HANGZHOU · FROM ¥6,500 / NIGHT TWIN
Amanfayun
A restored stone village turned Aman — 46 dwellings under tea fields beside Lingyin Temple, the most atmospheric bed within an hour of any course in Hangzhou.
HANGZHOU · FROM ¥6,500 / NIGHT TWIN
A restored stone village turned Aman — 46 dwellings under tea fields beside Lingyin Temple, the most atmospheric bed within an hour of any course in Hangzhou.
WHY THIS HOTEL
A restored stone village turned Aman — 46 dwellings under tea fields beside Lingyin Temple, the most atmospheric bed within an hour of any course in Hangzhou.
The site was a Tang-dynasty village; Kerry Hill restored the century-old stone-and-timber houses with underfloor heating and deep tubs hidden behind the original beams, and left the village intact. Fayun Pathway runs six hundred metres through the middle, past the tea house, the steam house and the temple-kitchen vegetarian restaurant, under an ancient pilgrimage circuit of seven Buddhist monasteries.
Golf here is a driver away, not at the gate: West Lake International forty-five minutes east, the tea-terrace course at Fuchun eighty minutes south. That is the deal — no hotel in Hangzhou buys this atmosphere with golf at the door, and no golf resort buys monks chanting at dawn. We plan Amanfayun as the cultural spine of a Jiangnan week and sequence the courses around it.
Non-golfers rank it their favourite hotel of any China trip we operate: the Aman Spa runs traditional Chinese medicine with real practitioners, tea ceremonies and tai chi happen in the bamboo groves, and West Lake’s gardens and silk markets are twenty minutes down the valley.
THE GOLF AT THE DOOR
There is no golf at the gate — the trade is that every drive out passes through some of the loveliest farmland in eastern China. Your planner sequences the rounds so the driving is scenery, not commute.
The city’s championship parkland and the natural morning round from the valley: established trees, honest greens, and a driver back in time for the tea house at four. Tee times booked with the room as one package.
The tea-garden course at Fuchun Resort — the pairing of the region’s two great stays in one day: the round among Longjing plantations, the spa dome after, the drive back to the village by lantern light.
BEYOND THE GOLF
This is the part your non-golfers care about — and the reason the trip works as a week, not a series of tee times.
The village lane: the Restaurant, the Steam House and its dumplings, Hangzhou House and its beggar’s chicken, the Tea House pouring formal ceremonies, and the Lingyin Vegetarian House at the far end cooking temple recipes.
Five courtyard buildings of traditional Chinese medicine — acupuncture, herbal consultations, tuina — plus the 20-metre heated outdoor pool under the trees.
One of China’s great monasteries is a ten-minute walk; dawn visits before the coach crowds, with the resident monks’ meditation sessions a genuine Aman-only arrangement.
Six kilometres from the UNESCO shoreline — the boat mornings, Longjing village walks and silk-market afternoons are twenty minutes by car, timed around the tee sheet.
ASKED BEFORE YOU ASK
Everything else — room categories, caddie arrangements, that back nine your handicap fears — is one message away.
2 courses are profiled above, and a four-night stay comfortably covers three rounds without a single long transfer. Your planner sequences them so the toughest round lands on your freshest morning.
Yes — that is half the reason we book it. Fayun Pathway is the headline, and the full day programme is planned with the same care as the tee sheet.
From about ¥6,500 per night in season; planned into Jiangnan journeys as the splurge night. Everything is quoted as one fixed all-in price — room, rounds, caddies, drivers and transfers — so nothing arrives as a surprise on checkout day.
STAY + GOLF, ONE PRICE
Tell us the dates and the group. Day-by-day plan back within one business day, no deposit, no obligation.
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