New General Manager for Crowne Plaza Resort Salalah

Complementing the completion of Crowne Plaza Resort Salalah’s recent extensive rebranding process, the hotel has welcomed a new general manager.

Edward Chaaya, takes up the post just in time for the popular Khareef season and will be instrumental in the hotel’s full relaunch under the Crowne Plaza brand.

Educated at Las Vegas University, Chaaya completed a Bsc in Hotel Management before embarking on his twenty two year career within the field.

Spending the majority of his career in the thriving tourism centres of the UAE and Egypt, Chaaya takes with him a great deal of experience of the Middle East market.

The hotel boasts 125 luxuriously designed standard rooms, as well as Royal, Executive and Junior suites along with 19 three-bedroom family villas. Diners can choose from Darbat Restaurant - all-day dining, International and Oriental cuisine, a beach restaurant serving fresh seafood, a lobby café offering tea, coffee and snacks and Al Luban Night Club offering live entertainment and a la carte cuisine every night.

Banquet and meeting facilities include a multi-purpose banquet hall seating up to 350 delegates, as well as smaller meeting and break-out rooms with state-of-the-art audio-visual equipment. There are three swimming pools - one for children, open-air Jacuzzi and two floodlit tennis courts.