Aman is the ‘if you know, you know’, of hotel groups. Their lack of advertising and unrivalled feeling of exclusivity means their 34 hotels across the world are the perennial favourite of the world’s elite. The brand is best known for its secluded resorts like Amanpuri in Thailand, Amankila in Bali and Amangiri in the Utah desert, but its city hotels are just as enticing. In 2022, Aman opened the highly anticipated Aman New York – dubbed as the world’s most expensive city hotel – joining favourites like Aman Venice on the Grand Canal (the setting for George and Amal Clooney’s 2014 nuptials), Sri Lanka’s Amangalle and Aman Le Melezin on Courchevel 1850’s manicured Bellecote piste. The hotel group has now turned its attention on the Middle East, with a handful of exciting new openings planned for the upcoming years – from both Aman itself, and spin-off Janu – the younger, soulful sister brand. From a desert retreat in Saudi Arabia to a beach resort in Dubai – here are the luxurious Aman Middle East resorts open now and opening soon.
Aman Middle East: The complete guide
Aman Dubai
Opening 2027
Aman Dubai was announced earlier this year, with the group’s Chairman and CEO Vladislav Doronin teasing it will ‘probably be the most expensive hotel in the UAE’. Aman Dubai set to open on the beautiful coastline of Jumeirah Beach in 2027, set on 350 metres of private sands nearby to the emirate’s most exclusive beach resorts (Four Seasons and Mandarin Oriental). The property will be designed by KHA (Kerry Hill Architects), popular with the Aman brand thanks to its tropical modernist and Japandi-inspired aesthetic, and will feature nine acres of manicured gardens providing intimacy and exclusivity and positioning it as one of the most probative resorts in Dubai. Inside, the property will have a 2,300 square metre Aman Spa, Aman Club and Aman-branded residences and villas (of which only a small amount will be sold), and, in a unique move to Dubai’s other five-star resorts, will be vertical – not horizontal. The three-hectare stretch of the garden will be the hotel’s biggest pull, sitting at the heart of the project and embodying the botanic gardens being created at the group’s one opening in Los Angeles.
Aman AlUla
Opening from 2025
Aman’s resorts are found only in the world’s most beautiful locations, so it’s only right the pioneering brand should set its eyes on magical AlUla. The luxury brand is opening three new hotels in AlUla from 2025, each offering guests a different way to discover the region. The main resort will open in 2025, the tented camp in 2026 and, part of Aman’s more affordable sister brand Janu, a spectacular ranch-style desert resort to live out your Lone Ranger fantasies will open in 2027. s with its existing resorts, Aman will work diligently to preserve the archaeological sites in AlUla and ensure a seamless blending of their properties with the surrounding nature. Each of the three new properties has a different personality for different kinds of vacationers.
Aman Wadi Safar
Opening from 2027
Another beautiful location was chosen by Aman for Aman Wadi Safar, a new resort that will open in Diriyah – the birthplace of Arabia centres around a UNESCO World Heritage Site of At-Turaif. A US$63.2 billion development is transforming the historic area into a heritage, retail, tourism and dining destination, and Aman Wadi Safar will join the five-star line-up, along with a property from sister brand Janu. Aman Wadi Safar will feature 78 rooms alongside 34 fully-service Aman branded residences, bringing iconic concepts like the Aman Spa to the Saudi capital. The design team behind the newly opened Aman New York, Denniston Architects, have been appointed to bring the legendary Jean-Michel Gathy’s design touches to the property, but to perfectly balance them with the locale and Diriyah’s rich culture and heritage. The project will be set away from the central development in the peaceful Wadi Safar area, and no doubt be inspired by the traditional mudbrick Najdi architectural style, as is seen in Diriyuah and the UNESCO site At-Turaif.
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