Sunset dhow cruise
A wooden dhow, cardamom coffee, and the whole coast turning gold.
Salalah · Dhofar Coast
Wake up wherethe sea is turquoise.
A breezy beach resort on the Salalah coast — forty rooms and villas a barefoot walk from the lagoon, three pools, a spa in the palm shade, and the warm Arabian Sea doing most of the work.
40Rooms & villas
3Pools + a lagoon
25Minutes to Mughsail
Marhaba
The good kind of nowhere to be.
Laguna Bay sits where a freshwater lagoon meets the Arabian Sea, twenty-five minutes west of Salalah. In Khareef the hills behind us turn green and the mist rolls in; the rest of the year the sky is wide open and the water is bath-warm.
It is small on purpose — forty rooms, four little restaurants, and a team that learns your coffee by the second morning. Come for the beach; stay for the way nobody rushes you anywhere.
- Barefoot beach
- Khareef green
- Family friendly
- Kids stay free
A beach resort on the Salalah coast
Rooms with the window open
Three to start with. Every one of them within earshot of the water.
Lagoon Room
from85OMR
A bright room with a balcony over the lagoon and a hammock that has ruined many afternoons.
Lagoon view · 38 m² · Sleeps 2
Beachfront Suite
from140OMR
Sea on the doorstep, a deep tub, and a terrace built for watching the sun go down behind Mughsail.
Sea view · 60 m² · Sleeps 2
The Dhofar Villa
from420OMR
Two bedrooms, a private pool ringed with palms, and a garden that hums with birds all Khareef long.
Private pool · 140 m² · Sleeps 6
Things to do (or happily not)
The reef, the dolphins, the blowholes at Mughsail — all a short ride away. Or don’t move. That is allowed too.
Snorkel the reef
Fifteen minutes offshore to clear water, parrotfish, and the odd turtle.
Dolphin morning
Out at dawn with the fishermen when the pods come to feed in the bay.
Mughsail & the blowholes
The cliffs, the sea caves, and geysers that fire straight up through the rock.
Paddleboard the lagoon
Flat, warm, and impossible to get wrong — the calmest water you will find.
Frankincense & farms
A land tour of the frankincense trees, banana farms, and the old souq in town.
Three pools, one lagoon
Shoes optional. Always.
An infinity pool over the sea, a quiet adults’ pool in the shade, a shallow splash pool for the little ones — and a lagoon warm enough to swim in at midnight.
We booked three nights and stayed six. The staff felt like cousins by the end of it.
The sea is exactly this warm right now.
Forty rooms, three pools, and a lagoon that does not know what a cold day is. Grab your dates before Khareef fills up.
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