Overall, the two are within a point of each other.
Amangiri leads on location (+3); Aman New York on wellness (+1.5), dining (+1) and rooms & design (+0.5). Level on service.
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Canyon Point, USA · Aman
The 900-acre private estate, slot canyons, and total seclusion from the outside world are repeatedly called unmatched in the US.
Amangiri is an Aman desert resort on a private estate of canyons and rock formations in Canyon Point, Utah.
Read the full verdictNew York, USA · Aman
The three-floor spa with Banya, Hammam and cold plunge terraces gets the strongest reactions of the whole stay.
Aman New York is a city-centre property with a jazz club, spa suites with fireplaces, and an indoor pool.
Read the full verdictOut of 20. The bars start at 10, so half a point still shows.
Overall +0.5
Overall: Amangiri 15.5 out of 20, Aman New York 15 out of 20.Service Level Why
Service: Amangiri 13.5 out of 20, Aman New York 13.5 out of 20.Amangiri: Reports split sharply: some describe intuitive, anticipatory staff, others cite unanswered phones, rushed massages, and a 40-minute wait for luggage at checkout.
Aman New York: Front desk and spa staff get praised by name in some stays, but a real share of guests report a missing butler, mixed-up reservations, and slow callbacks.
Rooms & Design +0.5
Rooms & Design: Amangiri 18 out of 20, Aman New York 18.5 out of 20.Location +3 Why
Location: Amangiri 19 out of 20, Aman New York 16 out of 20.Amangiri: The 900-acre private estate, slot canyons, and total seclusion from the outside world are repeatedly called unmatched in the US.
Aman New York: The 57th Street address puts you next to Fifth Avenue shopping, but the lobby sits on the 14th floor and many guest rooms below it get poor views.
Dining +1 Why
Dining: Amangiri 13 out of 20, Aman New York 14 out of 20.Amangiri: Reviews split between lobster thermidor and beef wellington done well and stale burger buns, undercooked pizza, and two-hour dinners with 30-minute drink waits.
Aman New York: Guests call the food fine rather than special for the price, and one wedding-anniversary checkout was disrupted by a lobby flooding incident and billing confusion.
Wellness +1.5 Why
Wellness: Amangiri 16 out of 20, Aman New York 17.5 out of 20.Amangiri: The spa, sound bath, and via ferrata climbing draw real enthusiasm, though one guest described a rushed, aggressive massage.
Aman New York: The three-floor spa with Banya, Hammam and cold plunge terraces gets the strongest reactions of the whole stay, though the pool has run cold and the pool windows are painted over.
Strengths of Amangiri
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Trade-offs of Amangiri
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Amangiri sells one thing nobody else in the US does: total seclusion inside a 900-acre private canyon estate, with architecture that disappears into the rock rather than sitting on top of it. The Desert Pool Suites carve a private pool and sky deck straight into the mesa, and at night the stargazing from the fire pit is the kind of thing people still talk about years later. When the staff is on, the service is quietly anticipatory rather than smothering, and the via ferrata and Navajo-guided slot canyon tours are genuinely the best reason to book more than one night.
The trouble is what you're paying for that has moved a long way from what you get. Guests who went in 2016 at $1,000 a night and go back now at $4,500 to $7,000 describe the same rooms, the same menu, sometimes worse mattresses. Dinner at Camp Sarika can run two hours for four courses with a 30-minute wait just for drinks, and more than one guest has had a 40-minute wait for luggage at checkout or a pool attendant stretched so thin that service simply stopped. The food is the most consistent complaint: stale burger buns, undercooked pizza, a coffee program multiple reviewers call undrinkable. None of that should scare you off a trip you've wanted for years, but it changes how many nights make sense.
Three nights, not one, is the number repeat guests land on, since the activities are the real draw and a single night barely covers one hike and dinner. Book it for the canyon, the via ferrata, and a room unlike anything else in Utah or Arizona, and go in expecting the service and kitchen to be the weakest part of the trip rather than the strongest.
A base room here (Deluxe Suite, roughly 725 square feet) runs from about $1,100 to $3,500 a night depending on season, and what arrives for that is real: Jean-Michel Gathy's dark, warm interiors, a working fireplace, and soundproofing so good you can watch a fire truck go by outside and hear nothing. The building itself, the 1921 Crown Building on 57th Street, is one of the best-designed hotel shells in the city, and the three-floor spa with its Banya and Hammam suites gets more genuine enthusiasm from guests than almost anything else on the property, cold plunge terraces and all.
Where it gets complicated is everything Aman built its name on outside the room. Several guests who've stayed at other Amans describe a butler service that's advertised but doesn't really exist, a concierge that lost a scheduled dinner reservation entirely, and a front desk that can feel like a well-run five-star chain rather than the anticipatory, name-remembering service the brand promises elsewhere. One couple celebrating a tenth anniversary got a chaotic, unresolved checkout after a lobby flooding issue; another found the pool disappointingly cold with no complimentary access to the cold plunge or jacuzzi unless you book the paid Banya treatment. The food is consistently described as good but not memorable, which stings less in a city with this many restaurants but still doesn't match the price tag.
Book it if you want a quiet, beautifully built room to retreat to in Midtown and you're not counting on Aman's resort-level hand-holding to show up. The rooms alone justify a stay for anyone who values a genuinely soundproofed, well-finished space over a livelier boutique address. If personal recognition and a fully realized butler relationship are the point of paying Aman prices, that's inconsistent here. Go for the room and the spa.
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Amangiri: The 900-acre private estate, slot canyons, and total seclusion from the outside world are repeatedly called unmatched in the US. Aman New York: The three-floor spa with Banya, Hammam and cold plunge terraces gets the strongest reactions of the whole stay.
Amangiri is ahead on where it puts you. Aman New York is ahead on the spa. Amangiri adds Desert and Adventure; Aman New York adds Urban and Heritage. Both are tagged Wellness, Architecture, Design and Romantic.
Amangiri leads on this. Amangiri: The 900-acre private estate, slot canyons, and total seclusion from the outside world are repeatedly called unmatched in the US. Aman New York: The 57th Street address puts you next to Fifth Avenue shopping, but the lobby sits on the 14th floor and many guest rooms below it get poor views.
Aman New York leads on this. Amangiri: The spa, sound bath, and via ferrata climbing draw real enthusiasm, though one guest described a rushed, aggressive massage. Aman New York: The three-floor spa with Banya, Hammam and cold plunge terraces gets the strongest reactions of the whole stay, though the pool has run cold and the pool windows are painted over.
Amangiri is in Canyon Point, USA; Aman New York is in New York, USA.
Neither: Amangiri and Aman New York both hold Three Michelin Keys in the Michelin Guide’s 2026 hotel selection. The Keys come from the guide’s own anonymous inspections and are separate from the Fat Score.
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