Comments on: Popping to Oman for the weekend

By: Shannon in Melbourne

Shannon in Melbourne — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:41:06 +0000

Ladies, I’ve been and have paid for my stay and can’t say enough about it. Did anyone at the resort tell you how it was constructed? A: By the hands of the local community and predominantly from the rocks and palm fronds in the local area. Sure there are elements that have been brought in from asia, but by and large the cost is associated with what you get and how you get it. What Ibis hotel have you been to that you get your own butler, pool and bath the size that could fit the entire family?

Did you also know they grown their own veggies?

The Four Seasons is nice, but most of them are smack bang next to another chain hotel offering the same buffet and tired clichéd lounge singers. Six Senses doesn’t aim to fill that otherwise silent ambiance in it’s restaurants with such hideous infractions of the ears, it simply allows you to be at one with as much nature as is possible, but doing so ever so elegantly. It’s no wonder they coined the phrase ‘Barefoot luxury’.

If you want value for money with 100 screaming kids, waiters in formulaic uniforms then I suggest Travelodge.

Worth every dollar an dirham.

By: Cate in Cetona

Cate in Cetona — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:19:11 +0000

This is no excuse for their extortionate rates but, frankly, I feel that as residents of the southern Gulf we’re discriminated against when it comes to hotel (and flight) prices for I’m sure if you book a package from – say – Finland or Germany to Zighy Bay you’ll pay a mere fraction of what we were charged and have your flight included. Al Maha (another seriously nice though pricey property) is sometimes given away free to EK passengers on stop-over! (Consider that for another weekend when you’re feeling flush.) You know, I sat next to a man on the plane from Dubai to Rome the over week who had paid roughly half what I had yet he had come all the way from Brisbane!!!

By: helena

helena — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:51:15 +0000

yes, totally and utterly over-priced, we only paid 1/4 of the normal rate and still found it horrendously expensive. I agree, ridiculous, but I guess there must be people out there with the money. I heard one story of someone who thought prices were in dirhams not dollars, so 2000 dirhams a night. He got a hell of a shock when the bill arrived…
Hx

By: Cate in Cetona

Cate in Cetona — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:57:24 +0000

A nice enough place but – off the record – you didn’t think it hideously over-priced? In all our 40+ years of travelling, this is the hotel that we both reckon was the worst ever value.

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:36:27 +0000

Sounds like a wonderful weekend and hopefully not too hot (Brazilians aside!). I have been considering a trip to the resort myself so am glad to hear you all enjoyed it. Oman is certainly a special place.