Originally Posted by
Hubertus
What?? Sounds like a nightmare...this is a very good reason to cancel all my plans about Amangiri.
Isn't peace the very essence of the Aman philosophy?
I was at Amangiri for Memorial Day weekend last year, and to my great delight there wasn't a single child there. I'm feeling very lucky after having read the post below--Amangiri's pool area is very intimate, so even a handful of children would absolutely ruin the experience, sending me running for the spa instead. (Although there's no pool at the spa, just a sun deck.)
Similarly, no children at all when I was at Amanyara. But kids EVERYWHERE at Amanwana, bizarrely. So I guess it's just the luck of the draw.
The worst experience I've had with kids anywhere, though, was at Four Seasons Tented Camp, where the new GM has become horribly lax about the published age restriction. There were at least 4 different, unrelated families with children under 10 when I was there last month, and they were terrors--running around the dining area, shrieking, poking people with the Smores sticks, inserting themselves into other groups' conversations, etc. I really liked the Tented Camp, but it would have been a truly wonderful place if they'd simply stuck to their policy of creating an atmosphere free of young children. (I finally asked one of the parents how they'd been able to avoid the age restriction, and they said they'd simply called and demanded to speak to the GM, and he waived the policy without a second thought. Shame on him, as other guests, like ourselves, had selected that property explicitly because it had been sold as a child-free resort.)