Amanvari Opens August 2026: Aman's First Mexico Resort Lands on Baja's East Cape

We've watched this one inch closer for six years, and it's finally here: Amanvari — the first Aman resort in Mexico — opens August 1, 2026, on the East Cape of Baja California Sur. Not in the high-rise glare of the Cabo San Lucas marina. Not in the Tourist Corridor. An hour north, inside the 1,500-acre Costa Palmas estate, where the desert collides with three uninterrupted miles of swimmable Sea of Cortez beach.

If you've been waiting to see what Aman would do with Baja, this is it. Eighteen casitas. Private heated pools. A contemporary temazcal. A beach club called Nura. Rates that start at $4,500 a night.

Why it matters for Cabo

Aman doesn't open often, and when it does, the surrounding real estate market reorganizes around it. Amanvari is Aman's sixth property in the Americas and the Caribbean — joining Amangiri, Amangani, Amansara, Amanyara, and Amanera — and it cements East Cape as the next chapter in Los Cabos luxury. The same coastline that hosts the Four Seasons at Costa Palmas now anchors Aman's Mexico debut. Two of the most exacting hotel brands in the world, twenty minutes apart, on a beach you can actually swim.

Where it actually is

Forget the maps in your head. Costa Palmas sits on the Sea of Cortez side, an hour's drive northeast of Los Cabos International (SJD). If you charter, the on-site Punta Colorada airstrip is twenty minutes from the resort by car. By helicopter, fifteen minutes flat. There's a private FBO (PrimeSky) for guests who fly direct.

The geography itself is the pitch. The East Cape is the part of Baja that resort developers ignored for fifty years because it had no electricity, no paved road, and no airport. Now it has all three — plus a marina with deep-water yacht slips, a Robert Trent Jones Jr. golf course, and a beach where you can swim straight in. That last part matters: most of the iconic Cabo shoreline isn't safe for swimming. The East Cape is.

The casitas: 18 of them, 833 square feet each

Eighteen rooms. That's the whole hotel. Each casita is 82 square meters (833 square feet), each with a private heated pool, an outdoor shower, a covered terrace, and indoor-outdoor sightlines built around Baja's shifting light. Four categories, all on or near the water:

• Beachfront Casitas — sand at your feet, sea outside the door
• Elevated Casitas — set back, raised, framed Sea of Cortez views
• Horizon Casitas — pure ocean, no obstruction
• Estuary Casitas — overlooking the Costa Palmas estuary, where bird life and bigger views meet

The Aman design language, translated for Baja

The architecture was originally drawn by Heah & Co. and brought to life by Elastic Architects. The material vocabulary is unmistakably Aman — minimal, deliberate, nothing decorative — and re-translated for the desert and the coastline: natural stone, sand-toned plaster, tropical hardwoods, and what Aman describes as "fair-faced white concrete, meticulously prepared and hand-applied on site by master artisans."

Translation: it doesn't look like anything else being built in Cabo right now. The Tourist Corridor's resort architecture leans into volume, glass, and gold. Amanvari leans the other way — low-slung, cream-toned, almost monastic. It looks like the desert decided to make a hotel.

The restaurants

Five dining venues for eighteen rooms is a serious ratio. Each one is its own kitchen with its own identity:

• Sesui — Japanese, the kind Aman does well (Amanyara's Nama is its closest cousin)
• Arva — Italian. Pasta, wood-fired, vegetable-forward
• Luma — Baja-rooted, open-fire cooking. The most regional of the three
• The Lounge — cocktails, lighter plates, the place you go for a late-night Margarita
• Nura Beach Club — feet-in-sand, all-day, day-into-night

The brief on Luma is what we're most excited about. Aman hires local. They've been quietly assembling the team for two years.

The spa, and yes — the temazcal

The Amanvari Spa is six private treatment rooms, two Hydro Houses (one banya, one hammam), a 24-hour fitness center, and — the detail we like most — a contemporary temazcal. The pre-Hispanic sweat lodge ceremony, reframed in Aman's design vocabulary. It's the kind of thing that, done well, turns a stay into something you tell people about for years.

Wellness experiences also include yoga, breathwork, sound bath, and full custom programming. Pair it with snorkeling, diving, horseback riding through the mangroves, hiking the dry arroyos, swimming a cenote, or wandering Costa Palmas's 18 acres of organic orchards and farms.

What it costs

Rates start at $4,500 per night in low season and climb past $7,000 at peak — and that's the all-in number. Taxes, fees, breakfast, in-room mini-bar, and non-alcoholic beverages are included. (Aman has done this for years across the portfolio. It's part of why a stay at Aman doesn't deliver bill shock at checkout the way a stay at a comparable resort might.)

The Aman Residences

If a stay isn't enough, you can own. The Aman Residences at Costa Palmas are a separate offering — Beachfront, Estuary, Oceanfront, and Golf Villa configurations — branded, serviced, and folded into Amanvari's hospitality engine. The Beachfront Villas have already started trading at numbers that are reshaping the East Cape comps.

The honest @Cabo take

We've been booking the East Cape for years — well before Costa Palmas was finished, when the road north of San José was half-paved and you brought your own ice. We've watched Four Seasons land at Costa Palmas and recalibrate the area. Amanvari is going to recalibrate it again. Eighteen rooms means availability will be scarce by structural design; expect the first six months to sell out the moment they go live, then pricing power to harden.

If you've been thinking about an East Cape trip — or about buying out there — this is the year to lock it down. The Aman effect doesn't unwind, and Costa Palmas pricing tends to move in one direction once a brand of this caliber stamps its name.

Want to stay there?

Reservations are open as of May 2026 for stays starting August 1. We're booking Amanvari for our concierge guests as part of larger Cabo + East Cape itineraries — yacht days down the coast, dinners on the Sea of Cortez side, a few days at Aman, the rest of the trip at a Costa Palmas or Cabo villa. Reply or message us and we'll build it.

— @Cabo