interval.
For room bookings, the published details do not provide child-age rules or room occupancy caps, so we cannot claim one. The correct approach is to separate what the facility admits from what the room can hold. Admission to a pool or health club does not prove room capacity, and room category does not automatically prove pool eligibility. These are separate checks, and the source material treats them separately.
The 60-minute options are not “small rooms”
Several published offers in the published details are 60 minutes long, and it is easy to underestimate them. A 60-minute booking can be enough for a meal, a meeting, a gym session, or a brief pool visit, but it is not a substitute for a four-hour day room. The exact minutes are part of the product. You should not stretch a short service into a family rest plan that it was never meant to support.
The FUNDIQI offers clearly show this difference. Lavera Inn Hotel’s day room and suite are 240 minutes. Its restaurant coffee and dessert is 60 minutes, its Saudi breakfast is 60 minutes, its pool is 60 minutes, its spa is 60 minutes, and its gym is 60 minutes. Visit Hotel’s restaurant lunch, buffet, pool, gym, and meeting room are also arranged around 60-minute service windows in the published details. That is useful because it lets you separate rest, food, and exercise options cleanly.
If you are traveling from the Eastern Province, Jeddah, or Qassim, a 60-minute slot can work as a stopover tool, but only if it fits the family itinerary. It is better for a tightly scheduled pause than for unpacking luggage, managing children, or waiting between multiple event tickets. The family mistake is to treat a one-hour service like a flexible half-day stay. The published facts do not support that assumption.
When a 240-minute room makes more sense than a 60-minute pass
A 240-minute booking is the most relevant published interval for families looking for a true day room in the published details. Four hours is enough time to sit down, change clothes, let children rest, organize bags, and recover between activities without committing to an overnight stay. That is the core value of a day room. The published Lavera Inn Hotel room and suite are both set at this 240-minute length.
The other published 240-minute offer in the published details is Lavera Inn Hotel’s women’s pool and health club access, which is SAR 200 per person for 240 minutes. That is not a room, but it demonstrates why the interval matters. A four-hour health-club visit can be attractive for one person or a group with a clear purpose, yet it is still different from a room where a family can sit together privately. You should not swap one for the other just because the minute count looks similar.
The safest way to compare a 240-minute booking with a 60-minute one is to ask what your family needs to happen during those hours. If the answer is “one meal and leave,” then a restaurant or buffet may be better. If the answer is “rest, shower, children’s break, and regrouping,” then a day room is the better published fit. This is where the family use case matters more than the price per booking alone.
How to compare price fairly without inventing hourly rates
Price comparison should use the published unit exactly as shown. Do not split a 240-minute room into an invented hourly rate unless you are only doing straightforward arithmetic for your own understanding. The published day room at Lavera Inn Hotel is SAR 119.6 per booking for 240 minutes. The suite is SAR 179.6 per booking for 240 minutes. Visit Hotel’s pool is SAR 39 per booking for 60 minutes. These are the actual published structures.
For example, it is valid to say the Lavera Inn suite costs SAR 60 more than the day room for the same 240 minutes. It is also valid to say the Visit Hotel restaurant lunch at SAR 130 per person is a different budget category from its SAR 39 pool booking per booking. What is not valid is to claim a universal hourly tariff that the supplier never published. The offers are specific, time-bound, and unit-bound.
For family budgeting, the best comparison is often “what does this give me for the exact window we need?” A four-hour suite may be better value than a one-hour meal if your family needs private rest. A one-hour pool pass may be better value than a four-hour room if you only want water time. There is no single winner; the right booking depends on the family’s actual schedule.
The external pool options: useful, but separate from FUNDIQI booking claims
Because the user asked about day rooms for families, the external pool offers matter only as comparison points. They are not FUNDIQI room inventory. Riyadh Marriott Hotel’s Cobone pass is an external published day pass with a SAR 159 price for one person, valid daily from 6:00 AM to 12:00 Midnight, and it includes gym and pool access. AWFAD Riyadh Hotel’s Cobone pool access is also external, with separate adult and child pricing and specified men’s and women’s time windows.
These examples are useful because they show how a hotel can price a day experience without offering a day room in the same excerpt. That comparison helps families understand that a pool pass and a room stay are different products with different units and different guest rules. If you only need one or two hours of structured activity, an external pass may be sufficient. If you need rest and privacy, a room or suite remains the more appropriate category.
Remember that these are timestamped observations from external offers, not unconditional availability and not FUNDIQI booking claims. Their terms, dates, and quantities can change. The page on Cobone even notes that original prices were checked at the time of publishing and may vary later. That is why the safest approach is to use them for comparison, then verify the live offer before paying.
What to ask before booking for a family
Before you book a day room, suite, or day pass, you need answers to a few practical questions. First, what is the exact duration, and does your family schedule fit inside it? Second, is the price per booking or per person? Third, are children explicitly allowed, and if so, does that affect entry only or also room occupancy? Fourth, are there any time windows by gender or day of week? These questions come directly from the published facts we have.
For the options in this guide, the biggest known difference is that the room and suite at Lavera Inn Hotel are per booking, while meals at Visit Hotel are per person. The pool and gym offers at Visit Hotel are also per booking, but the restaurant lunch is per person. At AWFAD Riyadh Hotel, the child pricing and age thresholds are explicit, which is valuable because it prevents misunderstandings. A family booking should never rely on casual assumptions.
If you are arranging a stop during Riyadh Season, ask yourself what the family really needs to happen at the hotel. If it is sleep, privacy, and unpacking, choose the room-type offer. If it is one meal, choose the meal. If it is water time, choose the pool pass. If it is a short reset between events, look for the 240-minute options first, because the published facts show that those are the closest to a real day-use stay.
How families from Eastern Province, Jeddah, and Qassim can think about the trip
The user asked specifically for families visiting from the Eastern Province, Jeddah, and Qassim. The most honest advice is that these are all different travel situations, but the same booking logic still applies. A family arriving for a Season event may want to rest before an evening program. Another family may arrive early and need a place to wait comfortably. A third may need a daytime reset before continuing onward. The offer should be chosen around the timetable, not around the city of origin.
Because I must not invent travel times, I will not claim that any one origin is “close” or “far” from Riyadh in this article. What matters is that a family arriving from any of those regions may need a predictable, bounded hotel block rather than an open-ended overnight reservation. That is exactly why the published 240-minute room and suite options matter. They are structured rest periods, not general promises of all-day availability.
If your family is driving or flying in around a single Season appointment, a brief lunch or pool stop may be enough. If you are planning a sequence of events, the day room is safer because it creates a private fallback space. That choice becomes more important in a busy festival window, and the Season 2026 opening date makes that timing real rather than hypothetical.
The caution on availability and booking windows
Published offers are date- and party-dependent, not unconditional availability. That matters during Season 2026 because demand can be concentrated around major dates like opening week and the WWE event on November 7. A visible offer tells you that the product exists. It does not tell you that every slot is open on every day, for every family size, at every time.
The supplied Cobone material also notes that prior booking is recommended or required for some offers, and that availability is subject to booking slot selection. For the AWFAD pool pass, prior booking is required 24 hours in advance and early bookings have priority. For Riyadh Marriott, prior booking is recommended and subject to availability. These details are not decorative; they are part of the buying decision.
For FUNDIQI bookings, the safe habit is to check the exact page, the listed duration, the listed unit, and any audience note before making a payment decision. If the page is silent about something important, that silence should be treated as unknown rather than filled with assumptions. That is especially true for party size, room capacity, and gender or child policies that are not stated in the room listing.
Meal stops can be smarter than room stops
Not every family needs a day room. Sometimes the right choice is a meal with a clear service time, especially if the main goal is to rest the family between Season activities. Visit Hotel’s restaurant lunch is SAR 130 per person with service from 12:00 to 15:00, and the buffet is SAR 46 per person. Lavera Inn Hotel also offers coffee and dessert for SAR 33 per person and a special Saudi breakfast for SAR 39 per person, each listed for 60 minutes.
These are not room substitutes, but they are useful because they give families a way to stage the day. A meal stop can break up a busy schedule without paying for a four-hour room. If children are tired but not in need of a private rest space, a meal may be sufficient. If the family wants to sit together, reorder bags, and plan the next event, a room is still better.
The important point is to match the price unit with the family need. A per-person meal can become expensive quickly for larger families, while a per-booking room or pool entry may be more efficient. But the room is only efficient if the family actually needs room time. That is why this guide keeps returning to the same question: what will your family do during the booked interval?
A practical shortlist from the supplied facts
If you want a simple shortlist from the verified facts, start with Lavera Inn Hotel’s day room at SAR 119.6 for 240 minutes and its suite at SAR 179.6 for 240 minutes. Those are the most direct family rest options in the supplied FUNDIQI pages. Then look at Visit Hotel’s pool and gym if your family only needs short activity windows, or its lunch and buffet if your goal is food rather than private rest.
If you are comparing external passes, use Riyadh Marriott’s SAR 159 day pass for a broad full-day gym-and-pool experience and AWFAD’s SAR 77 adult pool access with the child option at SAR 38 for more time-specific pool use. But keep those offers separate from FUNDIQI room bookings because they are different products from different sources.
The shortlist should not be built on assumptions about size or “luxury” labels. It should be built on what the published offer gives you: minutes, unit, price, audience, and any guest conditions. That is the only way to compare family-friendly day use fairly and avoid booking something that sounds right but does not fit the day.
How to avoid the most common booking mistakes
The first mistake is choosing by price alone. A lower price can be a worse fit if the duration is too short or the unit is wrong for the family. The second mistake is confusing per person with per booking. The third is assuming children are automatically allowed into a room because they are allowed into a pool or vice versa. The fourth is treating a one-hour service as if it were a rest day.
Another common mistake is inventing a standard rule where none exists. The published details do not support a universal 17–21 rule for all facilities. Instead, each facility’s own published schedule applies. Lavera Inn Hotel’s pool and health club has specific women-only and men-outside-that-period conditions, while AWFAD’s pool has men’s and women’s time windows. Those are not interchangeable.
The best defense is to read the line that names the duration, the unit, and the conditions. If the line says 240 minutes, treat it as 240 minutes. If it says per booking, do not divide it into per-person logic unless the source does so. If it says children welcome, do not infer unlimited occupancy. Those simple habits prevent most bad family bookings.
FAQ: Is a day room better than a pool pass for a family?
It depends on the purpose of the stop. If your family needs privacy, luggage handling, a quiet break, or a place to regroup, a day room is usually the better fit. In the published details, Lavera Inn Hotel’s day room and suite both provide 240 minutes, which is the most room-like family rest interval in the dataset. If the family only needs water or gym time, a pool or gym pass may be more efficient.
A pool pass is useful when the goal is activity rather than private rest. For example, Visit Hotel’s pool is SAR 39 per booking for 60 minutes, and Riyadh Marriott’s external day pass is SAR 159 per person with pool and gym access for the full day. Those are legitimate options, but they are not room stays and should not be treated as such.
So the real answer is not “which is better” in the abstract. It is “which one matches the family’s task during those hours?” For a busy Season day, that task can change from meal to rest to activity. The right choice is the one that fits the moment.
FAQ: Can I assume children change the room capacity?
No. Children allowed does not equal unlimited occupancy, and it does not automatically modify room capacity. The published details explicitly show child rules only for certain pool offers, such as AWFAD Riyadh Hotel’s child voucher conditions. For the FUNDIQI room and suite listings, the published details do not state capacity. That means capacity remains unknown unless the live page or booking flow specifies it.
This is important because families often bring a simple mental rule: if children are welcome, the room must be family-sized. That is not safe. Room size, bedding, fire-safety, and hotel policy all matter, and none of those are given in the supplied room facts. Do not assume because a hotel has family-friendly services that every booking can absorb any number of people.
The correct approach is to check the published room details before payment and confirm that the full party fits the room’s stated terms. If the listing does not tell you, ask through the booking process rather than guessing. Silence is not permission.
FAQ: Why does 240 minutes appear so often in day rooms?
In the published details, 240 minutes is the main published day-room interval because both the Lavera Inn Hotel day room and suite are listed at 240 minutes. That is a practical four-hour block, which is long enough to be useful for family rest without turning into an overnight stay. It is also long enough for a structured break between events during Riyadh Season.
The other common interval in the published details is 60 minutes for meals, pools, gyms, and meeting rooms. That shorter block works for a targeted activity, but it does not give you the same kind of private reset as a day room. The contrast between 60 and 240 minutes is really the contrast between a service stop and a rest stop.
If a 360-minute or 480-minute room is ever published, you should compare it on its own terms. But in the provided verified facts, those longer room intervals are not published for the listed room offers. Do not invent them because they sound convenient.
FAQ: Are the published prices final and unconditional?
They are published prices, but they are not unconditional guarantees of future availability. The FUNDIQI pages show VAT-inclusive amounts and specific durations. The external Cobone pages also state that all prices shown are inclusive of VAT where applicable. However, the existence of a listed price does not mean every date and family party size will be available at that price.
That is especially true in Season 2026, where demand may be high around opening week and around major events like WWE Crown Jewel. Availability, booking slots, and party-specific acceptance are part of the offer logic. A family should expect to verify the live offer before payment, rather than relying only on a cached or copied page.
So the answer is: price is real, but availability is conditional. That distinction protects families from frustration and avoids treating a published offer as a promise of open inventory.
Source notes and direct links
Primary seasonal context comes from the Saudi Press Agency announcement for Riyadh Season 2026 opening on 2026-10-21: https://www.spa.gov.sa/en/N2686677. A second official seasonal marker is the WWE announcement that Crown Jewel will be held on Saturday, November 7 at Riyadh Season Stadium at KAFD: https://corporate.wwe.com/about/news/2026/09-01-2026. These sources help anchor the timing of the guide.
The relevant FUNDIQI pages in English are the Lavera Inn Hotel day room, suite, women’s pool and health club, restaurant, buffet, pool, gym, and meeting pages: https://fundiqi.com/en/experience/lavera-inn-riyadh-day_room, https://fundiqi.com/en/experience/lavera-inn-riyadh-suite, https://fundiqi.com/en/experience/lavera-inn-riyadh-women-pool-health-club, https://fundiqi.com/en/experience/lavera-inn-riyadh-restaurant, https://fundiqi.com/en/experience/lavera-inn-riyadh-buffet, https://fundiqi.com/en/experience/lavera-inn-riyadh-pool, https://fundiqi.com/en/experience/lavera-inn-riyadh-gym, and https://fundiqi.com/en/experience/lavera-inn-riyadh-meeting. Visit Hotel’s pages are https://fundiqi.com/en/experience/visit-hotel-riyadh-restaurant, https://fundiqi.com/en/experience/visit-hotel-riyadh-buffet, https://fundiqi.com/en/experience/visit-hotel-riyadh-pool, https://fundiqi.com/en/experience/visit-hotel-riyadh-gym, and https://fundiqi.com/en/experience/visit-hotel-riyadh-meeting.
External comparison pages used only as outside examples are the Riyadh Marriott and AWFAD Cobone offers: https://www.cobone.com/en/deals/auto-riyadh/pool-and-gym-access-at-riyadh-marriott/219263 and https://www.cobone.com/en/deals/activities-riyadh/1-pool-access-awfad-riyadh-hotel/214882. For broader Riyadh planning and hotel browsing, the city guide and search pages are https://fundiqi.com/en/cities/riyadh and https://fundiqi.com/en/search. This article uses only the published details and does not add claims that are not visible in those sources.