Sheraton Oman ****

The Sheraton Oman Hotel is a popular landmark that stands powerfully amid the hustle and bustle of the capital city. Located 32km away from the airport and surrounded by Oman’s rich mountainous landscape, the Sheraton Oman Hotel is in the heart of the Commercial Business District of Ruwi and close to most of the prominent landmarks of Muscat, making it an ideal venue for both business and leisure travellers.

Within walking distance are the offices of HSBC, Bank Muscat, Muscat Securities Market & Commission, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Oman Chamber of Commerce & Industry and the Central Bank of Oman.

The hotel offers 217 redesigned guestrooms including two Executive floors and 24 deluxe suites. The newly refurbished rooms feature Sheraton’s standard ‘Sweet Sleeper Beds’, ensuring a comfortable and relaxing night’s sleep. All rooms include data port connection, satellite TV and radio, IDD voice mail phones, hairdryer and mini bar. Non-smoking rooms are also available. Executive rooms and Suite guests have access to the Executive Lounge throughout the day.

The Executive Floor Lounge has a state of the art private boardroom that can sit six people and fully staffed. The lounge offers a full secretarial service covering faxing; photocopying; reconfirmation/changes of flight tickets; Internet access and much more such as an extensive Video library. The lounge offers refreshments during the day and cocktails every evening with our compliments.

Additional in room facilities include:

• VIP amenities
• Fax machines
• Video player
• Radio/alarm clock
• Trouser press
• Personal safe box

Executive Floor guests receive a VIP service starting with their own check in and check out desk in the Executive Floor lounge.

Restaurants:

• Green Mountain restaurant: The hotel’s all day dinning restaurant is famous for serving sumptuous buffet breakfast, lunch and various theme nights for dinner, including Muscat’s most popular “Seafood Night” held every Wednesday
• La Mamma restaurant: Our Italian restaurant is ideal for entertaining guests over lunch or dinner, especially as it offer speciality Italian dishes in a cosy and refreshing environment
• Le Croissant Café offers a central lobby setting for a light meeting over Coffee and cake or choose from a wide range of pastries, cakes, breads and speciality teas
• Oliver’s Bar is a cosy English styled pub offering a wide range of cocktails in addition to premium draft and bottles beverages.
• Saba Discotheque: Oman’s Premier nightclub offering a live musical entertainment in the form of a band and dance troupe with a DJ playing in between sets and through into the small hours
• Tarbouche Arabic Nightclub: Live music and entertainers featuring Belly Dancers

Conference & Meeting Facilities:
Our ballroom and meeting rooms provide an ideal venue for conferences, product launches, exhibitions, dinner and dance events, wedding receptions, cocktails and seminars. With 5 Meeting rooms: the Nizwa Ballroom and Meeting Rooms with generous pre-function foyers can accommodate events up to 300 persons.

The lawns can hold up to a 1000 person reception and are an ideal venue during the cooler months of November to March. . Latest audio and conference equipment is available.

Recreation Facilities:
Recreation facilities include temperature controlled swimming pool and a fully equipped fitness centre along with the services of a personal trainer. Jacuzzi, sauna, steam room, massages, two floodlit tennis courts and a six-lane fully automatic bowling alley are some other highlights of the hotel.

Beach Resort:
Ten minutes drive from the hotel is the Sheraton Qurum Beach Resort located in Shatti Al Qurum, Muscat’s premier shopping area. The Resort has direct access to the beach from the garden, has seven tastefully appointed guestrooms and s the Far Eastern Restaurant serving exotic delicacies from the Far East with dishes from China, Thailand, Japan and Malaysia. Every Thursday evening the restaurant has a Sushi evening that has developed a strong local following, so forward bookings are advised on our online booking service found at www.starwood.com/reserveatable. After dinner you can join in the night’s fun at Cleopatra’s an Arabic nightclub featuring live entertainment in the form of a band and dance troupe.

Other facilities include a temperature-controlled outdoor swimming pool, a children’s pool and a fully equipped fitness centre, separate for ladies and men plus steam room and massage parlour. Diving, snorkelling, cruises, dolphin watching trips and a range of water sports can be arranged.