Originally Posted by Groombridge

I’d never met Gary Tyson, Amantaka’s General Manager, before this stay, but given what he’s accomplished at Amantaka, he is someone we will now follow to whatever resort he happens to oversee. What he has done in creating service standards of the utmost polish and skill in a location where there was no former 5-star experience from which to draw, is astounding. (And if you get a chance, have him tell you about the process he went through of hiring and training new employees in a “fake Amantaka” he created to serve as a training site during the construction of the resort.)

Aman resorts have spoiled many of us by setting the highest bar in the world for service and housekeeping standards, and even within this stiff competition, Amantaka rises to the very top.

Amansara...air-conditioned mini-van – for others by open-air jeep

Amansara...I have confidence that Aman is picking the very best of the best, but we were still disappointed with the level of engagement and enthusiasm of the guides themselves, who did not succeed in bringing the sites to life or really helping us develop much of an understanding of what we were seeing...I hate to think what the average guide to Angkor Wat is like, if these were the very best.