Amanera
Twenty-five modernist casitas above Playa Grande on the Dominican Republic's north coast, with floor-to-ceiling Atlantic views and an Aman beach club below.
Amanera occupies one of the most strategically positioned plots in the Caribbean: a clifftop above Playa Grande on the Dominican Republic’s north coast, backed by jungle and fronted by the open Atlantic, with 25 casitas and a single private Casa arranged to extract the full panoramic benefit of both.
The casitas are modernist in their architecture (contemporary, clean-lined, built with the floor-to-ceiling glass that makes the Atlantic the permanent horizon), while the interiors deploy the considered materiality that Aman properties achieve across different climates and contexts. Private decks and glass-enclosed bathrooms allow guests to watch both sunrise and sunset from within the suite. A number of casitas have private pools; all have the ocean.
The Playa Grande Golf Course (designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. and later revised by Rees Jones) sits adjacent to the resort and has been called the Pebble Beach of the Caribbean, a comparison that its 18 holes over 370 acres of Atlantic coastline does not entirely resist. It is the first Aman resort to offer access to a full golf course.
Below the clifftop, the beach club at Playa Grande provides a direct counterpoint to the property’s elevated quietude: sand, water, and the informal energy that the casitas above deliberately avoid. Tennis courts, a fitness centre, and several restaurant options complete the picture at sea level.
As a Caribbean stay that prioritises architecture and considered calm over organised entertainment, Amanera makes the Aman argument as well as any property in the portfolio.
