Anantara Al Jabal Al Akhdar Resort
Al Jabal Al Akhdar, Oman · 5-star Hotel GHA DISCOVERY
Anantara Al Jabal Al Akhdar Resort in photographs
When to go
The cheapest month we have found is August, at around USD 418 a night - -3% against what this hotel usually asks.
Where to book
- Book on Booking.com - Free cancellation options, guest reviews and a familiar checkout.
- Hotel website - Photos, facilities and location.
The loyalty angle
This hotel sits under GHA DISCOVERY. We have not yet checked what it saves on this property specifically. Every price on this page is the public rate, so a member may pay less than the figures shown.
Our notes
Anantara Al Jabal Al Akhdar Resort
Anantara Al Jabal Al Akhdar is a mountain resort on the Green Mountain (Jabal Akhdar) in Oman, about two hours' drive inland from Muscat. The resort describes itself as one of the world's highest luxury resorts, set on the edge of a canyon in the Hajar Mountains. It has 82 canyon-view rooms, each of about 60 square metres with a private balcony, and 33 private pool villas, including a three-bedroom pool villa.
The resort's best-known feature is a canyon viewing platform named after Princess Diana, who visited in the 1980s, which also serves as a dining setting. Facilities include the Anantara Spa with Thai healing treatments and hammam rituals, a Technogym fitness centre, a heated swimming pool, a kids' club and several dining venues. Check-in is from 14:00 and check-out is at 12:00.
The altitude makes the climate noticeably cooler than the coast, which is the main reason to choose the mountain over the beach here. The resort is part of the Anantara brand of Minor Hotels. Photographs: the hotel's own website, anantara.com.
The area
Jabal Akhdar means Green Mountain, and the name is the whole story: this stretch of Oman's Hajar range rises to around 2,000 metres on the Saiq Plateau, high enough and wet enough to support a Mediterranean-style microclimate that has no business existing on the Arabian Peninsula - terraced orchards and gardens climbing slopes that are bare desert everywhere else in the country. Villages such as Al Ayn, Ash Sharayjah and the now largely abandoned Wadi Bani Habib still work the same stone terraces their ancestors carved centuries ago, growing pomegranates (more than 20,000 trees across the plateau, enough that Omanis call this the country's fruit basket), walnuts, apricots and grapes.
The plateau's best-known crop, though, is the Damask rose. Each spring, generally through most of May, the terraces turn pink with roses grown for a single purpose: distilling into rosewater, still done in small stone stills over wood fires much as it always has been, and sold across the Gulf as some of the finest rosewater made anywhere. Trekking between the villages along the old donkey paths - Al Ayn to Ash Sharayjah is the classic route - is the best way to see both the terraces and the sheer drop of the canyons the plateau sits above; the Hajar range here includes some of the highest peaks in Arabia, and the views from the plateau's edge run for miles into the gorges below.
What it costs through the year
| Cheapest we have seen | USD 405 ≈ €362 |
|---|---|
| What it usually costs | USD 431 ≈ €385 |
| Dearest we have seen | USD 656 ≈ €586 |
| Times we looked | 3 |
| Gap between the two | 58% |
| Last checked | 2026-07-30 |