Six Senses Zighy Bay Resort | Pink Notebook

Dibba, Oman

Six Senses Zighy Bay Resort

5 star

From $1,279/Night

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From $1,279/Night

Standard Amenities

24-hour front desk

Concierge

Express check-in/out

Luggage storage

Currency exchange

Tour desk

Ticket service

Self-parking

Airport shuttle

Laundry service

Ironing service

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Select the perfect room for your stay.

Standard Villa with Pool

1356 sq.ft • King-Size Bed + Day-Bed (Extra Bed Option)

From $1,279

The Retreat Room with Sofa

10753 sq.ft

From $5,432

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Standard Double Villa with Pool

883 sq.ft • Full Double Bed

From $1,698

Insider Info

What to Know Before You Go

Sense On The Edge

Perched on a craggy pass in the Hajar Mountains near where the resort's paragliders take off, this restaurant sits close to a thousand feet above the beach. Overseen by executive chef James Knight-Pacheco, it is known for spectacular sunset dinners overlooking the Gulf of Oman coastline below.

What to pack

Long, loose linen for Dibba and the village, reef-safe sunscreen, and closed shoes with grip for the mountain trails.

Shua Shack

A handful of nights each week, guests eat barefoot on the sand at this Bedouin-style beachfront venue. The signature dish is a whole lamb slow-roasted in an underground fire pit, served with saffron rice and roasted dates, delivering an ancient, soulful style of dining rather than refined haute cuisine.

Where you'll be

Northern Musandam Peninsula, PO Box 212, Zighy Bay, 800 Dibba, Oman

Need to know

A few notes on your visit.

Check-in
From 15:00

Check-out
Until 12:00

Size of property
82 rooms

Cards accepted
Visa, Master Card, American Express, Diners Club

Electricity
240V · 50Hz · type C/G sockets

Meals
Information about the type of meals included in the price is indicated in the rate details. Meals may be limited during Ramadan.

Special living conditions
Couples checking into the same room must present a valid marriage certificate upon check-in. Otherwise, the property may reject the booking or request that a second room be booked.

Transfer
Transfer from/to airport available. Cost: 335.00 USD one way.

Extra info
Due to the current situation in the Gulf region and disruptions to transportation, villa reservations can only be confirmed after availability has been verified by the reservations department. Only written confirmations from the reservations department regarding availability and rates are considered valid. Paragliding and ultralight flights are temporarily unavailable until September 15, 2026. Information will be updated once services are resumed. The Earth Lab is closed for renovations and will reopen on October 1, 2026. The Kids' Club is open Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. The Teens' Club is open daily. Information about the type of meals included in the price is indicated in the rate details. Meals may be limited during Ramadan. Couples checking into the same room must present a valid marriage certificate upon check-in. Otherwise, the property may reject the booking or request that a second room be booked. In case of check-in after 09:00 PM, guests should inform the hotel in advance and get check-in instructions. Contact information can be found on the booking confirmation. The saltwater pool, the entire main beach, two retreats, and the reserve will be upgraded and refurbished too. The Chaica’s kids club will be moved to near the Al Feetean’s teen's club to create more fun for children and added ease for parents. Six Senses Zighy Bay Resort is located away from the mainland of Oman with only access from Dubai-two hours drive. Hence, no Oman visa is required, but border passes are arranged instead. As per the local government regulations, a border pass is required for all visitor to cross the Dibba Check point (Corniche border between UAE and this part of Oman). The resort officer will submit the documents to the police for approval 4 days in advance before the arrival date. Late submission will result in police’s rejection, and the border crossing will be impossible. Please note, the border pass a compulsory requirement to cross Dibba border. It is the official entry document by which travellers are adminstered as temporary visitors to Dibba Oman /Zighy Bay(as Dibba border is not an officail border, passport control). Please send us the clear and full pictures of the required documents as mentioned below 4 days in advance before the arrival date.: UAE Resident Visa holders are required to send us the passport photo page and a color copy of the UAE Resident Visa page. Guests are required to carry a passport valid for at least 6 months from the date of travel and an Emirates ID valid for at least 3 months from the date of travel. Persons on UAE visit / Tourist visa are required to send the passport page with photo in color. GCC nationalities do not require border pass. Guest passport or ID will be required at the hotel. Guests will not be able to get to the hotel from Dubai by taxi. Guests must contact the hotel to receive detailed instructions for airport procedures and transfer arrangements. Contact information is provided in the booking confirmation.

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Six Senses Zighy Bay Resort

The road out of Dibba, the border town on the eastern edge of Oman’s Musandam Peninsula, climbs a switchback track into the Hajar Mountains and then drops, steeply and with almost no warning, onto a 1.6 kilometre crescent of beach where Six Senses opened Zighy Bay in 2008, the group’s first property in the Middle East, after nearly four years of construction on a bay that until then had been reachable only by fishing boat. Musandam is an Omani exclave, separated from the rest of the Sultanate by the UAE and looking out toward the Strait of Hormuz, and the resort’s 82 pool villas were built in stone and palm frond after the fashion of Zighy, the fishing village that still occupies one end of the beach and supplies some of what ends up on the table. Six Senses has been owned by IHG since 2019, and the resort is run as one of the brand’s flagships, which in practice has meant a steady turnover in the general manager’s office, from Aaron McGrath through Gauderic Harang and Andrew Spearman to Diletta Guarino, promoted from resort manager after joining in 2021. The villas are walled stone compounds, each with its own pool, palm-shaded terraces and butler service, ranging from the standard Pool Villas up to the two Retreats and a four-villa Private Reserve with an oversized infinity pool at the head of the bay, refreshed in recent years. Food runs across several kitchens: Spice Market, with its mud oven and Arabic set menus at breakfast and dinner, Summer House for farm-to-table plates and house-made ice creams, Shua Shack on the sand, where lamb is slow-cooked underground in the Bedouin way, and Sense on the Edge, a fine-dining room 293 metres up the mountain serving three to nine courses on a handful of nights a week. There is a proper wine cellar, an organic garden and farm, produce bought from Dibba and Zighy village, drinking water bottled from the resort’s own plant, a Six Senses Spa with separate hammams for men and women, and Chaica’s Club for children aged 4 to 10. It is a resort, not a boutique hotel, and it behaves like one: buggies, a long activity menu (paragliding, diving, dhow cruises, mountain biking, village treks), and a guest list weighted toward Dubai couples, honeymooners, and families who can make the two-hour drive on a Thursday night. What lifts it above the other big Gulf beach resorts is the geography, a bare ochre mountain wall at your back and clear water in front, with nothing manufactured between them except the village Six Senses built to match the one already there. The design is a little theatrical in places, an Omani village interpreted through a resort brief, but the stone has weathered in nearly two decades and the setting carries most of the weight. You should not come if you want a small hotel where the owner remembers how you take your coffee, or if you are travelling in high summer, when Musandam routinely passes 40°C and the mountain becomes something to look at rather than walk on. Avoid the UAE school holidays and Eid if quiet matters to you. You should come between November and April, for the descent into the bay, the dinner on the mountain, and a beach whose remoteness is real rather than marketed. The short version: An 82-villa Six Senses on a remote bay in Oman’s Musandam exclave, opened in 2008, built in stone and palm alongside a working fishing village, with a mountaintop restaurant, a serious spa and two hours of desert road between you and Dubai.