Originally Posted by
vuittonsofstyle
I just caught up with this and agree it was a horrible experience. Sadly, I think that this typifies some of the Amans these days - less so in Asia, but elsewhere, for sure. The early days of SS were superb, especially when Jean-Pierre Baratin opened the resort. Kevin Brooke went on to do a good job, but last time I was there, it did seem to have changed - Russian weddings, drones over the beach and a lack of direction throughout. As Pausanias says in a later post, he was there at the beginning of Aman in 1988 and it was wonderful (I was also there back then), but like him, Iwould not wish to be there at the end.
This whole experience and thread is turning into an epic psychodrama and mystery... How is this not yet resolved and how did things get to this point with this Aman property? It is so disappointing and only serves to reinforce to the extreme your position that the Aman legend is very sadly nearing the end.