Aegean · Greece & Turkey
Aman's legendary ethos of absolute privacy, translated onto water. A floating sanctuary for those who have stayed at every great hotel — and wanted more.
About This Voyage
“The Aman philosophy was always about the destination you find when you stop trying to find it. Amangati was built for the sea version of that truth.”
There are ninety-five guests aboard Amangati at any one time. The staff-to-guest ratio is one-to-one. The guests do not encounter one another unless they choose to. The suites — the smallest of which is 45 square metres — are designed by Jean-Michel Gathy, the architect responsible for Amanjiwo, Amankila, and Amangiri. The dining room serves the produce of whatever country you are near that day. The spa on Deck 7 offers Aman's signature healing treatments in rooms that smell of wood and mineral water. This is what Aman has always done in its land properties, for forty years: it has removed every possible reason to leave. Amangati does the same thing on a sea that was made for exactly this kind of travel.
The Greek Islands itinerary is a circular voyage departing and returning to Athens — a route that encompasses the Aegean's most significant natural and historical landmarks at a pace that allows them to breathe. From the Cape Sounion promontory with its clifftop Temple of Poseidon, to the thermal springs of Ikaria, the ancient ruins of Ephesus on the Turkish coast, and the monastery of St John on Patmos, this is the Aegean of the ancient poets and the contemporary imagination, experienced without hurry and without the ordinary world's intrusions.
Departing September 2027. Available as scheduled voyage or private charter. Maximum 95 guests scheduled; 48 guests private charter. Martins Travel holds preferred access.
What Is Included
Port by Port
Each port of call has been chosen to reveal a different facet of the journey — arriving by sea as travellers once did, and departing enriched, never hurried.
“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”
Athens (Piraeus), Greece
A private car from Athens city centre or the airport delivers you to Amangati at Piraeus — the port that once dispatched the Athenian fleet and received the spoils of the ancient world. The ship's Aman host receives you in the marina; your suite is open, scented, and stocked. The afternoon belongs to you: perhaps the deck pool overlooking the Saronic Gulf, perhaps the first of many spa treatments, perhaps simply the discovery of where everything is and what everything means. Sunset drinks on the aft deck as Piraeus recedes and the Aegean opens ahead. A private dinner in your suite or at the communal table, depending on preference. Amangati departs at midnight, heading south along the Attic coast.
Aboard Amangati · PiraeusLavrion, Attica, Greece
Amangati anchors off the cape of Sounion at dawn — the southernmost point of the Attic peninsula, where the land falls into the Aegean at a precipice of white marble. The Temple of Poseidon, built in 444 BC, stands on the headland above the sea: sixteen Doric columns on a platform 60 metres above the water, with a view that takes in the Cyclades in one direction and the mountains of the Peloponnese in the other. This is where Aegeus, king of Athens, threw himself from the cliff when he believed his son Theseus had been killed in Crete. The Aman host leads a private early-morning visit before the day-trippers arrive by coach from Athens. Breakfast is served on the aft deck with the temple visible on the headland above. The ship departs by mid-morning, turning into the open Aegean.
Aboard Amangati · Cape SounionMykonos, Cyclades, Greece
Mykonos by yacht is an entirely different island than Mykonos by aeroplane. There is no port scrum, no transfer queue, no suitcase on the cobblestones of Chora. There is a tender to the old port at whatever hour suits you, and a private car waiting above the marina. The island's famous windmills, the labyrinthine whitewashed alleys of Little Venice, the clifftop sunset bars: all available, all navigated without queues. The Aman host has arranged a private dinner at a table in the old town that belongs, for one evening, to your party only. The island's night continues as long as you wish; the tender returns to Amangati on demand. The ship departs for Ikaria before sunrise, the Cyclades receding in the dark.
Aboard Amangati · MykonosIkaria, Eastern Aegean, Greece
Ikaria is one of the world's five Blue Zones — places where people live measurably longer than anywhere else. The island's longevity has been attributed to its thermal springs, its diet, its resistance to hurry, and its deep tradition of communal festivity. Amangati anchors off the village of Agios Kirykos, where the therapeutic thermal springs have been drawing visitors since antiquity — hot water rich in radioactive radon, flowing directly from the rock into pools above the sea. A morning soak in the springs, a walk through the village, a lunch of local wine and grilled octopus. The island's interior rewards those with the appetite for the climb: ancient oak forests, Byzantine monasteries, a landscape that looks as though the twentieth century passed a respectful distance away. The afternoon is yours to spend as the island's inhabitants have always spent theirs: at extreme leisure.
Aboard Amangati · IkariaKuşadası, Turkey
Kuşadası is the port for Ephesus — the most completely preserved ancient city in the Mediterranean world, and perhaps the most impressive archaeological site that most Western travellers will ever visit. Amangati's private guide and vehicle collect your party from the tender at 7.30am, arriving at the Ephesus site before the organised tour groups. The Library of Celsus — two storeys of carved marble façade, the most photographed ruin in Turkey — the Great Theatre that held 25,000 spectators, the Temple of Artemis (one of the Seven Wonders), the Terrace Houses with their intact Roman floor mosaics: Ephesus is not a ruin, it is a city, simply emptied. The House of the Virgin Mary, two kilometres above the city, is visited on the return. Lunch in Kuşadası old town. Return to Amangati by 4pm.
Aboard Amangati · KuşadasıPatmos, Dodecanese, Greece
Patmos is where the apostle John, exiled by the Roman Emperor Domitian, is said to have received and dictated the Book of Revelation — the last and strangest text of the New Testament, written in a cave on this island's northern slope in approximately 95 AD. The island has never forgotten it. The Monastery of St John the Theologian, founded in 1088, crowns the hilltop in a fortified complex of Byzantine architecture and extraordinary frescoes. Amangati anchors in the harbour of Skala; the Aman host has arranged a private visit to the monastery and the Cave of the Apocalypse with a theologian from the monastery's own community. Patmos is a small island, quiet and genuinely otherworldly, where the distance between the ancient world and the present moment feels uncommonly thin. Dinner aboard as the monastery lights appear on the hill above the dark harbour.
Aboard Amangati · PatmosParos, Cyclades, Greece
Paros was the most important source of white marble in the ancient world — the material from which the Venus de Milo and the Hermes of Praxiteles were carved. The island itself is the colour of that marble: brilliant white, blue-shuttered, set in a sea of the most saturated blue in the Aegean. Amangati anchors in the bay at Naoussa — a fishing harbour of exceptional prettiness, its quay lined with tavernas and small boats — for a final morning of the voyage. A walk through the village, a swim from the tender in a bay of extraordinary clarity, a long lunch at a table by the water. In the afternoon, the ship turns northwest, back toward Athens. The Cyclades recede behind; the Attic coast appears ahead. A final dinner on the aft deck as Piraeus lights grow on the horizon. Disembarkation in the morning with private transfers to Athens city centre or the airport.
Disembarkation · Athens (Piraeus)The Onboard Experience
The Vessel · Aegean Sea
Aegean · Greece & Turkey
Amangati carries 95 guests in suites beginning at 45 sqm, each with teak terrace and private butler. The ship has a 200 sqm Aman Spa, two pools, a marina platform with kayaks and Zodiacs, and a private dining room for charter groups. Jean-Michel Gathy designed every surface.
Destination · Day 5
Kuşadası, Turkey
The Library of Celsus at Ephesus — two storeys of carved marble façade, built in 117 AD as a mausoleum and library for 12,000 scrolls — is the most impressive single structure in the ancient Mediterranean world outside Rome. Visited by private guide from Amangati, before the morning tour groups arrive.
Destination · Day 6
Dodecanese, Greece
The fortified Byzantine monastery of St John the Theologian has crowned Patmos's hilltop since 1088. Inside: frescoes, illuminated manuscripts, sacred relics and a community of monks who have maintained an unbroken monastic tradition for nearly a thousand years. From Amangati's aft deck, anchored in Skala harbour, the monastery lights at night are among the most atmospheric views of the Aegean.
Private Enquiry
This voyage is presented as a point of departure. We will tailor the suite category, pre- and post-voyage arrangements, private shore excursions, and any special occasion wishes to your exact preferences. A Martins Travel cruise specialist will respond personally within 24 hours.