Muscat’s premier five star occupies its own central stretch of the bay. Unlike most landmark resorts in the Middle East, this one rather hides its light under a bushel. First impressions are of a refreshingly understated, less-is-more recep…

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Rugged mountains and desert provide the perfect backdrop for this resort set on Al Jissah Bay. The rooms, spread over three separate properties, are decorated in traditional Omani style, many offering sea views. A wide choice of restaurants…

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Enfolded by an amphitheatre of honey-coloured mountains, this award-winning resort sits on an immaculate crescent of white sand beside sea the colour of lapis and opal. The location is truly the stuff of dreams, and – this being a Six Sense…

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This luxury clifftop retreat high in the Hajjar Mountains enjoys what must rank among the most spectacular vistas of any hotel in the world – a vast panorama of precipitous canyons and soaring desert ridges. You can soak up the views throug…

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Kempinski, Europe’s oldest luxury hotel chain, has a reputation for uncompromising opulence, and that’s precisely what you get at Muscat’s newest five-star. It occupies six kilometres of prime seafront, close to the airport in the leafy sub…

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This is our favourite resort in the Sultanate’s second city, and it’s not hard to see why. Spread along a beautiful palm-fringed beach, it's rooms and whitewashed pool villas are designed in a fresh, contemporary style, but have a distincti…

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For once, the name is no hyperbole. This lavish retreat outside Muscat really is a palace – or was – having originally been built for Sultan Qaboos. Clearly no expense was spared in its construction. Golden domes surmount a grandiose, turre…

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Staff in traditional garb proffering dates and cardamom coffee greet new arrivals at this splendidly situated four-star hotel, which sits on a high natural balcony in the Hajar Mountains overlooking a magnificent sweep of canyons and craggy…

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Recently featured in the BBC 2 series ‘Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby’, the Anantara is one of Asia’s most desirable properties and, quite simply, a place of superlatives – a mountain hideaway for the élite of the Gulf States, and an…

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This modern, three-star chain hotel in Sur is the most comfortable option in town. Although it wouldn’t win any architecture or design awards, it is efficiently run and maintained to a high standard. The rooms are all en suite, pleasantly f…

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This luxurious tent camp run by the Omani government is the only accommodation actually inside the Ras Al Jiz Turtle Reserve, which allows you to be in situ at dawn, when much of the action takes place on the beach below. Nestled out of the…

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Our first-choice property for exploring Wadi Nakht and the Jebel Shams region is this strikingly situated eco resort, which sits at 1400m on the high slopes of a grandiose desert valley. As its name implies, the panoramas are the chief sell…

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