The best hotels Turtle Coast

The Sur Plaza is the best hotel in the region, without question. That doesn't excuse it for being a little sad, with its facade of small rectangular windows and H-shape that can't find a way to have rooms with a pool view, except over the restaurant's wind tunnels. While you're at it, avoid the keys on the expressway side of the 92 rooms, which are comfortable and have everything a 3-star hotel needs for a good night's sleep (air-conditioning, TV, mini bar, bathroom). Also: 2 restaurants, including one on the poolside terrace, gym.

Less a hotel than 19 rooms in a scientifically based structure designed for ecotourism: no garden, no swimming pool, few windows to limit nuisance. A few hundred meters away, 12 luxury tents offer similar comfort (private bathroom, living room, air conditioning' ) in a slightly less monastic atmosphere and with the advantage of a terrace. We are in the heart of the reserve, that's the advantage. Also restaurant, shop, museum. Beach accessible from 8h to 13h30.

It's the dry hostel, but we'll make do with it, because it looks like it's actually on the podium in Sur. On the other side of the "Eiffel" bridge, a 6-storey building with bronze reflections leans against a rocky spur and offers, on one of its sides, a plunging view of the waters of the lagoon. A room on the fourth or fifth floor of the hotel's 43 rooms can be booked there. For shisher and dinner with a view of the water, choose between the restaurant on the second floor or the Sahari, just a stone's throw away, the largest outdoor terrace in Sur.

What a pity to sleep in the hotel when you are in Masirah! But the option will suit the réfractaires of the campsite which only have a small budget and can find refuge in this place you can no longer basic! Only 6 rooms, think about booking!

Just 4 km from the Turtle Reserve Visitor Center, this small hotel features 20 traditionally styled bungalows, decorated with local, natural materials. You'll appreciate the spaciousness of the Deluxe bungalows, with their superb bathrooms and bathtubs, and the open-air showers of the Standard bungalows, which are just as charming. Beautiful terrace in front of each unit and on-site restaurant. No real activity, we're just here to see these shellfish. A stopover hotel rather than a leisure hotel.

Located on the beach, 2 km from the port, it is certainly the best option for those who do not wish or are not equipped to camp but want to enjoy the sea. Not bad also if you arrive with the last ferry and it is late, to avoid pitching the tent at night: you will wake up in front of the wave and set off to conquer the island the next day. The complex consists of 23 rooms and 2 comfortable apartments with air conditioning, a restaurant and a coffee shop. On request, turtle watching trips, boat tours, car rental.

Ideally located 3 km inside Wadi Tiwi, on a mountainside amidst terraced plantations, this new Zen-style boutique hotel offers a number of spacious rooms in soft, natural tones. A little higher up, on a platform, are partially transparent domes for sleeping with your head in the stars. Elsewhere, camping sites offer an economical alternative (tents for rent). The whole complex is stylish, with a lovely pool area, coffee shop and activity center for all.

A surprising country that installs there, in the locality's roadstead, a beautiful building all in ochre length, 100 meters from the infinite beach, with the sea in front of it. A single floor, simple rooms but equipped with all the necessary, spacious and bright, TV, swimming pool, all well above the level of the shabby inns of the blues at the gates of the desert. For those who make the big tour by the coast and then the Sharqiya Sands or vice versa, and would need a shower and a restaurant, this is an address that makes sense. BBQ and playground for children.

Formatted for digital natives, playful, trendy and easy-going, this sister brand of the Atana chain offers convivial spaces built around a central lounge and its resto - a place to live, share and meet. We're off the beaten track, with the desert at our backs and the sea in front, on the edge of this untouched coastline that heads south and offers ideal conditions for adventure and kitesurfing, all Instagrammable experiences. The 44 rooms offer all the comforts of a good 3* hotel. Swimming pool, games room.

The resort of Turtle Island is the most luxurious. We salute the comfort of the 22 rooms, suites and family chalets of this modern establishment, its swimming pool, its fitness, its beach volleyball court... We go to one of the two bars to have an aperitif and we go to the restaurant The Dhow hoping to meet some humans. There, all around, the unchanged cycle of reproduction takes place. Clever spotting: the rooms on the first floor have a private balcony and offer a panoramic view of the Arabian Sea. Bonus of the stay: the Masirah Natural Treasures Museum.