Overall, the two are within a point of each other.
Amanyara leads on location (+1.5) and service (+0.5); Aman New York on wellness (+2.5) and dining (+1.5). Level on rooms & design.
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Providenciales, Turks & Caicos · Aman
The 18,000-acre reserve and secluded beach are the draw.
An Aman resort on an 18,000-acre nature reserve in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos, with villas set along the beach and a private waterway.
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: Amanyara 15.5 out of 20, Aman New York 15 out of 20.Service +0.5 Why
Service: Amanyara 14 out of 20, Aman New York 13.5 out of 20.Amanyara: Reports split hard: regulars name a Winnie or an Oscar who go above and beyond, but just as many describe hit-or-miss training, brushed-off complaints and a rude housekeeping supervisor.
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 Level Why
Rooms & Design: Amanyara 18.5 out of 20, Aman New York 18.5 out of 20.Amanyara: Near-universal praise for the villas, the private pools and the architecture folding into the reserve, with the rooms alone called the best some guests have ever stayed in.
Location +1.5 Why
Location: Amanyara 17.5 out of 20, Aman New York 16 out of 20.Amanyara: The 18,000-acre reserve and secluded beach are the draw, but it’s a rough, pothole-heavy 20-minute drive from Grace Bay and the airport.
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 +1.5 Why
Dining: Amanyara 12.5 out of 20, Aman New York 14 out of 20.Amanyara: Consistently called the weak point, limited to two restaurants with dishes guests call average or overcooked, though the wine list gets singled out as good value.
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 +2.5 Why
Wellness: Amanyara 15 out of 20, Aman New York 17.5 out of 20.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 Amanyara
Strengths of Aman New York
Trade-offs of Amanyara
Trade-offs of Aman New York
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Only at Aman New York
Jean-Michel Gathy's pavilions still do the thing almost nothing else in the Caribbean manages: they disappear into the land. Guests keep describing the same moment of arriving skeptical of the price and leaving stunned by how the teak and limestone dissolve into Malcolm's Beach, one of the last genuinely private, reef-fringed stretches on Providenciales. That reputation is current, not nostalgia — reviews into mid-2026 still single out the beach and the pavilions as unlike anywhere else, and more than one repeat guest describes touring a four-bedroom villa and reconsidering their whole trip.
Service splits hard along one line: the Turkish secondment staff get named, individually, as exceptional, while local staff draw complaints about inattention at the bar and spa, regardless of whether the room ran $3,000 or the full week ran $27,000. Food is the other recurring letdown, with two restaurants and a menu guests call repetitive rather than bad.
Go for the architecture and a beach that photographs like nowhere else, accept that a Four Seasons handles service more evenly, and this is worth the trip. Travelers who want round-the-clock anticipation tend to land at Amanera instead — but nothing else on this island touches the pavilions or the reef right off the sand.
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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Amanyara: The 18,000-acre reserve and secluded beach are the draw. Aman New York: The three-floor spa with Banya, Hammam and cold plunge terraces gets the strongest reactions of the whole stay.
Amanyara is ahead on where it puts you. Aman New York is ahead on the spa. Amanyara adds Beach, Island and Adults-Only; Aman New York adds Urban, Design and Heritage. Both are tagged Architecture, Romantic and Wellness.
Amanyara leads on this. Amanyara: The 18,000-acre reserve and secluded beach are the draw, but it’s a rough, pothole-heavy 20-minute drive from Grace Bay and the airport. 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. Amanyara: Consistently called the weak point, limited to two restaurants with dishes guests call average or overcooked, though the wine list gets singled out as good value. 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.
Amanyara is in Providenciales, Turks & Caicos; Aman New York is in New York, USA.
Aman New York, with Three Michelin Keys in the Michelin Guide’s 2026 hotel selection; Amanyara holds One Key. The Keys come from the guide’s own anonymous inspections and are separate from the Fat Score.
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