How to Book Amansara: A Modernist Retreat at Angkor

Amansara is a rare thing, a piece of 1960s modernist architecture turned into one of the most intimate hotels in Asia, built as a guest villa for King Norodom Sihanouk and set just ten minutes from the temples of Angkor. With only twenty-four suites, a soaring circular dining room and the most immersive Angkor programme of any hotel in Siem Reap, it is a cultural retreat as much as a resort. Booking through a preferred-partner advisory costs the same as booking direct, with recognition and benefits added at no extra cost.

Siem Reap is the gateway to Angkor, the vast temple complex of the Khmer empire, and Amansara sits close enough to reach the temples before dawn, ahead of the crowds. The hotel's own guides and remork carriages make the Angkor experience the heart of a stay, from Angkor Wat at sunrise to the jungle-wrapped Ta Prohm and quiet, lesser-known temples.

The twenty-four suites are arranged around two swimming pools in the modernist villa, several with their own private pool or garden, finished in the clean lines and warm materials of the original architecture. The scale is small and the service deeply personal.

Dining celebrates Khmer cuisine alongside international dishes, in the sculptural circular dining room, the Khmer Village House and on the roof terrace. Meals are often arranged around the day's temple visits, a breakfast after a sunrise at Angkor, a dinner in a local setting.

Amansara is Angkor from a modernist villa, twenty-four suites and a private way into the greatest temples in Asia.