Al Sawadi Beach Resort and Spa  

Nice location for diving. Nice beach. Buffet dinner was good.

Bathroom floods when you take a shower. Ac was not strong enough room was too hot. overpriced hotel

landscape meals friendly staff and people garden and flowers

insufficiant lights in bedroom beach should be cleaned lack of sun protection for cars

The settings is lovely and very relaxing.Staff is very friendly. Short stay is fine, but 2 weeks holiday?NO!

Living in Oman for 7 years we stayed in lots of hotels. Last stay was the Millenium resort, just few km from Sawadi and also a 4*. Sawadi has no room service, no free water, no toiletries in the bathroom and the food is very salty, nothing special.Sawadi should go to a 3* and our next stay is for sure the Millenium Resort again!

diving

we stayed 1 night then dove the next day but couldn't get back from the dive trip to shower and change in the room. Would be nice to have an arrangement to co-ordinate the check-out time with the dive trip.

Very nice the dinner

Very expensive

beautiful location on the beach lots of birds and plants good pool wide range of food in buffet

room was a little dated beds bit uncomfortable difficult to find

The setting is beautiful, near the beach, and when all lit up at night, very romantic. Nice restaurants and bars, good service; we like the dive centre, in fact most of the clientele seemed to be divers, but the hotel is suitable for 'normal' holiday makers, families, etc and it is surprising there aren't more; so much to do, just needs more people!

Nothing, all fine

The casual and friendly atmosphere. The food was good and the rooms clean.

The beach was a little bit scruffy.

We had a great time in 2012, therefore we decided to come again. It was ok, but value for money changed a bit worse. The food was excellent, room clean, service ok but not as excellent as in 2012.

This year the prices were higher but they did not improve their service, ie no facilites in the bathroom - no problem normally but for these high rates one could expect; just one little bottle of mineralwater for two persons daily for free, last time they gave one/person.....nothing really relevant but anyway?!

The perfect location (if you have a car) - the quiet - the very friendly and helpful staff - the excellent food - the comfortable rom on the garden side - well, everything ! So much that we extended our stay !

Quiet and peaceful. Green gardens and all the plants. Able to sunbathe freely. Spread out and low density.

The price The lack of road signs off the highway to find the resort. ( as independent travellers).

Great location for diving the Damaniyats. Good dive boats, good gear and great instructors Friendly staff who went the extra mile

Run-down ambience Beach needs cleaning Beach shades and loungers are separated from the hotel grounds by some dilapidated sports facilities and abandoned bar, no service on the beach and general public free to wander through Ugly, old furniture and decor in the rooms (although the new bathrooms are a nice step in the right direction) Toilets don't flush properly, don't make it your first weekend away with a partner! Gloomy, depressing lobby Uninspiring food, much like their other property in Muscat Friendly staff but poor training, service is slow and inattentive (but not lazy) Uninviting bar and nightclub that serves local market more than hotel guests

The food.

No coffee/tea in rooms & limited room service.

Magnificent location on the Gulf of Oman.Personnel at the bar/restaurant was very friendly.

Price much too high for what they offer. Real value about half to 60 % of the actual price. Serious lack of cleanliness and lack of attention to it in a country with high temperatures. Consequence: a lot of flies, also continuously on the food. We did not experience this in other (clean) Omani locations that we visited. Two of us got serious intestinal problems. Unfriendly and uninterested personnel at the frontdesk. A place that lacked good and effective hotel MANAGEMENT!!

No thing

Toilet , service

The food was very good.

The resort looked 'tired' and in need of a 'makeover' compared to when I have been there before.

location as it was close to the dive sites of damaniyat islands

well the service could have been better bit laid back has great potential

Beach although it was noisy in the evening due a lot of cars and scooters running there some motorcyclists doing one wheeling

Room was clean and tidy with a nice garden view but overrated at 100 rials /night

Much open space, good for young and old, good facilities

No sign to Al Sawadi at the main road coming from Muscat. Used an hour to find the place.

very good food

It was not crowded (may be bad for the business, but definitely good for the guests!) It has good privacy Food was generally good

Poor infrastructure ... lacking in showers at the beach, more pathways need to be built for access to the beach. The worst part was when on Friday afternoon, the buggies and 4-wheelers intruded the beach from the general public area, disturbing the peace and quiet. Guests had no other choice but to leave for their rooms for the day.

Looks like a great divers resort

Rooms were a bit musty smelling but clean and service was friendly and efficient

We love the comfort of the place, being surrounded by the sea and wildlife, the staff and how friendly and sweet they all are, the relaxation, the beach bar and much more.....

It needs better landscape on the sea side of the Bahala group of cottages. The sea view and the front of the rooms absolutely barren and not cared. Some greens in front of the room balocony wilii enhance the vew and the sense of feeling comfort will improve.

The baive point is repeate herer. Moreover, the swiming pool area towrds the sea side needs little more shed with greeneries. I think these areas needs specifc landscape desing to improve the quality of the environement. One should visit the Crowne Plaza, Salalah, Oman beach resort to understand I pointed out.

the view, the nature, the food

no ceiling fan,no room service for food,we missed the warmth...though the system looked ok.