Six Senses Zighy Bay

Name: Six Senses Zighy Bay
Address: Musandam Peninsula, P.O. Box 212, Oman, Oman
Price range: Prices start at 82 rooms from £404 per night

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Six Senses Zighy Bay

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Salt water pool

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Aerial View

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Sablah Main Lobby

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Microlight

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Sunrise

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Pool villa living

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Ziggy Bay

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Villa bedroom

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Pool villa beachfront

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Pool villa exterior

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Villa bathroom

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Wine cellar

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Private dining experience

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Main pool

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Villa bedroom

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Bathroom

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Dhahab dining experience

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“An award-winning beach resort in a remote coastal position. Absolute barefoot luxury in individual poolside sea-facing villas with private pools, spas, and gardens. Chic eco suites with light stone walls and wooden furnishings. Fantastic Ottolenghi style restaurant and direct access to the beach.”

Hotel review

The development and infrastructure built for this hotel is extraordinary. On a previously empty bay on the Musandam Peninsula – a whole new Omani village has been built - at one end of the bay is the accommodation for the staff and at the other end the hotel. If you look from the col above it is like a green oasis in an otherwise harsh, mountainous and arid environment. Zighy Bay is a series of sea-facing stone-built villas with private pools, connecting to the main hub along ‘roads’ of fine white sand. All of them are luxurious with daybeds in the living area, private dining areas (for when you have your private chef round) bedroom, bathroom and outside shower plus of course you own pool.

It’s not just that the villas are absolutely top end, but so are the restaurant choices from home-made pasta by the pool, Arabian dishes in the Spice Market or at the Shua Shack (right on the beach) or be transported to Sense on the Edge, 293 metres above sea level overlooking the Arabian gulf and Zighy Bay for a taste of Spain. Between breakfast, lunch and dinner if you aren’t relaxing by your pool or on the beach, Zighy Bay has a full menu of ‘Experiences’ from sailing, boating and yachting to flying and gliding, walking and hiking, diving and snorkeling and there’s even culture with village trips and cooking classes. It seems a shame not to partake of some of these activities but you can always stay put in the prone position on your sunlounger or if you have to do something book a treatment in the Six Senses Spa. Zighy Bay has it all and considering the sybaritic existence that is offered, is not unreasonably priced.