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Shinta Mani Angkor and Bensley Collection Pool Villas Shinta Mani Angkor and Bensley Collection Pool Villas

Welcome to Shinta Mani Angkor and Bensley Collection Pool Villas. An upscale boutique property created by acclaimed architect Bill Bensley, this exceptional hotel enjoys a tranquil and leafy setting within the French Quarter of Siem Reap.

Shinta Mani Angkor rooms are complete with minimal chic interiors and accessories.

Khmer Tonics

Khmer Tonics Spa is a sanctuary of serenity and a haven of refuge where the body is restored to exuberant well-being, good health and wholeness.

Shinta Mani Angkor offers an incredible choice of culinary delights to fulfill your every desire.

The Bensley Collection Pool Villas

Having brought to life Shinta Mani Angkor, Bill Bensley wanted to take the Shinta Mani experience to a more luxurious proposition, so he created an exclusive set of 10 villas with private pools.

Set within the Shinta Mani Angkor Gardens, the Bensley Collection Pool Villas have their own facilities and Bensley Butlers to look after your every need.

Rooms Bayon Room

Bayon Rooms are located within footsteps of the swimming pool and tropical surrounds, or on the first floor of the courtyard style resort and have balcony views over the...

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Rooms Angkor Superior

Angkor Superior rooms are located on the first floor of the hotel and offer comfortable and stylish accommodation with modern facilities.

Rooms Angkor Deluxe

Our Angkor Deluxe Rooms which can accommodate an extra bed are perfect for family getaways or couples who enjoy extra living space.

Rooms Bayon Junior Suite

Bayon rooms are located either within footsteps of the swimming pool and their surrounding tropical gardens, or on the first floor of the courtyard style resort with balconies...

Rooms Bayon Executive Suite

The Bayon Executive Suites are located on the Second floor with balcony views of the urban streetscape.

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Jungle to Temples

The ultimate luxury tour of cambodia, siem reap: a haven for romance, angkor ultimate experience, family adventure package, stay more, save more, angkor heritage, private pool villa getaway, sustainability.

Shinta Mani Hotels and Resorts exists to support the work of the Shinta Mani Foundation – your stay with Shinta Mani really does benefit the people, communities, animals and ecosystems of Cambodia.

We have just returned from a holiday in Vietnam and Cambodia, where a highlight was our stay at the Shinta Mani Angkor hotel in Siem Reap. From the welcoming glass of champagne on arrival until they waved farewell when we left, the staff could not have been more friendly and helpful.

Open doors - open hearts is the mantra of the Shinta Mani Foundation and all that it encompasses and achieves. It not only opened our heart, but we left a little piece behind with these wonderful, welcoming and giving souls.

Designed by architect Bill Bensley, the boutique hotel is part of a community program that lets guests meet locals from rural Cambodia and help support the Shinta Mani Foundation.

I have stayed at a lot of hotels around the world, but the service and staff at this hotel has been the best! Every member of staff I had a dealing with remembered our names the next time we came into contact.

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Phum Baitang is the proud recipient of the Green Hotel Award and the Sustainable Tourism Award, honored by the Asean committee in 2022. These prestigious recognitions credit Phum Baitang’s continued and evolving dedication to green operations, most notably the resort’s use of renewable energies, the recent installation of an autonomous water treatment facility, and a sustainable supply chain.

This elegant retreat is set among eight hectares of lush tropical gardens around 15 minutes away from downtown Siem Reap.

The resort's 45 traditionally designed villas each reflect Cambodia's rich heritage, with 20 benefiting from their own private plunge pool. Aside from the luxurious villas the resort offers guests a wide range of amenities including a spacious pool area, tranquil spa, two restaurants and a cocktail lounge set within a 100-year-old Cambodian farmhouse.

The beautiful setting, serene atmosphere and excellent facilities will allow guests to experience the wonders of Siem Reap at a truly relaxing pace.

OUR RATING: Deluxe

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Tour ideas in Siem Reap

Our itineraries are there to spark ideas for how you could include a stay at Phum Baitang as part of your trip. Treat them simply as suggestions, because every aspect of the trip we create for you will be yours to define.

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Location & places nearby

Places & hotels on the map, alternative places to stay nearby.

Where possible, we like to offer a range of accommodation for each stop of your trip, chosen by our specialists as some of their favorite places to stay. To help you make the right choice, we give each property a rating based on its facilities and service, but we also look for hotels with distinct character or a location that can’t be bettered.

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Experiences while staying here.

The following activities are designed to give you the most authentic experiences of the area where you’re staying. We work with local guides, who use their knowledge and often a resident’s eye to show you the main sights and more out-of-the-way attractions. Our specialists can also suggest outdoor pursuits and activities, such as cooking classes, that will introduce you to the traditions of the area’s inhabitants.

Angkor Wat at sunset

Believed to be the world's largest religious building, this temple is the perfect fusion of symbolism and symmetry and a source of pride and strength to all Khmers. Watching the sun set, sat on one of the temple's ancient walls is a magical experience.

Birdwatching at Prek Toal Biosphere & Tonle Sap Lake

This excursion is not only a great birdwatching opportunity but also offers a fascinating insight into life on the lake. The village of Prek Toal is one of the largest floating villages on the lake.

Cooks in tuk-tuks cooking class

Join a Cambodian chef and go shopping at the local market for fresh locally-grown ingredients. You explore several classic Khmer dishes and enjoy tasting the end result at a traditional Khmer-style luncheon. The class takes three to four hours.

Siem Reap and nearby places

• Temples of Angkor 5 miles away
• Battambang 46 miles away
• Banteay Chhmar 69 miles away
• Preah Vihear 92 miles away
• Koh Kong 134 miles away
• Phnom Penh 144 miles away
• Kratie & Chhlong 160 miles away
• Sihanoukville 191 miles away
• Kampot 192 miles away
• Kep 202 miles away

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Introduce your clients to the new siem reap.

Cambodia’s temple town is slowly raising its luxury game, with both hotels and restaurants adding more upmarket appeal, while a lost city hidden in the jungle offers an alternative to crowded Angkor Wat

In 2005 I rumbled into Siem Reap in a spluttering taxi, arriving overland from Bangkok. Its roads were unpaved, and my family-run hotel charged £10 a night. One day, I snuck into the nearby Hotel de la Paix to laze by the pool at what was then one of Siem Reap’s few five-star hotels.

Nineteen years later, I fly into the shiny new Siem Reap-Angkor International airport. Although an hour’s drive from Siem Reap (its predecessor was closer), it accommodates more planes, including services hopping over from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh, both connected to the UK via recently launched Vietnam Airlines routes.

The centrally located Hotel de la Paix is now the Park Hyatt Siem Reap, one of numerous luxury hotels. The Raffles Grand Hotel d’Angkor is the oldest – a time capsule founded in 1932, taken over by Khmer Rouge soldiers in the 1970s and used as a base for various Angkor Wat-admiring celebrities, including Charlie Chaplin in 1936. Reminders of its history include the wrought iron elevator and suite names honouring former guests such as Jacqueline Kennedy. I learn more about its past during a chat with in-house historian Saravann, who points to the hotel’s gardens. “Years ago, this is where elephants would collect guests and take them to Angkor Wat,” he says.

More recent newcomers are forging their own path. At the art-filled Jaya House River Park (Cambodia’s first plastic-free hotel and the preferred base of various operators, including Experience Travel Group), there’s an Insta-friendly sofa made from fluffy duck toys in the lobby. There’s a plethora of inclusions – clients who stay here will enjoy a complimentary mini-bar and laundry, spa treatments and flasks from Refill Not Landfill, an organisation founded by the hotel’s managing director, Christian de Boer.

Then there’s the French Quarter’s Aviary Hotel, close to the artefact-stuffed Angkor National Museum and the Old Market, a brilliant spot for souvenirs and Cambodian silk. Used by various tour operators (such as Newmarket Holidays and Audley Travel), it’s modern and minimalist, with 43 rooms combining Palm Spring-style pops of colour with art deco furniture.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT 

The hotel’s highlights include Fumizen, a slick Japanese restaurant signalling that Siem Reap’s culinary scene has evolved beyond the food stalls on neon-drenched Pub Street, where backpackers sink cheap pints of Angkor beer. Yes, downtown Siem Reap now has Domino’s, KFC and Starbucks, but there’s also a growing number of fantastic restaurants specialising in Cambodian cuisine. One example is Pou, founded by Mork Mengly, a Cambodian chef who champions local cuisine. His fragrant Battambang pomelo salad is very popular with customers.

Changes are afoot further afield, too. A rapidly expanding network of bicycle lanes is the reason many visitors now choose to explore Angkor Wat on guided cycling tours. In late 2023, a multi-year renovation of Angkor Wat’s causeway – the 200-metre-long stone pathway leading to the main temple – was completed. This means visitors can once again approach the temple via the original causeway, which was made from laterite and sandstone using 900-year-old construction techniques.

A forgotten city 

Recently, several operators – including InsideAsia – have added another site to their itineraries: Koh Ker. In 2023, this temple complex, 80 miles north-east of Siem Reap, received Unesco World Heritage status. Much less is known about Koh Ker, built by King Jayavarman IV as an alternative kingdom to Angkor Wat. Its highlight is a seven-tier pyramid towering over more than 100 temples, some of which are in ruins. Koh Ker suffered heavier looting than Angkor Wat during the turmoil of the country’s genocide and civil war, which began in the 1970s, and many items passed through the hands of the late Douglas Latchford, a British conman who paid huge sums to locals who brought him stolen artefacts.

The appeal for his clients was Koh Ker’s dramatically different architecture style. Several of Koh Ker’s Brahmanic temples bear more detailed inscriptions, while many statues depict characters rarely represented elsewhere. Later I cross paths with American lawyer Brad Gordon, who’s dedicated his life to the recovery of Cambodia’s looted goods and was awarded Cambodian citizenship in recognition of his work. He cites the Prasat Krachap temple as a great example of what sets Koh Ker apart. “It has the most inscriptions of any Cambodian temple – thousands of names – serving as a testament to the genius builders of Koh Ker,” he says.

In many ways, Siem Reap is still a backpacker town at heart. Tourists flock to Pub Street’s Red Piano Bar to sip Tomb Raider cocktails (Angelina Jolie frequented the bar during the making of the film), dollars are the preferred currency and armies of tuk-tuks buzz around the town. But it is becoming more accessible, which is helping slowly shift the dynamic of visitors, and several hoteliers are placing bets on when there might be direct flights from the UK to Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, or even Siem Reap.

Charlotte Bower, senior south-east Asia product executive at InsideAsia, says: “Siem Reap has undergone a lot of changes over the last few years, and the Wat Bo area has even been declared one of Asia’s “coolest neighbourhoods” by  Time Out , due to its great cafes and delicious street food. Siem Reap, and indeed Cambodia, with its historical sites, rural landscapes, tropical islands and Khmer culture, offers so much and deserves its own dedicated spotlight.”

Book it: InsideAsia’s 11-night Into the Heart of Cambodia cultural adventure costs from £2,182pp excluding external flights;  insideasiatours.com

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