Nice stay

I stayed at the Hilton Salalah in the beginning of Jan 2018 with the family. Before I arrived, I emailed the property about the diamond benefits and if they will extend to both rooms. They confirmed that they would.

This property does not have a lounge, so breakfast was at the buffet. 

We arrived from SLL airport in the airport taxi (20 OMR per taxi each way) and we were greeted by the bellhops to take the luggage. Check-in took about 5 minutes where we were upgraded from the standard rooms booked at the 5K points per night to rooms with a sea view (both rooms - one was a king bed and other was 2 twins). I was offered the Jr Suite, but it didn't have a view.

The room was decent. Beds were decently comfortable and the usual amenities were offered. One thing I noticed is that they have amenities for the regular guests and for Hilton elites. For instance, when I went to the room, the toiletries were some generic brand, no slippers, robes, etc. When I came back, they swapped out the toiletries for the Peter Thomas Roth, added robes and slippers, and a welcome gift.

As others have mentioned, the service at the hotel is quite good. The staff was friendly and polite. 

Dining wise, the hotel has a few restaurants on site. The hotel seems to cater mainly to the all-inclusive charter flights from Europe (saw that most of the guests speak Polish, and there are plenty of ads for the Polish tourism companies) so they ate their meals at the restaurant where breakfast is served. Breakfast wise, it was a good buffet with hot and cold choices, egg station, juices, breads, sweets.

We had dinner one night at the restaurant by the pool. Food was fine and service was great. The other night we had dinner at the bar restaurant. Overall there was a good variety of food, and it tasted good but it wasn't amazing. Price wise, it wasn't overly expensive. For happy hour, we had 7 drinks (alcoholic) and a burger and the total came to be around 18OMR. A dinner was about 55OMR for 4 starters, 4 mains, 2 desserts, and a few drinks (alcoholic).

Here is the alcohol offered on the all inclusive package (you can buy it at check-in, but for the selection, I'd rather just buy the better stuff normally)

Location wise, people did mention that you can see the port from the hotel, and that is true. But the beach was nice and big, and quiet. There usually wasn't an issue finding a lounge chair even in the late morning and the grounds were well kept. There isn't anything near the hotel, so if you want to site-see you would either need to rent a car or arrange a taxi or tour. 

Overall, I enjoyed the property and thought it was a great use of the 5K per night (or even less with the 5th night free). If one was traveling with the family and wanted some days at a resort for cheap, it is a good place to do so.