Best Aman Resorts, Ranked

Aman Tokyo

"The urban Aman that reset the category. Kerry Hill's vertical garden in the sky, and the property most first timers should book."

Why this rank: Aman Tokyo opened in 2014 on the top six floors of the Otemachi Tower, the brand's first purpose built city hotel and the property that proved barefoot calm could survive a capital. Kerry Hill, the Australian architect behind most of Aman's defining buildings, lifted the lobby to the 33rd floor and wrapped it in a six storey atrium hung with washi paper and a 30 metre ceiling, a room that reads more like a temple hall than a check in desk. The 84 rooms are the largest standard keys of any luxury hotel in Tokyo, each finished in camphor wood, stone and engawa style verandas. The spa runs across two floors with a 30 metre pool framed by the city skyline. For a first encounter with Aman, this is the property that delivers the house language in its most legible form.

Best for: Best for a first Aman stay, a milestone city celebration, and travelers who want serenity without leaving the centre of a capital.

The catch: The tower address means the famous Aman connection to landscape is replaced by glass and altitude, so guests chasing a barefoot resort feeling should look to the Asian originals instead.

Amankora

"Not a hotel but a journey. Five lodges threaded across the Himalayan valleys, and the most singular thing the brand has ever built."

Why this rank: Amankora is Aman's most ambitious idea made physical: five separate lodges across Bhutan's western and central valleys, Paro, Thimphu, Punakha, Gangtey and Bumthang, designed to be travelled as a single moving itinerary rather than stayed in one place. Each lodge holds between eight and twenty four suites in rammed earth and timber, deliberately monastic, with a single fireplace as the social heart. Guests move between them by road and by short flight, the staff handing off so the service never breaks. The Bhutanese government's high value low volume tourism policy makes the country hard to see well, and Amankora is the most refined way to do it, with guided treks to cliffside dzongs, archery, hot stone baths and farmhouse dinners arranged through the lodges. No other Aman delivers a country the way this one does.

Best for: Best for a once in a lifetime Himalayan trip, serious walkers, and travelers who would rather move through a landscape than settle into a single resort.

The catch: The lodge circuit is expensive before flights and the spare rammed earth rooms are intentionally austere, so anyone expecting plush resort softness will find the aesthetic monastic.

Aman Venice

"A frescoed palazzo on the Grand Canal with only twenty four suites. The most discreet address in Venice, and arguably in Italy."

Why this rank: Aman Venice occupies the Palazzo Papadopoli, a 16th century palace on the Grand Canal whose piano nobile salons still carry frescoes by Giambattista Tiepolo. The brand took a building of museum grade interiors and ran just twenty four suites through it, several with private gardens, a rarity in a city built on water. The Tiepolo and Apollo salons function as living rooms; breakfast and aperitivo move out to two private gardens, and arrivals come by water gate straight off the canal. George Clooney's wedding in 2014 turned the property into a name brand, but the day to day reality is quieter than that history suggests: a near silent palace where the loudest sound is a vaporetto passing the window. For a celebration that wants Venice without the crush of San Marco, this is the room.

Best for: Best for a landmark anniversary, a Venice honeymoon, and travelers who want a private palace rather than a grand hotel.

The catch: The historic palazzo means some suites face inward rather than onto the canal, and the very low key count books out a year ahead for the spring and autumn shoulder seasons.

Amanpuri

"The original. The 1988 property that invented the category, and still the benchmark every later Aman is measured against."

Status: Closed for refurbishment 15 May to 13 September 2026. Reopening 14 September 2026, with bookings open for later dates.

Why this rank: Amanpuri opened in 1988 on Phuket's Pansea Beach as Adrian Zecha's first Aman, the property that set the entire template: pavilions instead of towers, local craft instead of international gloss, and the black tiled pool that has been imitated for three decades. Forty Thai style pavilions climb a coconut grove above a private beach, with thirty larger villas, many staffed, set into the hillside. The design by Ed Tuttle established the vernacular grammar the brand carried worldwide. After more than thirty five years it still reads as the most refined expression of barefoot Asia, and a 2023 refurbishment added a major new spa house with hydrotherapy, a banya and a cold plunge overlooking the Andaman Sea. It remains the property serious Aman loyalists return to first.

Best for: Best for Aman purists, a beach led honeymoon, and travelers who want the property that started it all.

The catch: The resort is closed for refurbishment from 15 May to 13 September 2026, so it cannot be booked for stays inside that window; reservations are open for the reopening on 14 September 2026 and after.

Aman Kyoto

"A secret forest garden at the foot of Hidari Daimonji, reached through unmarked gates. The most secluded city Aman in the world."

Why this rank: Aman Kyoto sits on roughly 32 acres of moss and maple at the base of Mount Hidari Daimonji, on the northern edge of the city. The land was originally bought by an obi textile magnate to build a museum that never happened, leaving decades of untouched stone pathways and gardens that Kerry Hill then built around rather than over. Twenty six suites and two standalone villas are arranged as low timber pavilions among the trees, with a natural onsen fed by hot spring water piped to the property. There is no grand entrance; guests arrive through a forest path. In a city where the great ryokan and temple lodgings define luxury, Aman Kyoto offers the rarest thing of all, true seclusion within the city limits, a ten minute drive from Kinkaku ji yet entirely hidden.

Best for: Best for a contemplative Kyoto stay, autumn maple season, and travelers who want an onsen and a private forest over a central address.

The catch: The northern forest setting is a drive from the temple districts and dining of central Kyoto, so it trades walkable convenience for seclusion.

Amanyara

"The most secluded address in the Caribbean. A protected reserve on West Caicos with pavilions over a black reflecting pond."

Why this rank: Amanyara occupies a remote stretch of Providenciales beside the Northwest Point Marine National Park, one of the least developed corners of Turks and Caicos. Thirty eight timber pavilions and a separate enclave of larger villas open onto a central reflecting pond and a quiet beach inside a protected reserve, with some of the best wall diving in the Caribbean a short boat ride offshore. The architecture is pure barefoot Aman, dark wood, water, glass and silence, deliberately set apart from the resort strip at Grace Bay. The snorkelling and diving programme built around the marine park is the property's signature, and the seclusion is the point: this is the Caribbean Aman for travelers who want nature and privacy over nightlife.

Best for: Best for a private honeymoon, divers and snorkellers, and travelers who want the Caribbean without crowds.

The catch: The remote West Caicos position means a longer transfer from the airport and little to do off property, so guests wanting restaurants and nightlife within walking distance will feel marooned.

Aman New York

"The most private square footage in Manhattan. If silence is a luxury, Aman has cornered the Fifth Avenue market."

Why this rank: Aman New York opened in 2022 inside the landmark Crown Building at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, the brand's most expensive and most watched city project. Eighty three suites, each with a working fireplace, occupy the upper floors above a three storey spa, a jazz club and a garden terrace bar that became one of the hardest reservations in the city. The design by Jean Michel Gathy keeps the Aman calm even in midtown, with suites that average among the largest in Manhattan and soundproofing that turns Fifth Avenue silent. The 25 metre indoor pool ringed by daybeds is the centrepiece of a spa that spans an entire city block in section. For a New York celebration that never has to leave the building, nothing else in the city offers this combination of scale, privacy and address.

Best for: Best for a Manhattan celebration, suite bound privacy, and travelers who want a spa and a fireplace above Fifth Avenue.

The catch: It is among the most expensive hotel rooms in the United States, and the midtown tower setting cannot offer the landscape connection that defines the resort properties.

Amandari

"Aman's Bali classic above the Ayung River gorge. A village of thatched suites fifteen minutes from Ubud, and a brand touchstone."

Why this rank: Amandari opened in 1989, the second Aman ever built, on a ridge above the Ayung River gorge near the village of Kedewatan, fifteen minutes from central Ubud. Peter Muller designed it as a Balinese village in miniature, with paras stone walls, thatched alang alang roofs and walkways that mirror the layout of a traditional desa. Around thirty suites step down the hillside, several with private pools, and the green tiled main pool appears to spill straight into the rice terraces and jungle below. Decades on it remains the spiritual home of Aman in Bali, deeply tied to the surrounding community, with temple visits, river treks and Balinese dance arranged through the staff. For the cultural, jungle facing side of Bali rather than the beach, this is the original and still the standard.

Best for: Best for a cultural Bali stay, couples who want jungle over beach, and families drawn to Ubud and the rice terraces.

The catch: The Ubud highlands sit an hour or more from Bali's southern beaches, so sun and surf seekers face a long transfer each way.

Amanjiwo

"A limestone amphitheatre facing Borobudur, the largest Buddhist monument on earth. Aman's Javanese cathedral."

Why this rank: Amanjiwo stands in the Kedu Plain of central Java, arranged as a crescent of thirty six domed limestone suites curving toward Borobudur, the ninth century Buddhist temple complex that is the largest of its kind in the world. Ed Tuttle designed the resort to echo the monument itself, a central rotunda crowned with a stupa like dome, suites that frame the temple and the surrounding volcanoes through their windows. Borobudur sunrise visits, arranged before the public gates open, are the property's defining experience, along with village walks and gamelan in the courtyards. Ringed by four volcanoes and emerald paddy fields, it is one of the most architecturally complete resorts the brand has built, a place designed as much to contemplate a thousand year old temple as to stay in.

Best for: Best for a culture led Indonesia trip, a Borobudur sunrise, and travelers moved by architecture and ancient sites.

The catch: Central Java is a destination of temples and countryside rather than beaches or nightlife, and reaching it takes a flight to Yogyakarta plus a road transfer.

Amansara

"King Sihanouk's former royal guest villa, restored as the gateway to Angkor. Twenty four suites and a private temple programme."

Why this rank: Amansara occupies the 1960s modernist villa that King Norodom Sihanouk built to house his guests in Siem Reap, a rare piece of New Khmer architecture by Laurent Mondet. Aman restored it into twenty four suites, many with private pools, around the original royal swimming pool and courtyards. The property's real asset is access: a fleet of remork carriages and private guides take guests into Angkor Archaeological Park, including arrangements to reach the major temples ahead of the crowds. The scale stays intimate and the service deeply personal, with the same guides and drivers across a stay. For Angkor, the single greatest reason to visit Cambodia, Amansara is the most refined and best connected base, history and access folded into one small property.

Best for: Best for an Angkor temple trip, design and architecture lovers, and travelers who value privileged guided access.

The catch: Siem Reap itself is a working town rather than a resort destination, so the appeal rests almost entirely on the temples and the property, not the surroundings.

Amanjena

"Moorish pavilions and pools in an olive grove outside Marrakech, with the Atlas Mountains on the horizon. Aman's North African set piece."

Why this rank: Amanjena opened in 2000 as Aman's first property in Africa, set in an olive grove on the edge of Marrakech with the snow capped Atlas Mountains visible beyond the palms. Ed Tuttle designed it as an idealised Moroccan estate, ochre pavilions and pise walls around a central basin pool drawn from the region's agricultural reservoirs. Thirty nine pavilions and maisons, several with private pools and fireplaces, are arranged along arcaded walkways and reflecting channels. The aesthetic is grand and formal, closer to a Moorish palace than a riad, a deliberate counterpoint to the medina's intensity twelve minutes away. For travelers who want the romance of Marrakech with space, quiet and mountain views rather than the press of the old city, this is the address.

Best for: Best for a romantic Marrakech escape, a winter sun trip, and travelers who want palace formality with Atlas views.

The catch: The formal estate sits outside the medina, so guests who want to step straight into the souks and street life of old Marrakech will be taking taxis in and out.

Amangalla

"Colonial grandeur inside the UNESCO Galle Fort, in the restored bones of the 1684 New Oriental Hotel. Living history at Aman standard."

Why this rank: Amangalla occupies the New Oriental Hotel building inside the ramparts of Galle Fort, a Dutch colonial structure dating to 1684 and one of the oldest hotels in continuous use in Asia. Aman restored its teak floors, four poster beds and verandas into around thirty rooms and suites, keeping the creak and patina of the original while threading modern comfort underneath. The Baths spa, a hydrotherapy and Ayurveda centre, anchors a property that functions as much as a piece of preserved heritage as a hotel. Set within a working UNESCO World Heritage fort of cobbled lanes, churches and sea walls, Amangalla lets guests step out of the lobby and into four centuries of trading history. For southern Sri Lanka with a sense of place, it is unmatched.

Best for: Best for a heritage led Sri Lanka trip, history lovers, and travelers who want to stay inside a living World Heritage site.

The catch: The fort setting is atmospheric but not a beach resort, so guests after sand and a pool day will be travelling out to the coast.

Amantaka

"A converted French colonial hospital in the heart of UNESCO Luang Prabang. Twenty four suites and the town's defining luxury address."

Why this rank: Amantaka sits in the centre of Luang Prabang, the former royal capital of Laos and a UNESCO World Heritage town where saffron robed monks still collect alms at dawn. The property is built into a cluster of restored early 20th century French colonial buildings, originally a hospital, with twenty four suites, most with private pools, set around courtyards and frangipani gardens. The whitewashed verandas and shuttered windows keep the colonial character intact while the service runs to Aman standard. Walks to the morning alms giving, river trips on the Mekong, and visits to the hilltop temples are arranged through the property. In a town whose appeal is its slow, spiritual rhythm, Amantaka is the most comfortable and best located way to absorb it.

Best for: Best for a slow cultural stay, a Mekong river trip, and travelers drawn to temples and colonial heritage.

The catch: Luang Prabang is deliberately sleepy, so anyone wanting beaches, big city energy or a busy resort scene will find the town and the hotel quiet by design.

Amanyangyun

"Aman's most ambitious salvage project: antique houses and a forest of ten thousand camphor trees moved 700 kilometres to the edge of Shanghai."

Why this rank: Amanyangyun is the result of a fifteen year rescue operation. When a reservoir threatened a village of Ming and Qing dynasty houses and an ancient camphor forest in Jiangxi province, the buildings were dismantled stone by stone, the trees uprooted, and the whole transported some 700 kilometres to a site near Shanghai's Pudong airport, then reassembled. The result is twenty four contemporary ground level suites alongside twenty six restored antique courtyard villas, set among the transplanted camphors. The Nan Shu Fang scholar's studio and a large Aman spa anchor a property that is part resort, part act of cultural preservation. As a day or two of calm before or after Shanghai, or a base that is itself the destination, it has no parallel in the country.

Best for: Best for a Shanghai stopover, design and heritage enthusiasts, and travelers curious about an unrepeatable preservation story.

The catch: The location near the airport rather than the Bund means the city's sights are a long drive away, so this works better as a retreat than a base for sightseeing.

Amanruya

"Stone cottages above the Aegean on the Bodrum peninsula, named for the Turkish word for dream. Quiet, low rise, and adults in spirit."

Why this rank: Amanruya opened in 2011 on a hillside above a private cove near Bodrum, on Turkey's Aegean coast. The name joins Aman with the Turkish ruya, dream, and the property holds thirty six stone cottages, each with a private courtyard and pool, spread low across the slope so nothing rises above the tree line. The design borrows from Anatolian village vernacular, pebbled courtyards, timber shutters and dry stone walls, and the main pool and beach club look west over the Aegean toward the Greek islands. It is one of the quieter, more discreet Amans, with a settled, grown up atmosphere and a kitchen leaning on Aegean produce. For the Turkish Riviera without the noise of the Bodrum club scene, it is the refined alternative.

Best for: Best for a calm Aegean summer, couples who want privacy and a pool villa, and travelers avoiding the Bodrum party circuit.

The catch: The resort closes for the winter season and the low rise cottages are spread across a slope, so the walk to the beach club involves stairs and a buggy ride.

Amanwella

"A clean lined beach Aman on Sri Lanka's southern coast, all curving concrete and a crescent of coconut palms above the Indian Ocean."

Why this rank: Amanwella sits above a crescent bay near Tangalle on Sri Lanka's south coast, a counterpoint to the colonial heritage of its sister property Amangalla up the coast in Galle. Where Amangalla preserves the past, Amanwella is modernist, a sweep of curving concrete and clean lines that Kerry Hill set into a coconut grove above the beach. Thirty suites, each with a private terrace and plunge pool, step down toward a 47 metre pool and a quiet stretch of sand. The mood is contemporary and pared back, the focus on the ocean, the palms and the long pool rather than ornament. As a beach finish to a Sri Lankan itinerary that might start in the cultural triangle and the hill country, it is the relaxed, sea facing bookend.

Best for: Best for a beach finish to a Sri Lanka trip, couples who like modern design, and travelers who want a plunge pool above the sea.

The catch: The southern coast surf can be strong and seasonal, so swimming conditions on the open beach vary, and the contemporary concrete look will feel austere to anyone wanting tropical lushness.