Al Bustan Palace
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20 reviews
April 7
Overall, the hotel left a very pleasant impression. The score is between 4 and 5, I'll put 5, but I'll tell you what I didn't like.
Good:
The atmosphere in the hotel. The staff is very friendly and attentive. Without helpfulness, with dignity, but you feel at every step the desire to make your vacation pleasant and comfortable, as if you really came to visit someone.
The heated pool was very pleasant at the start of the season.
Comfortable pillow-top beds. There is a decent coffee machine in the room, there are decaf capsules. Lots of built-in wardrobes, good sound insulation (which is rare, even in decent hotels).
The hotel's guests deserve special mention. With the exception of a couple of pompous British Rednecks, everyone is very polite, smiling, and friendly. Almost everyone has books, even teenagers! I can't remember where I last saw this :)
The kitchen is beautiful. Breakfast at first glance seems a little meager, but you can order something separately in the kitchen and it warms up a lot, lots of fruits, coconuts. The Pavilion beach restaurant deserves special mention. A great dinner. Dishes, serving, service.
Special thanks for the lawn chairs.
Clean, well-groomed, safe, beautiful. You can order a taxi at the reception, someone wrote in the reviews that the price tag for a taxi "from the hotel" is multiplied by two and it is better to use applications, we did not see a difference in price.
Oman is a very safe country, the locals are friendly. At insta, we met a local uncle who organized a boat trip to the sea to watch fluorescent algae, and the next day invited us to his house for dinner, introduced us to his father :)
I didn't like it:
Very small rooms. It's impossible to fit into the bathroom together, but for some reason they crammed a bidet in there. There is no separate shower, the shower is in the bathtub. The amalgam is peeling off the mirrors, the bathroom has some smeared chips, and some of the mirror hangers are chipped. The panel with the toilet buttons is loose.
The balcony is sooo small. There are two chairs, but if you sit on one of them, you will practically rest your knees against the fence.
The dishes in the restaurant are chipped.
Everything outside the hotel can be described as "we don't give a damn what's going on there." You go beyond the playground (it's on the edge of the territory), and there's some garbage piled up right by the road, concrete blocks, remnants of metal structures, cut branches, broken glass, the road turns into something pit-like. That is, you understand that civilization has ended behind the checkpoint.
The first couple of days I was strongly triggered by these shortcomings, but then you somehow get involved in this slow, measured rhythm of the country and it becomes "no matter" the little things :))
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April 3
Oman turned out to be the place where I really exhaled.
We arrived as a family, and from the very first minutes everything inside began to slow down.
Clean, calm, unobtrusive. Even at the airport, there is no chaos, no fuss. Just quiet and comfortable.
But the most important thing is the condition that lasted all the days.
The tranquility here is as if in the air. It's in the people, in the landscapes, in the rhythm of life. No one is in a hurry, everything flows smoothly and freely.
And you suddenly start breathing deeper yourself.
The people here are special. Friendly, respectful and dignified.
You don't feel like you're in the scenery or "at the resort."
You're just visiting a country that knows how to be real.
And also — beauty. Simple, clear.
Mountains, sea, palm trees, white houses. Nothing superfluous. And everything is perfectly in its place.
Our Al Bustan Palace Hotel, A Ritz Carlton Hotel, was exactly what an ideal vacation should be:
lots of space, quiet, friendly people, and the feeling that you were being taken care of — but very delicately, without interfering with being yourself.
Oman is for those who are tired of "too much".
I sincerely advise you. Perhaps you will find your own silence here too.
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December 7, 2024
The chic, unique hotel is located on Al Bustan Avenue, next to the parliament. There is a private beach, 5 pools, including a children's pool. Children's playground. SPA area, followed by access to the women's beach with its own bar. There are many restaurants and bars, and there are several shops on the ground floor. And you can write about lobio separately, the architecture of the palace in general.
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