From the collection
For First-Time Aman Guests
An orientation for travellers booking their first Aman.
Aman is less a chain than a temperament, and that temperament reads differently in every place. A first booking is rarely a choice between two hotels; it is a choice between two very different journeys.
This selection gathers five addresses where the idea comes through most clearly: city and silence, desert and water, arriving and letting go.
The addresses
Houses in this collection
San Polo, Venedig
Aman Venice
Twenty-four rooms in a 16th-century palazzo, arrival by water gate, a private garden in the middle of Venice.
- Suits:
- Returning Venice travellers and couples who value privacy over infrastructure
- Suggested length:
- Four nights
- Season:
- November to early December, late September
Fifth Avenue, New York
Aman New York
An unusually quiet address on Fifth Avenue — a fireplace in every room, a spa across three floors, the city kept as a view.
- Suits:
- Travellers who know New York through work and want its opposite
- Suggested length:
- Three nights
- Season:
- May, October, the first weeks of December
Otemachi, Tokio
Aman Tokyo
A Japanese hotel lifted to the 33rd floor: washi, stone, cedar and a lobby thirty metres high.
- Suits:
- First-time and returning Japan travellers who want calm above the city
- Suggested length:
- Four nights, ideally combined with Kyoto
- Season:
- Late March to May, October to November
Canyon Point, Utah
Amangiri
Board-formed concrete in the desert, built around a rock — landscape that stays larger than the building.
- Suits:
- Couples and families after space, walking and absolute quiet
- Suggested length:
- Three to four nights
- Season:
- April to May, September to October
Marrakesch, Marokko
Amanjena
A courtyard of ochre pavilions before the Atlas — reflecting pools, olive groves, Marrakech twenty minutes away.
- Suits:
- Travellers who want the city by day and distance from it by evening
- Suggested length:
- Four nights
- Season:
- March to May, October to November
Our perspective
For a first stay we tend to suggest a resort rather than a city address. The restraint in the service reveals itself over several days, and cities rarely leave room for that.
Four to five nights is a good length. Anything shorter delivers the arrival but not the rhythm.
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Where this leads
The Atlas connects what belongs together: the region, the collections, the right season and the houses that sit within the same story.
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One hotel that convinced us. One new opening we are watching. And one travel idea for the right season. Carefully selected and reduced to the essentials.