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...rooms start at about $800 per night, guests are encouraged to fill out a "favorites" form before they arrive. The hotel then welcomes them with fruit, chocolates, music or flowers to suit their tastes. "You have to give your guests a warm, genteel, caring kind of feeling," says Adrian Zecha, whose 18 minimalist Amanresorts--from Bhutan to Morocco to Jackson Hole, Wyo.--epitomize the new ideal of understated luxury. His Amanyara retreat in Turks and Caicos, which opened in 2006, features 40 teak-lined cabanas, and guests are welcomed not at a formal reception desk but by open-air pavilions...
...retreats - aman means "peace" in Sanskrit - came to Jackson Hole,[an error occurred while processing this directive] its only U.S. property. Building the 40-suite Amangani hotel was a test of endurance, as it took 10 years to acquire the plot, but for the group's founder, Indonesian Adrian Zecha, it was love at first sight. "I still remember my arrival, after a long, long journey from Hong Kong," he says. "It was late afternoon, and in the fading sunlight the snow-capped top of Grand Teton looked like molten gold." Floor-to-ceiling window walls ensure guests also enjoy...
...fires. Rawhide-and-rattan chairs are paired with black terrazzo tables in the 65-seat restaurant, whose eclectic menu stretches from Peking duck to elk steak. A 35-m swimming pool and whirlpool accompany full spa facilities. Originality and exclusivity makes Amangani a big hit with celebrity guests, but Zecha insists its real draw is its nonflashy approach. "Just don't say it's Zen-like," he urges. "It's so pretentious, and that's what we try to shy away from." tel: (1-307) 734 7333; www.amangani.com
Hideaway-resort king Adrian Zecha, of Amanresorts, is restoring Galle's 300-year-old New Oriental Hotel, a veritable museum of Dutch-colonial furnishings. He is also creating a beach resort in Tangalla and will no doubt take his celebrity clients with him. If Sri Lanka is calling you, now is the time to make a move...
...single one between the Suez Canal and Phuket. "I now term this part of southern Sri Lanka as the Serendip Riviera. The stretch from Galle to Tangalla will in time become the best address in the Indian Ocean." Amanresorts, the ultra-chic chain run by Adrian Zecha, is moving in too. Zecha is restoring Galle's New Oriental Hotel, a 300-year-old Dutch barracks that was converted into a hotel by the British in the early 19th century. During the civil war, visiting foreign correspondents were usually the only guests in this museum of Dutch-colonial furniture and cavernous...