Ryan Walker Aman Incident

[FF98]

Don't think there has been any post/discussion about the Ryan Walker/Aman incident?

The Ryan Walker & Amanvari Situation: Aman's Silence Is Deafening

Aman has refused to acknowledge what happened at Amanvari, whereby the cops were called on hotel reviewer Ryan Walker. What's going on here?!

onemileatatime.com

My travel budget is not at the level of Aman but this is wild and this Aman charges $6k USD/night.

I haven't heard of Ryan before this - but the consensus seem to be he is a genuine independent travel reviewer/advisor.

There has been some furor on Reddit on r/FATTravel given how the mod Sarah defended Aman instantly, and has since backed down.

Keen to see Aman's explanation as it doesn't look good for them. Comments on their insta page has been turned off.

 

[RooFlyer]

Yes, saw that; also hadn't heard of him. Key thing for me is that the hotel said it had just opened and wasn't quite ready - but still charging US$6,000/night.

 

[elanshin]

Ryan Walker is a YouTuber that does a lot of luxury hotel (and experiences). Its a segment that has got a lot more attention as people generally can't afford to do all the luxury stuff so they live vicariously through the YouTuber as well as getting to see some of the luxury experiences so they can decide if they want to drop money on a bucket list item.

The circumstances here seems quite suspicious regardless of who was staying and responses seem to be a bit dodgy too. Basically not inline with what a luxury 7* should be at even if they didn't want him reviewing the hotel.

 

[FF98]

He was scheduled to do a live Q&A about his experience but said he was advised by the US Consulate to not proceed at this point in time. Seems like he is still in Mexico. Story gets wilder and wilder

 

[kpc]

Another influencer?

 

[SeatBackForward]

Another influencer?

Influenza

 

[RooFlyer]

Another influencer?

In as much as anyone on YouTube could be called that. Checking him out, I think he deserves a bit better label than that.

 

[kpc]

In as much as anyone on YouTube could be called that. Checking him out, I think he deserves a bit better label than that.

I stand by my original label.