The national emblem of Oman is the khanjar — a curved dagger, shaped roughly like the letter ‘J’. Khanjar are ubiquitous in Oman. They appear on the national flag, on police cars, banknotes and coins.

You feel like royalty here, partially due to the regal architecture—the property's white arches and domes feel reminiscent of a majestic Omani palace. The Deluxe Club Rooms and the Chedi Club Suite ...

"I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions,” the English explorer Wilfred Thesiger wrote in his 1959 travelogue, Arabian Sands. It was these words—about ...