Few hotels are as synonymous with old world grandeur and colonial architecture as Raffles Hotel Singapore – a hotel of choice for the city-state’s elite since its opening in 1887.
The hotel’s corridors, which have been visited by guests from Rudyard Kipling to Catherine, Princess of Wales, like the rest of the hotel, have undergone a two-year restoration said to have cost more than £200 million USD, hallway was renovated in 2019.
The hotel occupies an area of three hectares, close to the city’s central business district and is a tourist attraction in itself. Visitors stop to take photos of its gorgeous exterior or sample the Singapore Sling in the hotel’s Long Bar, the birthplace of the Singapore Sling.
But general manager Christian Westbeld said half of the hotel’s space is for guests only.
“The most luxurious thing about staying at our hotel is that when you enter our hotel, you feel time passing in a different way,” he told CNBC. “Within our walls, everything slows down.”
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