The Hotel has a great location, this is what I would like to mention first and that makes my experience a bit better - from terrible to poor. (of course all is in the eyes of the beholder only and is an individual experience).
Ahhh - 62 Rials it has cost me - a bargain of nearly U$ 170,- for this jewel of hospitality in Muscat. So let us start from the beginning:

1.Check-In. Upon check-in the manager had to leave his cozy couch in the lobby to drag himself behind the counter and then helped me to find my reservation (or rather told me to go and find my booking number instead - no way that he would search in his arrival list for a possible guest coming from Dubai, that had not checked in and might have been booked under a wrong name). Anyway - checked-in now.

2. Room: The room is ok on first sight, though I was wondering why all curtains are closed only to find out that I have a beautiful building site next to my window 3-4 meters away - and the window is so dirty that I first thought that a US navy destroyer is docked next to the hotel. Closed the curtains again as I decided not to have the workers look at me while changing (or rather my wife). The room itself has a bed that is ok, the other interior is @30 years old, the minibar is empty, the stationary looks like my kid has just surfed down a dune on it. But, I am not here for this - I am here to spend a day in Muscat having fun. Fun in a hotel without TV???? TV has 100 channels of which 25 are randomly occupied, of which again 20 are Indian movies and stuff I am not interested in and the 5 international channels show a blurry, not to be identified picture. So here goes my relaxing 10 minutes watching a movie or the news. But I know now all about Bollywood. :-(

3. Bathroom: Welcoming sign on the toilet: This toilet has been disinfected. Jah, but they forgot to remove the disinfected hairs which were curling up on the floor and the toilet rim. Hmmh - lovely and gave me a good feeling about the kitchen already. Shower is ok, new showerheads from Grohe, warm water and decent amenities.

4.The return to the hotel at around 11pm. We went to Rock BottomCafe/Club/Bar, once a legend in Muscat - still is in Dubai and were amazed that it was empty on a Friday, except some local youngsters getting drunk and a few hookers waiting for customers. The food was poor (calamari were tasting a bit old, so was the fat they were fried in). Chicken wings great, I must say - but the Guinness beer a total mess. Either the keg is old or the beer lines are dirty, which caused the beer to collapse and gave it a smell and taste of an old lemon. Now wanting to pay, I was not able to receive a signed copy of my receipt (billed it to my room), as this was not policy. You know: All in India is policy, and not common sense and guest service - but the Manager (who arrived after the 5th level of managers and policy people had exhausted their skills with me), gave me the bill immediately and apologized. She was great - I just feel that she is in the wrong establishment and hope that she will find a better hotel to work in soon.

5. The night: TV broken, nothing in the minibar, the light switches somewhere hidden or 2 meter high, the bed actually is great and I slept well until 2am when the phone starts ringing and once my wife picked up the phone went dead again and again. Well, having traveled before and know that now the bars of the hotels close, I assume it is the night manager together with hookers calling guests in order to see if one can make extra business. Though that was common in Asia, and was surprised to get hassled here in Muscat with this. Anyway, went back to sleep, but was waken up on a Saturday morning (weekend in Muscat), by sledge hammers and drills drilling into my ears.... Ahh, the construction site has woken up. Great if at least nobody informs you first at check-in. So let us get out of bed and have breakfast:

6. Breakfast: In an Indian establishment on the 2nd floor that gets re-built to breakfast room every day. Smells like this and gets you a first impression of the place, which together with the waiters (that rather stand around and want to escape work in their dirty and stained uniforms) brings me to the culinary delights on the buffet: A few salads, Kraft children cheese (the one in plastic foil and la vache qui rit triangles), lousy weak coffee and tea, powdered milk, jam in small plastic things. Breakfast that we got in Dubai 20 years ago and that any 80 U$ hotel like the Majestic Hotel in Bur Dubai (4 stars and great value for money) does not serve to their staff in the in-house canteen. Yakh. But they had fresh fruit (melon and pineapple). Not bad for 170+ U$ a night.

7. Check-out: Wanted to pay by credit card and had to enter my pin code to get the hotel to receive their payment. Dealt with an Omani "front man", who was not asking me how my stay was, if all was ok - but instead just ordered me to sign the credit card slip again. That was policy, though the payment was authorized by my pin number already and that replaces the signature (PCI - compliance laws made by the credit card industry). After I refused and he insisted, I now explained my general discontent to him about the hotel and was told that I had to go and complain to the management. He was Omani and did not care. Well, I told him that he will see himself and the lovely Ramme Guestline Qurum tonight in TripAdvisor, as this now was the last drop that I needed in order to share this hotel with you all. Enjoy!

I suggest to the management to uplift the charges per room per night, as you get all this extra "treats" for nothing. Bargain this would be.

i only stayed one night in the hotel but i found the staff to be friendly, my case went missing during flight and they phoned the airport for me the same night and through the next day until it arrived, also the hotel Taxi was reasonably priced again friendly, the food was also good, would go back and stay.

Although I was not the guest of the hotel (we live nearby), I just want to flag that there has been an expansion project going on now for several months, and it is quite loud: they are building a 6-7 floor building on the adjacent plot, and they start working on the site at 7am every morning. So if you wish to have a quiet holiday, and plan to stay in bed after 7pm, forget Ramee. We are living about 200m away, and occasionally even we wake up for the noise. I would not want to imagine how loud it can be when it is just next to your room.
It is, however, temporary: I am sure once they finish the work it will be back to normal.

The plus points...The hotel has an impressive reception area and whilst the rooms aren't the largest, they are adequately sized with comfortable beds. There are a few restaurants under the hotel's roof: one an American themed place with acceptable food, although a not particularly pleasant atmosphere, and the other serving north Indian cuisine which was tasty. Breakfast was served in the indian restaurant and there was good variety.

The negatives...It's noisy at night as you can hear the indian music from the restaurant as it reverberates around the inner courtyard. The service was not particularly good: we had a few problems with our room and in spite of requesting various items numerous times, nothing ever materialised during the two nights we were there. Whilst our room was clean, others in our party were not at all happy with the standard and cleanliness of theirs, suggesting some variety in standard.

Whilst the stay here was OK, I suspect there are probably better places to stay in the area.