Muscat Cruise Reviews

We were in Muscat on a Friday, the Muslim holy day. That meant that the Grand Mosque along with other sites and museums were closed. The cruise ship offered tours to these places. However, fine print showed that they would not be visiting the interiors if on a Friday. Based on that, we decided not to book a tour through the ship. There is a shuttle bus that goes from the ship to the port entrance, ...

Souk quite easy to walk to. ...

I think it was here that the hop on hop off bus was ....€70 !!! A ridiculous price. We got driven about by a nice taxi driver who took pictures inside the mosque for me. A pleasant trip but not much scope to wander round ...

Peaceful, relaxing time spend on a dhow. Azamara guests only, which was nice. Plenty of water given to guests. ...

Good look at the culture ...

Took the Seaborn shuttle to the souk. ...

Lovely place, though we got in on a Friday so the grand mosque was closed and the other places all closed at lunch ...

Been before seen it all quite a good port of call ...

Muscat was a real suprise to be honest - a beautiful modern city and our private tour guide Nasser from Sunshine Tours Oman gave us a wonderful tour of his city. Our dealings with Sunshine Tours were always specific and responses were immediate to all of my questions. Although I wasn't sure what there was to see beforehand the day was full and included a wonderful feast of Omani fruit and cake at ...

we had private tour arranged through CC of local area including grand mosque, Sultans palace, Opera house and souk. Very interesting. ...