This fairly new, small, hotel is located 5 minutes walk from the beach. Rooms are clean, modern and breakfast is pretty good. It's only restaurant does not serve alcohol and the hotel lacks a decent pool and bar/entertainment. A few restaurants located 4-5 minutes away on foot. (Didn't try them so can't give review.)

This hotel and even all the fancy-shmancy hotels for that matter too are far from the main tourist areas of Mutrah and Old Muscat (and possibly Qurum and Ruwi if you want general shopping), so I won't criticize its location. It's as good (or as bad) as any other when you don't have your own car to drive.

For me, the biggest drawback was its lack of a decent pool. It has a very, VERY, teeny tiny pool surrounded on all sides by the hotel's 4-story walls. It's like a pool in a room. It's only opening to the outside is the open roof. It was dark and looked so unappealing being located next to the restaurant/lobby that I didn't even feel like getting in.

You may not give this much importance--but after you have been to Oman you will learn like I did that all tourist spots (souks, museums) are open in the morning and late afternoon. What this meant to me was this: after everything closed at 1:30pm, I had nothing to do, nowhere to go to escape all that HEAT until after 4pm. It would have been so nice to go back to the hotel, get in the pool, and relax.

After a few days I ended changing up to the Al Falaj Hotel that wasn't as modern and did come with some out-dated rough spots in terms of furnishings. Nevertheless, at the same rate it came with a very nice pool and is much closer to Mutrah (souk) and shopping, which saved me from having to pay for and travel longer distance to reach these areas.

It's not a bad budget-choice hotel if you want to go to the beach and stay there. Also, it is a better choice than the Al Falaj if you must have new/modern and you don't mind the lack of facilities. But I wouldn't recommend it unless you can get a better rate compared to other hotels in the same class that come with decent facilities and a pool.