The Aman Grand Tour of Asia

By Whitney Robinson, Town & Country

“How many have you been to?” asked a flexible couple from Germany after a particularly grueling yoga session around the Olympic-size infinity pool at Amanbagh in the Aravalli Hills, near Jaipur. They were referring to the number of Aman resorts I had visited, in the same way people used to humblebrag about the number of stamps on their passports. Things are evolving in Amanworld, however.

 

The Arrivabene clan calls Aman Venice home.

Since opening the T&C reader favorite Amanpuri on a once desolate stretch of Phuket, Thailand, in 1988, the resort has added 30 properties in 20 countries. The rooms at the newest location, Amanyangyun, in Shanghai, are actually Ming and Qing Dynasty houses rescued from abandoned villages on the Yangtze that were moved 400 miles upstream and recreated on the spot.

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Amanyangyun, China

Aman Le Mélézin, in Courchevel, France, has been remodeled. Two Spa Houses, a new concept for the brand, have opened at Amanoi, in Vietnam. And 2015 brought us the Aman Tokyo, the brand’s first city hotel (New York is rumored to be next), whose soaring rice-papered lobby and 34th-floor basalt-lined pool may be more Instagrammed than Mount Fuji.

Amanemu, Japan

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The best-loved (and much-copied) conceits, like locally made gifts presented each night at turndown, those famous infinity pools, and the indigenous tropical modern architecture created by Kerry Hill and Ed Tuttle, remain. And now, at seven of the sites, including ones in Greece and the Dominican Republic, you can call Aman home.

Amanpulo, Phillipines

That wouldn’t be a big deal apart from the fact that owning land in some of Aman’s more far-flung locales, like a private island in the Philippines, is virtually impossible other-wise. Meanwhile, as I work on securing funds for a second home, I look forward to the 12th installment of my Aman saga.

Amanbagh, India

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