Raffles Hotel Singapore opened in 1887 in a rather somber-looking old bungalow known as Beach House.

Declared a National Monument in 1987, the Hotel has grown from strength to strength. With its restoration and reopening in 1991, Raffles Hotel today stands as a jewel in the crown of Singapore’s hospitality industry, renowned and loved for it’s inimitable style and unsurpassed excellence in service and facilities.

Somerset Maugham once called the Raffles Hotel the legendary symbol for “all the fables of the Exotic East”. Other patrons have heaped it with lavish, if less poetic praise. Indeed more than a hundred years after it first opened its doors, Raffles Hotel is more legend than hotel and no visit to Singapore can be considered complete without stopping by at Raffles.

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