Amangiri

About the hotel

Amangiri opened in 2009 on 600 acres of high desert near the Arizona border, and instantly redefined American luxury: 34 suites of raw concrete pressed into the mesa, built to disappear into the landscape rather than announce itself. Its swimming pool, wrapped around a rock escarpment millions of years old, is one of the most photographed pieces of hotel architecture of the century.

Camp Sarika, a satellite of tented pavilions with private plunge pools, was added in 2020 for guests who find 34 suites too crowded. There is nothing within miles — which is the entire product.

Suites & dining

Suites face the dunes or the mesa, each with private terraces and fire pits; Camp Sarika pavilions add canvas-and-stone seclusion. Dining is a single desert-fed dining room — the resort assumes you came for the silence, the slot canyons and the spa carved into the rock, not a restaurant row.

The celebrity connection

Amangiri is where famous people go to not be seen: the Kardashian-Jenners have made it a recurring family-trip backdrop, and half of young Hollywood's most-liked "desert" posts are shot against its concrete. Its distance from everything — the nearest airport is a strip in Page, Arizona — makes it the rare hotel paparazzi simply cannot work.