Muscat Primeclass Lounge

The Primeclass Muscat Lounge is the best - if not currently the only - pay in lounge at Muscat International Airport, other than the Oman Air lounges.

It is spacious, with decent food, clean and pleasant.

There is a great bar, buffet dining, a large children's and games area, showers and a spa.

An oddity, but a welcome one, is there are amazingly good bedrooms if you have an overly long stay.

Muscat Primeclass lounge review

The Muscat Primeclass lounge is located on the 5th floor airside, after passport control. Head up, and along to the back marble 'angle', and if need be, pay on the door.

This is also the British Airways Muscat lounge, and the Muscat Etihad and Emirates lounge, and when all these flight leave, it can be really busy.

With seats for 375 passengers over 3,000 square meters, it's a big lounge. It is also quite swish and pretty. And brand new last year.

As you enter, there is a large round area with a few green armchairs: this is by far the least comfortable part of the lounge, and it gets better as you explore.

It has some nice wooden fretwork, eye popping carpets, and plenty of glass and steel, located as it is up in the top of the airport terminal.

The main design elements of the Muscat Primeclass lounge use a design based on a reinterpretation of Oman's traditional architecture and distinctive landscapes.

It is a large lounge. To the left is a view through to the main lounge area which is at one side of the terminal having great views, and a corridor with lots of Arabian arches.

There is also a large children's room, and next to it there is a majlis - an Arabic sitting place. There is also a closed off space for families with privacy for women - important in Oman.

Don't miss the pool table, at the far end of the lounge, and also the electric darts boards.

Bar

The bar is the main central feature of the lounge. It is certainly well used by ex-pats.

There are actually two bars - a 'dry' juice bar, and a 'wet' one, with complementary booze. This bar has nice comfy seats to pull up at the bar. All drinks are served for you, with a house wine, beer, or spirits.

One downside is that if someone ahead of you in the queue orders cocktails, waiting time for a beer can be lengthy.

Food

There is a great buffet under a strange curvy plywood roof, along with a soup of the day, in the Muscat Primeclass lounge.

There is a vast salad bar on one side. On the other are hot dishes.

Lamb dishes, and lots of rice feature extensively.

The range of deserts is worthy of note, as is the amount of fresh fruit.

Cakes and pastries are also there in abundance.

Business Facilities

Free wifi.

There are alas no computers you can use for work, but most of the seats do have plug sockets nearby so you can charge your laptop.

There is a large games room, with large blue chairs facing TV screens plugged into Playstations.

There is also a small TV room, with all the seats facing a small TV.

Bathrooms

There are bathrooms in the lounge, as you would expect.

There are also shower cubicals: ask at reception for a towel.

The Spa is good - although treatments are extra, as are sessions in the private massage rooms.

Muscat Primeclass lounge Access

There is complementary access to the Muscat Primeclass lounge for Business Class passengers (with a voucher given at check in) for British Airways, Turkish Airlines, Emirates, Etihad, Qatar, KLM, Swiss Air, Thai Airways.

Otherwise it is $52USD / 42GBP on the door. However, it is much less if you pay in advance.