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Where to Stay in Siem Reap – the City's Most Luxurious Hotels. Park Hyatt Siem Reap, Cambodia. Copyright © 2023 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Where to Stay in Siem Reap – the City’s Most Luxurious Hotels

Considering the abundance of gorgeous shops and superb restaurants, cafes and bars that Siem Reap boasts, it’s not surprising that this laidback Cambodian city also has some beautiful luxurious hotels.

There are a colossal number of hotels in Siem Reap, from budget places to five stars, and an array of interesting options, making it easy to avoid the cookie-cutter accommodation targeted at tour groups. As we were working on a story on the city’s chic side for an Asian travel magazine, we were lucky to test out some of Siem Reap’s most fashionable and most luxurious sleeps.

Siem Reap’s Most Luxurious Hotels

AMANSARA

From the moment the Amansara staff collected us from the airport in a very cool 1965 Mercedes stretch limo and handed us bottles of water and cold scented face towels, we knew we were in for an indulgent experience in one of the most luxurious hotels we’ve ever stayed in. If you’ve stayed at an Aman resort before, then you’ll know what I’m talking about. If you haven’t, then make it a priority to do so. (We’ve also stayed at Amantaka, Luang Prabang; that post is coming soon).

The Amansara is an exquisitely beautiful property. Set in a walled garden compound, it’s elegant yet understated. The former guesthouse of King Norodom Sihanouk, it was built in the early 1960s in a sleek, low-rise, modernist style that’s all lines and curves. The natural materials of the exterior architecture (whole stones, dark wood) match the neutral shades of the interiors (white, ivory, beige). It’s intimate and compact – there are just 24 suites at Siem Reap (the same at Luang Prabang) – yet the rooms are super-spacious, with courtyards and plunge pools, big bathtubs, and huge beds.

Guests are allocated their own private remork (the Cambodian tuk-tuk) with driver and guide and an itinerary scheduled with early morning and late afternoon excursions to explore the Angkor temples. It was on these outings that we got to experience a handful of the famed archaeological sites with a knowledgeable guide. If you have other interests – whether it’s textiles or cooking, hot-air ballooning or biking – staff can arrange activities. There’s a spa with a long list of treatments to speed up the body’s recovery after days hiking the ruins, a library filled with reading material so you can brush up on your Cambodian history, and occasional lectures and dance performances.

The food is also fantastic. Based on the freshest of seasonal produce, the Khmer cuisine was some of the finest we had in Siem Reap. The only reason we didn’t include it in our guide to Eating Out in Siem Reap is because the restaurant is not open to the public. Guests can also dine whenever they like, there’s no need for reservations, and we were invited to drop into the cheese room and wine cellar or help ourselves to a cocktail.

But it’s the outstanding service that really distinguishes the Amansara. Staff greets guests warmly when they see them around the property, however, they’re discreet and unobtrusive. Every time we returned to our room, cold beers in the complimentary mini-bar would have been replaced, the bed would magically be made, and towels would be refreshed, without us having ever had a knock at the door or having even seen a housekeeping trolley.

And staff knew when to bring just what we needed: a refreshing drink and light snack of fresh spring rolls greeted us upon arrival, a bath had been ran to wash away the dust and sweat after an afternoon scrambling around the ruins; and in the evening, there was champagne on ice and snacks. And if we were wowed by the welcome, we were touched by the farewell. All the staff came to say goodbye and wave us off and were still waving until our car was out of sight. It’s an Aman tradition. And it’s a charming one at that.
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The Park Hyatt Siem Reap

Designed by the renowned Thai-based architecture and landscape designer Bill Bensley in 2002, on the site of the original 1957 Hotel de la Paix, the property is inspired by the Art Deco era as much as the ancient Angkor architecture. Yet while the main building features the monumental blocks synonymous with Art Deco (while tipping a hat to Khmer temple design), the corridors are wide, and the interior spaces are lofty (the soaring atrium is 20-metres high), once again, due to the friendliness of the staff, the 107-room property somehow seems intimate.

With the Hyatt brand taking over operations the hotel, it was renamed The Park Hyatt Siem Reap from Hotel de la Paix but still with the original owners. Bill Bensley returned to remodel the hotel and it received an ‘interesting’ reception, with most who knew the hotel well preferring the original.

The rooms at the The Park Hyatt Siem Reap after the renovation are more colourful and more lavish, with Bensley stating that he “…wanted to achieve a mood of an opulent Cambodian home…”. The rooms are very comfortable and the suites expansive. The beautiful courtyard and Bensley’s signature outdoor swinging chairs and tables remain.

While the hotel revamp itself keeps the spirit of the old and much-loved hotel, the new food and beverage outlets are a disappointment. The fantastic restaurant Meric – where chef Joannès Rivière refined his take on Khmer cuisine – has been replaced with ‘The Dining Room’ where you can still taste some Cambodian fare, but it’s just not as refined as Rivière’s award-winning cuisine.

While the Amansara is a ten-minute stroll into the centre and many of the brand hotels a long way from the city centre, The Park Hyatt Siem Reap is slap bang in the middle of Siem Reap, with the market, restaurants, bars and cafés within a couple of minutes’ walk making it the best choice for those who want to play it safe with a big brand-name luxurious hotels.

Book the Park Hyatt Siem Reap online with our booking partner Booking.com.

BELMOND LA RESIDENCE D’ANGKOR

Located opposite the leafy riverbank and set amongst lush palm-filled gardens dotted with serene ponds, the relaxing La Residence d’Angkor, an Orient-Express property, couldn’t be more different to Hotel de la Paix and Amansara, yet it’s still a very special one of Siem Reap’s luxurious hotels.

The accommodation surrounds an enormous, alluring, deep green swimming pool, giving the hotel more of a tropical resort-feel than the other two properties. Plenty of sun-beds shaded by umbrellas, pool staff on hand to top up cold drinks, and a basket full of sunblocks and lotions you can help yourself to, make this a great choice for guests intent on working on their tan as much as exploring temples.

The rustic Khmer-inspired architecture, with buildings constructed from local hardwoods and bamboo, and decorated with traditional silk textiles, also work to create a more Cambodian atmosphere and experience. As do the traditional Khmer dinner shows with mesmerizing apsara dance performances and folk dancing held several nights a week in the hotel restaurant, The Dining Room (see this post).

While the pared-back resort-style rooms – with polished wooden floors, deck chairs on the veranda, mosquito net-covered beds, and colourful silk scatter cushions on day beds – are perfectly comfortable, they don’t offer the same level of luxury and attention to detail as those at the Amansara and Hotel de la Paix. This is the hotel to choose if you want a slightly more casual environment.

The Dining Room serves both Khmer cuisine and an international menu that was very French focused when we ate there, as well as an outdoor BBQ restaurant by the pool that I wish we’d had time to try, a casual pool bar-café, and the lovely, breezy Martini Lounge (our review here), which was a wonderful spot for a post-dinner drink. They do Asian-inspired killer cocktails.

The hotel can also arrange tours to the temples and surrounding sights, such as Tonle Sap Lake. There’s also a spa that offers yoga and meditation among its treatments, including complimentary meditation sessions with monks, which could be a nice relaxing (and more spiritual) alternative to a massage. Next time…
Book Belmond La Residence d’Angkor online with our booking partner Booking.com.

Note on Siem Reap’s Luxurious Hotels

As we only write about accommodation we’ve stayed at and recommend, this guide is obviously not comprehensive  – there are many more luxurious hotels in Siem Reap. We also have strict criteria for accommodation we choose to review on Grantourismo: properties must align with our slow and sustainable travel philosophies, they must ‘give back’ to their community in some way, offer experiential and/or local travel experiences, and have those same ‘home away from home’ qualities we value – space, flexibility, privacy, intimacy, comfort, an idiosyncratic style, attention to detail, thoughtful touches, and welcoming and friendly staff.

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About Lara Dunston

A travel and food writer who has experienced over 70 countries and written for The Guardian, Australian Gourmet Traveller, Feast, Delicious, National Geographic Traveller, Conde Nast Traveller, Travel+Leisure Southeast Asia, DestinAsian, TIME, CNN, The Independent, The Telegraph, Sunday Times Travel Magazine, AFAR, Wanderlust, International Traveller, Get Lost, Four Seasons Magazine, Fah Thai, Sawasdee, and more, as well as authored more than 40 guidebooks for Lonely Planet, DK, Footprint, Rough Guides, Fodors, Thomas Cook, and AA Guides.

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  1. Alex says

    January 2, 2012 at 2:16 am

    It’s funny to read coverage of Cambodia so close to my own trip there- and we had many overlapping story ideas! I didn’t stay anywhere quite this luxurious, but even on the budget end I was overwhelmed by the hospitality in the places I featured in my own “Where to Stay in Siem Reap” story.

  2. Lara Dunston says

    January 2, 2012 at 1:40 pm

    You know what they say… great minds think alike and all that ;)

    We don’t stay in luxury hotels *all* the time. It really depends on why we’re in a place. In this case, it was what the story called for. Next time we’ll be looking for an apartment, I think, so expect to see very different reviews.

    We’ll pop across and check out your story!

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If you’re still looking for food inspo for Chris If you’re still looking for food inspo for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day meals, my smoked salmon ‘carpaccio’ recipe is one of dozens of recipes in this compilation of our best Christmas recipes (link below). 

The Christmas recipe compilation includes collections of our best Christmas breakfast recipes, best Christmas brunch recipes, best Christmas starter recipes, best Christmas cocktails, best Christmas dessert recipes, and homemade edible Christmas gifts and more.

My smoked salmon carpaccio recipe makes an easy elegant appetiser that’s made in minutes. If you’re having guests over, you can make the dish ahead by assembling the salmon, capers and pickled onions, and refrigerate it, then pour on the dressing just before serving. 

Provide toasted baguette slices and bowls of additional capers, pickles and dressing, so guests can customise their carpaccio. And open the bubbly!

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If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I sh If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I shared a collection of recipes for homemade edible Christmas gifts — for condiments, hot sauces, chilli oils, a whole array of pickles, spice blends, chilli salt, furakake seasoning, and spicy snacks, such as our Cambodian and Vietnamese roasted peanuts. 

I love giving homemade edibles as gifts as much as I love receiving them. Who wouldn’t appreciate jars filled with their favourite chilli oils, hot sauces, piquant pickles, and spicy peanuts that loved-ones have taken the time to make? 

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This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’ This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’s perfect if you’re just back from the fish markets armed with luxurious fresh crab meat. It’s a little sweet, a little spicy, and very, very moreish.

Our crab omelette recipe was one of our 22 most popular egg recipes of 2022 on our website Grantourismo and it’s no surprise. It’s appeared more times than any other egg recipes on our annual round-ups of most popular recipes since Terence launched Weekend Eggs when we launched Grantourismo in 2010.

If you’re an eggs lover, do check out the recipe collection. It includes egg recipes from right around the world, from recipes for classic kopitiam eggs from Singapore and Malaysia and egg curries from India and Myanmar to all kinds of egg recipes from Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Mexico, USA, Australia, UK, and Ireland.

And do browse our Weekend Eggs archives for further eggspiration (sorry). We have hundreds of egg recipes from the 13 year-old series of recipes for quintessential egg dishes from around the world, which we started on our 2010 year-long global grand tour focused on slow, local and experiential travel. 

We’re hoping 2023 will be the year we can finally publish the Weekend Eggs cookbook we’ve talked about for years based on that series. After we can find a publisher for the Cambodia cookbook of course... :( 

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I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angko I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angkor Archaeological Park, home to stupendous Angkor Wat, pictured, celebrated 30 years of its UNESCO World Heritage listing. 

That’s as good an excuse as any to put this magnificent, sprawling archaeological site on your travel list this year.

While riverside Siem Reap, your base for exploring Angkor is bustling once more, there are still nowhere near the visitors of the last busy high season months of December-January 2018-2019 when there were 290,000 visitors. 

Last month there were just 55,000 visitors and December feels a little quieter. A tour guide friend said there were about 150 people at Angkor Wat for sunrise a few days ago.

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Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky, flavourful and succulent chicken thighs that are fantastic with steamed rice, Chinese greens or a salad, such as a Southeast Asian slaw. 

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Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re mak Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re making with my market haul from Psar Samaki in Siem Reap — all for a whopping 10,000 riel (US$2.50)?! 

Birds-eye chillies thrown in for free! They were on my list but the seller I spent most at (5,000 riel!) scooped up a handful and slipped them into my bag. She was my last stop and knew what I was making.

My Khmer is poor, even after all our years in Cambodia, as I don’t learn languages with the ease I did in my 20s, plus I’m mentally exhausted after researching and writing all day. I have a better vocabulary of Old and Middle Khmer than modern Khmer from studying the ancient inscriptions for the Cambodian culinary history component of our cookbook I’m writing.

So when one seller totalled my purchases I thought she said 5,000 riel but she handed back 4,500 riel! The sum total of two huge bunches of herbs and kaffir lime leaves was 500 riel.

Tip: if visiting Siem Reap, use Khmer riel for local shopping. We’ve mainly used riel since the pandemic started— rarely use US$ now as market sellers quote prices in riels, as do local shops and bakeries, and I tip tuk tuk drivers in riels. I find prices quoted in riels are lower.

Psar Samaki is cheaper than Psar Leu, which is cheaper than Psar Chas, as it’s a wholesale market, which means the produce is fresher. I see veggies arriving, piled high in the back of vehicles, with dirt still on them — as I did on this trip. 

The scent of a mountain of incredibly aromatic pineapples offloaded from the back of a dusty ute was so heady they smelt like they’d just been cut. More exotic European style veggies arrive by big trucks in boxes labelled in Vietnamese (from Dalat) and Mandarin (from China), such as beautiful snow-white cauliflower I spotted.

Note: the freshest produce is sold on the dirt road at the back of the market.

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

The dish is inspired by bún chả, a Hanoi specialty, but it’s not bún chả. No matter what Google or food bloggers tell you. Names are important, especially when cooking and writing about cuisines not our own.

This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bún thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bún bò Nam Bộ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bộ=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs. 

Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

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It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour matches the furnishings of our rented apartment. So, no, I did not colour-coordinate the interiors to match our cat’s eyes. 

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