Aman gets asked "which one is cheapest" so often that we keep a ranking for it. Six Senses deserves the same answer, and it is a more surprising one: the spread runs from $388 a night in the mountains outside Chengdu to $2,399 on a private island in the Seychelles, and six Six Senses cost less per night than the cheapest Aman. We track every Six Senses rate every night, so here is the estate, ranked by what a typical night actually costs as of 28 August 2026, with the range across the year and the month that lands lowest at each. Twenty-three of the 26 properties we track have a priced curve deep enough to rank. Three do not, and we say which and why at the end.
How the ranking works
Each Six Senses page on Fermata shows one room by default, the entry category at most properties, with its forward price curve across the next twelve months. The typical night below is the average of that curve, the same figure the hotel page states in its own summary and the same one on the Six Senses brand page. The range is the lowest and highest nightly rate on the curve. The cheapest month is the month whose typical rate sits lowest, computed so that a single outlier date cannot crown a month.
Three things to hold in mind while reading. First, every figure is the per-night rate inside a seven-night stay for two adults, taxes and fees included, in US dollars. Second, the room matters more than the brand: the ranking compares the room each page shows, so a property whose entry room is a pool villa will sit higher than one whose entry room is a bedroom. Where two neighbours in the table are close, the room explains most of it. Third, thirteen of the twenty-three have every calendar month priced; the table says how many months each room has priced so far, and where that is eight to eleven, the cheapest month is the cheapest of those. Every hotel name links to the page with the full curve and every other room.
The ranking
| # | Six Senses | Country | Typical night | Range | Cheapest month | Priciest month | Months priced |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qing Cheng Mountain | China | $388 | $340 to $528 | November, $340 | August, $440 | 12 |
| 2 | Samui | Thailand | $800 | $628 to $1,379 | November, $630 | December, $1,120 | 12 |
| 3 | Krabey Island | Cambodia | $844 | $605 to $2,042 | May, $605 | December, $1,520 | 12 |
| 4 | Con Dao | Vietnam | $869 | $745 to $1,763 | May, $745 | December, $1,092 | 12 |
| 5 | Fort Barwara | India | $893 | $532 to $1,403 | August, $532 | December, $1,361 | 11 |
| 6 | Uluwatu | Indonesia | $910 | $798 to $1,291 | January, $798 | July, $1,291 | 8 |
| 7 | Ninh Van Bay | Vietnam | $1,029 | $715 to $1,683 | October, $715 | February, $1,259 | 12 |
| 8 | London | United Kingdom | $1,037 | $837 to $1,231 | August, $869 | June, $1,231 | 12 |
| 9 | Southern Dunes | Saudi Arabia | $1,048 | $580 to $1,362 | August, $580 | January, $1,211 | 12 |
| 10 | Yao Noi | Thailand | $1,065 | $707 to $2,916 | August, $715 | December, $2,009 | 10 |
| 11 | Kyoto | Japan | $1,226 | $758 to $3,169 | January, $786 | March, $2,098 | 12 |
| 12 | Kanuhura | Maldives | $1,245 | $881 to $2,617 | August, $881 | January, $1,371 | 10 |
| 13 | La Sagesse | Grenada | $1,265 | $859 to $2,021 | August, $977 | December, $1,817 | 10 |
| 14 | Shaharut | Israel | $1,274 | $1,085 to $1,655 | November, $1,125 | April, $1,648 | 12 |
| 15 | Crans-Montana | Switzerland | $1,288 | $844 to $2,510 | October, $846 | July, $2,358 | 11 |
| 16 | Douro Valley | Portugal | $1,351 | $923 to $1,863 | November, $925 | May, $1,863 | 10 |
| 17 | Laamu | Maldives | $1,384 | $915 to $2,980 | August, $915 | December, $2,223 | 11 |
| 18 | Vana | India | $1,394 | $1,125 to $1,498 | August, $1,239 | January, $1,498 | 12 |
| 19 | Zighy Bay | Oman | $1,556 | $814 to $3,438 | August, $841 | December, $2,731 | 12 |
| 20 | The Palm, Dubai | United Arab Emirates | $1,829 | $673 to $2,941 | June, $673 | March, $2,674 | 9 |
| 21 | Rome | Italy | $1,840 | $1,174 to $2,340 | August, $1,191 | May, $2,340 | 12 |
| 22 | Fiji | Fiji | $1,918 | $1,366 to $2,902 | November, $1,554 | April, $2,341 | 9 |
| 23 | Zil Pasyon | Seychelles | $2,399 | $1,486 to $3,869 | November, $1,564 | June, $3,018 | 12 |
Every Six Senses, ranked by typical nightly rate
The 23 properties with a sufficient priced curve: the room each hotel page shows, averaged over its forward curve, as of 28 August 2026
fermata.travel · typical nightly rate, room shown on each hotel page · two adults, seven-night stays, USD, taxes and fees included
A middle-heavy estate with one outlier
The shape of this table is the story. Six properties typically cost under $1,000 a night, sixteen sit between $1,000 and $2,000, and exactly one clears $2,000. Where Aman has a long expensive tail, Six Senses bunches in the middle and then stops.
The cheap end is genuinely cheap. Qing Cheng Mountain at $388 for its Six Senses King Suite in the hills above the Dujiangyan valley is not just the cheapest, it is $412 clear of the next property, one of the two largest gaps in the table. Behind it come Samui at $800 for a Hideaway Pool Villa, Krabey Island at $844, Con Dao at $869 for an ocean-view duplex pool villa, Fort Barwara at $893 for a suite inside a restored fourteenth-century Rajasthani fort, and Uluwatu at $910. A private pool villa on a Cambodian island or the Vietnamese coast for under $900 a night, all in, is the brand's quiet bargain shelf.
The middle band holds sixteen properties and all three city hotels: London at $1,037, Kyoto at $1,226 and Rome at $1,840, alongside the beach and wellness resorts of Vietnam, Thailand, the Maldives, Grenada, India, Israel, Switzerland, Portugal and Oman. The median across all twenty-three is $1,245, and it lands on Kanuhura in the Maldives. Above $2,000 there is one door only: Zil Pasyon at $2,399, a private-island resort in the Seychelles where the entry room is a Panorama Pool Villa. The step up to it, $481 from Fiji, is the largest single jump in the ranking.
When each Six Senses is cheapest
August is the answer at ten of the twenty-three, more than any other month, and for three different reasons. It is peak heat in the Gulf, which puts Zighy Bay at $841 and Southern Dunes at $580; it is monsoon tail in the Indian Ocean and Andaman, which puts Laamu at $915, Kanuhura at $881 and Yao Noi at $715; and it is the month European cities empty, which puts Rome at $1,191 against a May peak of $2,340 and London at its cheapest month of the year, $869.
November takes six, led by Qing Cheng Mountain at $340 and Samui at $630, both in the heart of their wet seasons, and joined by Shaharut, Douro Valley, Fiji and Zil Pasyon. May takes the two Southeast Asian island resorts, Krabey Island at $605 and Con Dao at $745. October takes Ninh Van Bay and Crans-Montana, the Alpine property in the dead gap between hiking and skiing. January takes Kyoto and Uluwatu.
How much the month is worth varies enormously. The Palm, Dubai has the widest swing in the estate: $673 in June against $2,674 in March, 75 percent, which is the difference between a mid-range hotel and a top-of-table one at the same address. Zighy Bay moves 69 percent, Yao Noi and Crans-Montana 64 percent, Kyoto 63 percent between January at $786 and cherry-blossom March at $2,098, and Fort Barwara 61 percent. At the other end, Vana moves 17 percent across the year and Qing Cheng Mountain 23 percent: at those two the month barely matters, so book when your plans are firm.
How Six Senses prices against Aman
The two brands get compared constantly, so put the two rankings side by side, both read on the same day. The cheapest Aman, Amanfayun, runs $933 a night; six Six Senses price under that. The median Six Senses costs $1,245 against the median Aman's $2,018, a little under 40 percent less, and only four Amans in the whole estate sit below the Six Senses median. At the top the gap is wider still: Zil Pasyon's $2,399 is the priciest Six Senses, and eleven Amans cost more than it, up to Amanvari at $5,690.
That is the real difference between the two. Both brands keep their cheapest doors in Asia, both collapse in the monsoon months, and both hold their city hotels near the middle or top of their own tables. But Aman's estate keeps climbing after Six Senses has run out of table. If Aman's entry level is your ceiling, most of the Six Senses estate is comfortably inside it. The full Aman table is in Every Aman Ranked by Nightly Rate, and both brands' live rankings stay current on their brand pages: Six Senses and Aman. One basis note for the careful reader: our Aman figures are per-night rates inside three-night stays, the Six Senses figures inside seven-night stays, both with taxes and fees included.
Three Six Senses we do not rank today
Three Six Senses are not in the table because they open for part of the year: Ibiza and Kaplankaya for the summer, and the Residences and Spa at Courchevel for the winter.
If you are looking at one of them, its page shows exactly which dates are priced and what they cost.
How to use this
Start with the band that fits the trip, then the month. If your dates can move, moving them is worth the most at The Palm Dubai, Zighy Bay, Yao Noi, Crans-Montana and Kyoto, where the right month costs a third or less of the wrong one, and worth almost nothing at Vana or Qing Cheng Mountain. Then open the property's page, pick the exact room you want rather than the default one, read its curve to place today's quote, and set a target: we re-check the rate every night and email you when it reaches your number. On the island resorts, availability decides more than price does, so if a refundable rate is offered, book it when plans firm up and keep tracking the room until the cancellation deadline. The mechanics are in how to track luxury hotel rates.
Frequently asked questions
Which Six Senses is the cheapest? Six Senses Qing Cheng Mountain, outside Chengdu in China, at a typical $388 a night as of 28 August 2026, taxes and fees included. The next four, Samui ($800), Krabey Island ($844), Con Dao ($869) and Fort Barwara ($893), are all well under $1,000.
Which Six Senses is the most expensive? Zil Pasyon in the Seychelles, at a typical $2,399 a night for its entry Panorama Pool Villa. It is the only ranked property above $2,000; the next two are Fiji at $1,918 and Rome at $1,840.
How much does a Six Senses cost per night? The median across the twenty-three ranked properties is $1,245. Six cost under $1,000, sixteen sit between $1,000 and $2,000, and one clears $2,000. Every figure is a per-night rate inside a seven-night stay for two adults.
Do these figures include taxes? Yes. Every Six Senses rate on Fermata is the all-in figure, taxes and fees included, so the number here is the basis you would see at checkout, and it matches the hotel page.
Is Six Senses cheaper than Aman? On today's read, clearly. The median Six Senses runs $1,245 a night against the median Aman's $2,018, the cheapest Six Senses is $388 against Aman's $933, and the priciest is $2,399 against $5,690. Aman figures are per-night inside three-night stays; the full comparison basis is in the Aman ranking.
Which month is cheapest at a Six Senses? It depends on the property, but August is the single most common answer, cheapest at ten of the twenty-three, covering the Gulf in peak heat, the Indian Ocean in monsoon tail and the European cities when they empty. November is next with six.
