Capella Singapore stands on a knoll of Sentosa Island, in Singapore: 38 villas, each with its own plunge pool, and 2 colonial bungalows of the 1880s joined to a curving wing by Foster + Partners.
A week here, month by monthCapella suits a Singapore stay with time by the pools, from S$1,494 for one night for 2 adults at the lowest seller Google showed. For days spent walking straight out into the city, I would choose a central hotel.
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I would ask for a Premier Garden Room if a private pool is not essential: 77 m² and a balcony, with the main building’s shared pools for swimming.
From 6 to 12 November 2026, single nights range from S$1,497 to S$1,556 in the calendar read on 13 October 2026. The highest shown is S$35,970 on 31 December 2026.
Allow for a treatment separately: at Auriga Spa, Senja Sunyi costs S$330 for 90 minutes, with service charge and GST added, on the September 2026 menu.
Have your booking confirmation ready for the free shuttle to VivoCity and Resorts World Sentosa; the hotel advises arriving 5 minutes before departure, and seats go to whoever arrives first.
The resort opened in 2009 as the flagship of the Capella brand, on land that the MICHELIN Guide says was once a British military fortress. At its centre are 2 restored Tanah Merah colonial bungalows of the 1880s, white with red-tiled roofs; behind them a contemporary wing by Foster + Partners curves through the trees, and the hotel’s home page counts 113 rooms, suites, villas and manors in 30 acres of grounds. Guests write of peacocks walking the lawns: one passed a breakfast table in August 2026.
People choose it for the space. The smallest room is 77 m² with a balcony; each of the 38 villas has a terrace with a 3 m × 3 m plunge pool, and a buggy takes its guests to the door. The 3 pools step down the slope below the main building, open from 7am to 7pm. Auriga Spa has 9 treatment rooms, and every stay includes an afternoon tea in The Living Room; the minibar’s soft drinks are free, on the fact sheet.
Sentosa is an island of its own: the hotel’s shuttle leaves every 30 minutes for Resorts World Sentosa and VivoCity, and a taxi pays the island’s gantry. On Google Hotels a night for 2 ran from S$1,631 to S$2,158 between October 2026 and September 2027, service charge and GST inside. Guests who write about the bill call it expensive; half of them add that the service and the grounds are worth it.
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Capella Singapore stands on a knoll of Sentosa Island, in Singapore: 38 villas, each with its own plunge pool, and 2 colonial bungalows of the 1880s joined to a curving wing by Foster + Partners.
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500 reviews read: breakfast pleases 9 guests in 10 who mention it, the room 9 in 10.
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We found 38 villas standing alone in the grounds, each with a terrace and a private plunge pool of 3 metres by 3, 3 more pools in tiers below the main building and Auriga Spa, whose 9 treatment rooms each open on a private garden.
Among the hotel’s regulars, a guest writing in March 2026 describes the family’s routine of breakfast at Fiamma, afternoon tea, an evening swim and sunset dinner at Bob’s Bar. It was their third stay. A guest writing in March 2021 notes upgraded rooms after a wedding there in 2013 and subsequent staycations. For a family writing in September 2026, the reassuring detail is arriving to find the cot and nappy bin already set up.
Read across the 899 reviews with text, written from June 2019 to October 2026; both returning-guest candidate lists were considered.
What we found reading the hotel’s own pages, one thing at a time.
On a knoll of Sentosa in 30 acres of garden: Palawan Beach 10 minutes down a private trail, Raffles Place 12 to 16 minutes by car without traffic.
2 Tanah Merah bungalows of the 1880s joined to a curving wing by Foster + Partners, with peacocks on the lawns.
77 to 576 m²: every room has a balcony, each of the 38 villas a 3 m × 3 m plunge pool, the 3 manors a pool and 3 bedrooms.
Fiamma for Italian cooking and breakfast, Cassia for Cantonese, Bob’s Bar for local dishes and the sunset, The Pineapple Room for cocktails.
3 outdoor pools from 7am to 7pm and Auriga Spa: 9 treatment rooms, vitality pools, steam rooms and a gym open 24 hours.
Google Hotels: S$1,631 to S$2,158 a night for 2 between October 2026 and September 2027, service charge and GST inside.
What do Capella Singapore’s guests say? They write it in their reviews, even those who only came for a drink or dinner: we read every one and tell the 5 things that matter, from the location to the bill.
9 in 10 guests who mention it are happy with it. The resort is quiet and green, an escape from the bustle of the city, and a private trail leads down to Palawan Beach; a few write that Sentosa means a taxi or the hotel’s shuttle.
9 in 10 guests who mention it are happy with it. Guests write of large rooms with a bath apart from the shower, of villas with a small pool of their own and of cots set up before a family arrives; one guest, in May 2025, finds the rooms a little tired.
9 in 10 guests who mention it are happy with it. Guests name the staff who greet them by name, the buggies that carry them through the grounds and the staff who contact them before arrival; the 3 pools, the spa and the peacocks on the lawns recur.
9 in 10 guests who mention it are happy with it. Breakfast at Fiamma is a buffet with dishes cooked to order from a menu; one guest recommends the minute steak sandwich, and 2, in 2025 and 2026, wish the buffet were wider.
5 in 10 guests who mention the price find it fair. Guests call the hotel expensive; those content with the bill write that the service and the grounds are worth it for an occasion, the others name a room near S$2,000 a night and the spa’s prices.
On location it comes ahead of the 3 other hotels it is compared with in Singapore.
On the room it comes ahead of the 3 other hotels it is compared with in Singapore.
On breakfast it shares first place with Sofitel Singapore Sentosa Resort & Spa among the 4 hotels compared in Singapore.
On the bill it shares first place with Sofitel Singapore Sentosa Resort & Spa among the 4 hotels compared in Singapore.
| What | Score out of 10 | Guests who mention it | Happy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Location | 8.1 | 137 | 90% |
| Room | 8.4 | 153 | 91% |
| Staff and service | 8.5 | 373 | 86% |
| Breakfast | 8.4 | 95 | 92% |
| Price | – | 42 | 50% |
The scores come from 500 Google reviews with text, left from 15 March 2023 to 7 October 2026. The other hotels are the ones weighed for a stay in Singapore: for each we read its latest 500 Google reviews with text, or all of them where there are fewer, as of 12 October 2026. The score is the average of what they say, from 0 if they speak of it very badly to 10 if they speak of it very well. Where only a few mention something, the score stays close to the guide’s average: a handful of voices does not make a reputation.
The hotels we weigh it against in Singapore:
Price: for two on the night of 10 January 2027, from 1,494 SGD (seen on Google Hotels on 13 October 2026).
From 1 July to 8 September 2027, the lowest seller’s single-night prices run from S$1,731 to S$2,231. For an early-January stay I would start with 10–14 January 2027, when single nights range from S$1,494 to S$1,529.
| Period | Singapore dollars a night |
|---|---|
| 14 October to 23 October 2026 | 1,440–1,789 |
| 24 October to 30 October 2026 | 1,503–29,349 |
| 31 Oct 2026–30 Jun 2027 | 1,342–2,577 |
| 1 Jul–8 Sep 2027 | 1,731–2,231 |
Lowest seller on Google Hotels for one night searched alone, for 2 adults, read on 13 October 2026; no room or meal plan is named. The calendar ends on 8 September 2027. Shown separately: 31 December 2026, S$35,970. For 13 October 2026, read on 12 October, the lowest seller showed S$1,798 and the hotel’s own listing S$2,158. Booked as 7 nights from 16 November 2026, the lowest seller Google listed on 13 October asked S$1,951 a night; the hotel’s own listing, S$2,126.
Raffles Singapore suits a stay centred on the civic district, with Esplanade MRT 2 minutes away on foot. Marina Bay Sands puts the ArtScience Museum a 3-minute walk away, with a pool reserved for hotel guests.
| Hotel | A night, from |
|---|---|
| Capella Singapore | 1,529 SGD |
| Raffles Singapore | 1,645 SGD |
| Marina Bay Sands | 1,049 SGD |
Lowest single-night price in the week of 16–22 November 2026, for 2 adults, in Singapore dollars; read on Google on 13 October 2026.
The pools are set in tiers below the main building and open daily from 7am to 7pm, says the guest directory of August 2026. The hotel prints no rule on who swims where. The Times, Condé Nast Traveller and Expedia’s summary agree on one pool for adults, one for families and a lap pool; The Times alone places them, with the adults’ infinity-edge pool at the top, the family pool in the middle and an adults-only lap pool below.
Each of the 38 villas stands alone in the grounds, with a terrace, sunbeds, an outdoor rain shower and a private plunge pool of 3 m × 3 m. Time Out calls the pool small beside those of Raffles Sentosa; a guest in August 2026 writes that it is the place to cool off in Singapore’s heat. A buggy takes villa guests to their door.
Fiamma is the Italian restaurant and the breakfast room: breakfast from 7am to 11am, lunch from 12pm to 3pm, dinner from 6pm to 10:30pm with last orders at 10pm. On Sundays its Champagne brunch starts from S$158++ a person; on Tuesdays the Pizza Club costs S$48++, S$24++ for a child of 12 or under.
Cassia seats 82 for Cantonese cooking on level 4: lunch from 12pm to 2:30pm, dinner from 6pm to 10pm, with last orders half an hour before each closing. Its New Year set menu for 31 December 2026 and 1 January 2027 is S$288++ a person.
A lounge on level 4, reached through the lobby and open from 9am to 9pm, where staying guests are served refreshments and an afternoon tea at no charge, says the guest benefits page. A guest in December 2025 found stollen and cinnamon stars on the tea’s spread and board games to play.
Auriga Spa, on level one, has 9 treatment rooms with private gardens, 4 of them for couples, and separate areas for men and women, each with a vitality pool, a herbal steam room, an ice fountain and experience showers. It opens from 8am to 10pm, with treatments from 9am to 8pm; a 90-minute massage is S$330++ on the menu of September 2026.
The hotel has no beach of its own. It stands on a knoll, and a private trail leads down to Palawan Beach, a public beach 726 metres and 10 minutes away on OpenStreetMap’s paths; Condé Nast Traveller warns that the walk back up is steep. Booking.com and the MICHELIN Guide list the hotel as «Beachfront».
Rates and menus are quoted «++»: a 10% service charge, then 9% GST on both, 19.9% in all. On 12 October 2026 the hotel’s own link on Google Hotels showed S$2,158.20 for a night, S$358.20 of it charge and tax on a room of S$1,800.
The hotel publishes the pools’ hours, 7am to 7pm, and no rule on which pool children may use. The split into a pool for adults, a pool for families and a lap pool comes from 3 reviews that agree: The Times, Condé Nast Traveller and Expedia’s summary. The Times puts the adults’ infinity-edge pool at the top and an adults-only lap pool at the bottom.
A car or taxi entering Sentosa pays the island’s admission at the gantry: S$6 from 7am to 11:29am and from 1:31pm to 5pm, S$2 at other hours, says Sentosa. The hotel lists free admission to Sentosa for guests in residence, and Sentosa says hotel guests may be issued a QR code; neither page says how that reaches an arriving taxi’s fare.
There is no airport shuttle. The hotel’s free shuttle runs only to Resorts World Sentosa and VivoCity; Booking.com lists «Airport shuttle» among the amenities. The hotel arranges airport transfers at a price it does not publish.
A villa’s private pool is a plunge pool of 3 m × 3 m, on the room page. Time Out calls it small beside those of Raffles Sentosa, and a guest in March 2026 describes «a dipping pool». The 57 Premier rooms and the 11 suites have no pool of their own; the 4 Constellation Rooms have a Jacuzzi.
One pet of up to about 15 kg stays in each room or villa, on a leash outside it and never left alone inside, says the pets page. Pets may sit at the outdoor tables of Fiamma, Cassia and Bob’s Bar. They are kept out of the indoor dining rooms, The Living Room, the spa, the pools and the villas’ plunge pools.
Some rates leave breakfast out. The Telegraph’s review priced it at S$58, and Google Hotels lists it as an extra charge. The Sentosa Staycation includes it for 2.
| Changi Airport | 26 km by the hotel’s figure; 26.6 km from Terminal 1 and 26.8 km from Terminal 3 on OpenStreetMap’s roads, 28 to 31 minutes by car without traffic |
|---|---|
| Airport transfer | Arranged by the hotel at a price it does not publish; a manor stay includes a return private transfer. The hotel runs no airport shuttle |
| Sentosa’s gantry | A car or taxi pays S$6 from 7am to 11:29am and from 1:31pm to 5pm, S$2 at other hours; the hotel lists free admission to Sentosa for guests in residence |
| Hotel shuttle | Free, every 30 minutes from 10:00 to 21:30, to Resorts World Sentosa and VivoCity; back from VivoCity’s Lobby G from 10:15 to 21:45, with a key card or booking confirmation |
| Sentosa Express | The monorail from VivoCity runs from 7am to midnight and costs S$4 to enter the island; Imbiah station is 12 minutes on foot from the hotel, 898 metres |
| The city by car | Raffles Place 7.2 km and 12 to 16 minutes, Orchard Road 8.5 km and 15 to 22, Marina Bay Sands 8.7 km and 15 to 20, without traffic |
Times and fares come from the hotel’s guest directory of August 2026, its guest benefits page and Sentosa’s own pages, read on 12 October 2026. The walks and drives are calculated on OpenStreetMap’s streets, without traffic.
Capella Singapore · 1 The Knolls, Sentosa Island, Singapore
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The outdoor pools open: a swim before the rest of the day takes shape.
Fiamma opens for lunch, with Italian cooking on level 1.
Take afternoon tea in The Living Room, included in the stay.
Head to level 4 for Cantonese cooking as Cassia opens for dinner.
The Pineapple Room serves cocktails and bar bites above the lobby.
On 12 October 2026 Google showed 4.7/5 from 2,817 ratings. The figures by topic come from the latest 500 reviews with text, March 2023 to October 2026. They are accounts of stays we have not verified, and a few of them describe a wedding or a dinner at the hotel.
Google2,817 reviews4.7/5
Tripadvisor3,283 reviews4.7/5
Booking.com111 reviews9.6/10
Expedia596 reviews9.4/106 stays described on Google between March and September 2026.
GoogleIn September 2026 guests on their third trip praise a low-rise resort, its 3 pools, staff who remember names and buggies on call. They count 12 minutes by taxi to the city and call the breakfast buffet a highlight of each day.
GoogleIn September 2026 a family who had stayed several times that year write that the cot and the nappy bin are in the room before they arrive. They return for breakfast, The Living Room and the children’s menus at Fiamma and Bob’s Bar.
GoogleIn August 2026 a guest staying one night ate at Fiamma and at Cassia, had access to the beach with the room card and saw a peacock stroll past the breakfast table. From the balcony the sea showed through the forest; the bath stands apart from the rain shower.
GoogleIn August 2026 a guest writing in German was checked in on a sofa with a drink and a refreshing towel, then driven to a villa whose small pool was the place to cool off in the heat. Champagne and a cake were waiting after a round of golf on a birthday.
GoogleIn March 2026 a guest who paid nearly S$2,000 a night found the villa spacious and without a view, its pool «a dipping pool» with leaves in the water, and the spa without a sauna. The same guest liked the direct way to Palawan Beach and both restaurants.
GoogleIn April 2026 a guest writes that the room’s air conditioning went back to 23 °C whenever an hour passed without movement, and that 20 °C was the lowest setting. After 2 nights the hotel removed the reset and brought a fan.
A 5-star resort of 113 rooms, suites, villas and manors in 30 acres of Sentosa Island, at 1 The Knolls, opened in 2009 as the flagship of the Capella brand. At its centre are 2 restored Tanah Merah colonial bungalows of the 1880s, joined to a contemporary wing by Foster + Partners, says the hotel’s home page; the MICHELIN Guide adds that the land was once a British military fortress and that the hotel hosted the 2018 summit between the United States and North Korea.
It appears in the portfolio of Pontiac Land Group, is run by Capella Hotel Group and belongs to The Leading Hotels of the World. Its own pages list a Forbes Travel Guide Five Star rating for the hotel and the spa every year from 2013 to 2026, one MICHELIN Key in 2025 and 2026, and number 97 on the extended list of The World’s 50 Best Hotels for 2026. One review counts 112 rooms: the fact sheet of October 2026 adds up to 113. The MICHELIN Guide’s page speaks of a golf course: the hotel has none, and Sentosa Golf Club is a separate club 22 to 26 minutes away on foot.
The fact sheet of October 2026 counts 113 keys in 9 categories: 40 Premier Garden Rooms and 17 Premier Seaview Rooms of 77 m², 4 Constellation Rooms of 109 m², 7 Sentosa Suites of 86 m², 4 Capella Suites of 100 m², 35 One-Bedroom Villas of 166 m², 3 Two-Bedroom Villas of 233 m², 2 Colonial Manors of 500 m² and the Capella Manor of 576 m². Rooms and suites are in the main building, each with a balcony, a bath beside a separate rain shower and 2 basins, for 2 adults and one child; the villas stand in the grounds.
According to their own pages on the official site, read on 15 October 2026, a One-Bedroom Villa takes 2 adults and one child, or 3 adults, and a Premier Seaview Room has a king-size bed. The Times writes of villas with one to 3 bedrooms: the villas have one or 2, and the houses with 3 bedrooms are the manors. The bathrooms carry Bamford toiletries, according to the room pages on the official site, read on 15 October 2026.
The 38 villas and the 3 manors. Each villa, the 35 with one bedroom and the 3 with 2, has a private plunge pool of 3 m × 3 m on its terrace, says the Two-Bedroom Villa page. The Capella Manor has a private lap pool of 71 m² on its own page, where the accommodation page’s card says «plunge pool»; each of the 2 Colonial Manors has a private outdoor pool.
The 4 Constellation Rooms have a private Jacuzzi on the balcony and no pool. The 57 Premier rooms and the 11 suites share the hotel’s 3 pools. Time Out calls the villas’ plunge pool small beside those of Raffles Sentosa Singapore; a guest in July 2026 writes of the private pool and complete privacy of a One-Bedroom Garden Villa, one in March 2026 of «a dipping pool».
There are 3 outdoor pools, set in tiers down the slope below the main building and open daily from 7am to 7pm, says the guest directory of August 2026. No indoor pool is listed; heating, a lifeguard and a children’s pool are not published, so ask if one matters.
The hotel publishes no rule on who uses which pool. 3 reviews agree on one pool for adults, one for families and a lap pool: The Times, Condé Nast Traveller and Expedia’s summary. The Times alone says where: an infinity-edge pool for adults at the top, a family pool in the middle and a slender adults-only lap pool below. Pets are kept out of the pools and off the pool decks.
The guest directory of August 2026 gives 2 restaurants and 2 bars. Fiamma, Italian, on level one: lunch from 12pm to 3pm, aperitivo from 2:30pm to 6pm, dinner from 6pm to 10:30pm with last orders at 10pm; the day-pass page adds breakfast from 7am to 11am. Cassia, Cantonese, 82 seats on level 4: lunch from 12pm to 2:30pm, dinner from 6pm to 10pm, last orders half an hour before each closing. Bob’s Bar, on level 2, serves local dishes and cocktails from 3pm to 11pm on Monday and Tuesday and from 12pm to 11pm from Wednesday to Sunday. The Pineapple Room, on level 4, serves cocktails from 5pm to 11pm daily. In-room dining runs for 24 hours, on the fact sheet.
Fiamma’s Sunday Champagne brunch starts from S$158++ a person on its page, and the hotel’s gift shop sells it with Champagne for S$285.36 a person, which is S$238++ by our arithmetic; its Tuesday Pizza Club is S$48++, S$24++ for a child of 12 or under. Expedia counts «two on-site restaurants» and leaves out the 2 bars. The hotel’s home page still carries an undated notice that Fiamma’s space is «temporarily closed» for works: the directory of August 2026 prints its hours, and guests name the restaurant in reviews of September and October 2026.
There are 2. Staying guests take afternoon tea and refreshments at no charge in The Living Room, which is open from 9am to 9pm: they are among the benefits of every stay.
A press release of 22 May 2026 announced a paid Afternoon Tea, the hotel’s first, from 26 June 2026: every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 3pm to 5pm at Tanah Merah I, one of the 2 colonial bungalows, at S$88++ a person and S$44++ for a child of 12 or under. The release names a pineapple sorbet, a Brittany blue lobster roll and scones with clotted cream and house-made pineapple jam, for the pineapple plantations Sentosa once had.
Breakfast is served at Fiamma from 7am to 11am. Guests describe a buffet with dishes cooked to order from a menu: one in September 2026 recommends the minute steak sandwich; one in August 2025 found the eggs and congee well prepared, the laksa and dim sum passable and the service slow.
It is part of some rates and outside others. Google Hotels lists breakfast as an extra charge and The Telegraph’s review priced it at S$58; the Sentosa Staycation includes it for 2, and the gift shop sells one night in a Premier Garden Room with breakfast for 2 at S$1,498.75.
Auriga Spa is on level one: over 1,114 m² on the fact sheet, 9 treatment rooms with private outdoor gardens, 4 of them couples’ suites, and separate areas for men and women, each with a vitality pool, a herbal steam room, an ice fountain and experience showers. It is open daily from 8am to 10pm, with treatments from 9am to 8pm, for guests of 18 and over; for anyone under 17 the menu requires an adult in the same treatment room. A guest in March 2026 notes that it has no sauna.
From the menu of September 2026, before the 10% service charge and GST: body massages at S$330 for 90 minutes and S$430 for 120, manual lymphatic drainage at S$230 for 60 minutes, facials from S$450 for 90 minutes to S$680 for 120, a bath ritual of 30 minutes at S$100. Skincare is by Dr. Levy, Margy’s Monte Carlo, Biologique Recherche and Ground Wellbeing. An à la carte booking is cancelled free with 12 hours’ notice.
A treatment is paid for. The spa menu invites guests to arrive 60 minutes before one to use the steam rooms, experience showers, vitality pools and ice fountain; whether a staying guest may use them without a treatment is not published, and one review says hotel guests use some of them free.
The hotel sells a day pass, the Wellness Discovery Day Pass, valid from 8am to 8pm from Sunday to Thursday: S$460++ a person with a 90-minute massage and breakfast at Fiamma, S$560++ with Fiamma’s Sunday brunch, with the 3 pools from 8am to 7pm, the spa’s water rooms and the gym. The gym has Technogym equipment and is open 24 hours with a key card.
It has no beach of its own. The hotel stands on a knoll, and a private trail leads down to Palawan Beach, one of Sentosa’s public beaches: 726 metres and 10 minutes on OpenStreetMap’s paths, 2,800 feet on Booking.com. Condé Nast Traveller warns that the walk back up is rather steep. Tanjong Beach is 22 minutes on foot, 1.6 km, and Siloso Beach 25 minutes, 1.9 km.
Booking.com and the MICHELIN Guide both tag the hotel «Beachfront», which the map does not bear out. Dogs are allowed on Palawan Beach, says the hotel’s pets page.
At 1 The Knolls, Sentosa Island, Singapore 098297: a knoll in 30 acres of grounds, 2.6 km by road from HarbourFront and VivoCity on the mainland. A guest on Booking.com calls it a quiet corner of Sentosa, and guests on Google write of an escape from the bustle of the city; in February 2025 one found the grounds large, with stairs and few signs.
The hotel’s contact page says «just over 10 minutes» from central Singapore, its weddings and events page «30 minutes»: the drive to Raffles Place measures 7.2 km and 12 to 16 minutes without traffic. Expedia describes a hotel «near Marina Bay Sands Skypark», which is 8.7 km away by road. Google Hotels puts Universal Studios 2 km away: its entrance is 1.25 km on foot and 2.8 km by road.
Sentosa is joined to the mainland by a road, a monorail and a boardwalk. The hotel’s free shuttle leaves the lobby every 30 minutes from 10:00 to 21:30 for Resorts World Sentosa, where Universal Studios is, and for VivoCity and HarbourFront station; it returns from VivoCity’s Lobby G from 10:15 to 21:45. It is for guests with a key card or a booking confirmation, and seats go to whoever comes first.
A car or taxi pays Sentosa’s admission at the gantry: S$6 from 7am to 11:29am and from 1:31pm to 5pm, S$2 at other hours, added to a taxi’s fare, says Sentosa. The hotel lists free admission to Sentosa for guests in residence; how it applies to an arriving taxi is on neither page. The Sentosa Express from VivoCity runs from 7am to midnight and costs S$4 to enter; within the island it is free, as are the Sentosa buses A and B, which stop at Amara Sanctuary Resort. On foot from the hotel, Imbiah station is 12 minutes away and the entrance of Universal Studios 17 to 19.
26 km by the hotel’s own figure; on OpenStreetMap’s roads 26.6 km from Terminal 1 and 26.8 km from Terminal 3, 28 to 31 minutes without traffic. Google Hotels says 25 km and Booking.com 24 km; reviews give 25 to 40 minutes.
The hotel arranges airport transfers through its Culturists and publishes no price for them; a manor stay includes a return private transfer. Booking.com lists an «Airport shuttle» among the amenities: the hotel’s shuttle goes only to Resorts World Sentosa and VivoCity. A taxi from the airport also pays Sentosa’s gantry, S$2 or S$6 by the hour of day.
The hotel has its own car park. Booking.com lists free private parking and Expedia free self and valet parking. The hotel’s own pages promise overnight parking inside named packages, the Sentosa Staycation and the gift-shop stay among them, and print no parking price for other rates.
A car also pays Sentosa’s gantry unless the stay covers it. Sentosa’s public car parks charge S$2.20 an hour from 7am to 5pm, capped at S$10 a day.
On Google Hotels, read on 12 October 2026, a night for 2 adults cost from S$1,205 on 15 May 2027, the cheapest night read, to S$2,637 on 2 January 2027, the dearest. The prices are in Singapore dollars with the 10% service charge and 9% GST inside, as the sellers’ links show. In 2026: S$1,384 on 17 October, S$1,676 on 20 October, S$1,529 on 10 November, S$2,446 on 17 November, S$1,506 on 6 December and S$2,361 on 25 December. In 2027: S$1,444 on 7 March, S$1,978 on 5 July and S$1,720 on 2 September.
Each figure is the lowest price of the day: the calendar names no room and does not say whether breakfast is in. For the night of 13 October the card showed S$1,798 from the cheapest seller and S$2,158 on the hotel’s own link, where the room alone was S$1,800. 3 nights showed amounts 20 times the others: S$29,330 on 28 October, S$29,339 on 29 October and S$35,970 on 31 December 2026. That is whatever was left on sale those nights; a room’s price is another matter. No source read ties the dearer nights to an event. The Telegraph’s review of 2025 gave doubles from S$1,020 in low season, without saying whether charge and tax were inside.
The hotel quotes its prices «++», which means 19.9% still to add: a 10% service charge, then 9% GST on the sum. The hotel publishes no city tax or resort fee. A third adult on existing bedding pays S$100++, and children up to 11 stay free. Booking.com lists an extra bed at S$227.81 a person a night.
Every rate includes Wi-Fi, refreshments and afternoon tea in The Living Room, the gym, the shuttle and admission to Sentosa, as well as the pressing of up to 5 pieces of clothing a stay: so says the guest benefits page. The fact sheet adds a minibar free except for alcohol. Food and drink bought outside may not be consumed in the hotel.
The Sentosa Staycation is 15% off the best available rate with breakfast for 2, plus 10% off dining at Cassia, Fiamma and Bob’s Bar and overnight parking. It covers every room, suite and villa except the manors, is prepaid and cannot be refunded. Its own page asks for booking 21 days ahead; the cards on the pets and family pages say 3 days.
Also on the offers page on 12 October 2026: Third Night on Us for the villas, prepaid; A Festive Island Celebration for stays from 1 to 31 December 2026, with check-out until 2pm; and The Manor Experience for up to 6 guests. Elsewhere on the site, Fly and Stay is sold with a Japanese flight partner.
Direct on the hotel’s site or with reservations on +65 6591 5000. The best available rate can be cancelled up to 72 hours before arrival, after which the full charge applies; on dates the offer lists it is prepaid. The Staycation and Third Night packages are prepaid in full and cannot be changed or refunded.
On Booking.com the hotel asks for payment before arrival by bank transfer. The minimum age to check in is 18.
Check-in from 3pm and check-out by 12pm, on the hotel’s room pages, Booking.com and Google alike. A check-out at 2pm is guaranteed inside the December 2026 festive package; a guest in April 2026 was given a room at 11am and kept it until 2pm.
Early check-in, the fee for a late check-out and luggage storage are not published: ask the hotel before you travel.
Yes, in every category: one pet of up to about 15 kg in each room or villa, with a bed, a bowl and treats provided, says the pets page. Pets stay on a leash outside the room and are never left alone in it. They are kept out of the indoor dining rooms, The Living Room, the function rooms, the spa, the pools, the pool decks and the villas’ plunge pools; they may sit at the outdoor tables of Fiamma, Cassia and Bob’s Bar, and ride the shuttle in a carrier.
No pet fee is printed on the hotel’s pages, and Booking.com says pets stay at no extra charge; damage or extra cleaning may be charged to the card. The private trail leads to Palawan Beach, where dogs are allowed. A couple in September 2026 stayed in a villa with their cats.
Children up to 11 stay free with a paying adult, says the family page. A cot is on request, free on Booking.com, and babysitting is on request at a price the hotel does not publish. Rooms and suites take 2 adults and one child, a Two-Bedroom Villa 2 adults and 2 children. Booking.com charges children of 12 and over as adults.
The hotel publishes no kids’ club. The Little Stars programme has Peranakan tile painting on Tuesdays and Fridays from 10:30am to 12pm and a scavenger hunt on Saturdays and Sundays from 10am to 11am, for children of 3 and over, with an adult for anyone under 12. Universal Studios Singapore is 17 to 19 minutes away on foot, or one stop on the hotel shuttle.
The hotel’s Culturists run resort activities at no charge, the Little Stars workshops among them. A Dim Sum Masterclass costs S$168++ a guest. From the spa menu: mat pilates on Sundays at 9am, tennis and padel at The Club Residences next door on 24 hours’ notice, and personal training at S$250++ for 60 minutes.
Read on 12 October 2026: Google 4.7/5 from 2,817 ratings; Tripadvisor 4.7/5 from 3,283; Booking.com 9.6/10 from 111, with staff at 9.7, location at 9.4 and value for money at 8.6; Expedia 9.4/10 from 596.
Among the latest 500 Google reviews with text, 373 guests write about the staff and the hotel’s services: they name staff who remember them, buggies on call and rooms made ready for a toddler or a pet. 153 write about the rooms, 137 about the location and 95 about breakfast. 42 write about the bill, and half of them are happy with what they paid. On the other side, 2 guests in February and March 2026 found the spa dear, and several since 2023 write that Sentosa is a taxi ride from the rest of the city.
Yes. The Grand Ballroom, circular, with a curved LED wall of 81 m², takes up to 400 guests; it measures 780 m² on the fact sheet and 800 m² on the weddings page. Together the 3 Sentosa Rooms take up to 180 and The Gallery up to 100; vows can be exchanged on the lawns, and event space totals over 2,050 m². Guest rooms are for sleeping only, without gatherings or parties.
The weddings page prints no price and gives an e-mail address for packages. A solemnisation leaflet still on the hotel’s site lists 2 outdoor ceremonies for up to 80 guests, Garden of Dreams on the lawns at S$9,888++ and Horizon’s Verge on a patio at S$8,888++, with 2 hours of venue, flowers and chairs: its prices were valid until 31 March 2026. A guest in August 2026 writes of a wedding at «3800 per table».
Yes, with menus published for 2026. Fiamma’s New Year’s Eve dinner on 31 December 2026 is S$298++ a person, with a wine pairing at S$188++; Cassia’s New Year set menu, at lunch and dinner on 31 December 2026 and 1 January 2027, is S$288++ a person; Fiamma’s Christmas Eve dinner on 24 December 2026 is S$288++. A countdown party or a view of the fireworks is not published.
The hotel is open all year: Google’s calendar prices every night from 13 October 2026 to 7 September 2027. No closure or works are announced for 2026 or 2027. The undated notice on the home page about Fiamma’s space dates from before the restaurant opened, and a trade article of 7 July 2022 already reports the new restaurant; Fiamma’s hours are in the guest directory of August 2026 and its New Year’s Eve 2026 menu is published.
Serviced apartments beside the hotel, sold for short and long stays: one to 4 bedrooms, 89 to 355 m², and the Contemporary Manor of 447 m², on their fact sheet of March 2026. They are outside the hotel’s 113 keys. A short stay includes breakfast at Fiamma, parking and the hotel’s pools; the residences add their own pool, tennis, padel and pétanque courts and direct access to Palawan Beach.
The hotel publishes nothing on accessible rooms or step-free routes. The Telegraph’s review reports an accessible Premier Garden King room with support rails in the bathroom. The grounds are on a slope: villa guests are driven to their door by buggy, and the path to the beach is steep on the way back. Each room’s floor plan is on its page.
The General Post Office of 1928 at the river mouth: a 25 m pool below the Doric columns, tea in the atrium and the Merlion 5 minutes away on foot
100 rooms with balconies over the water of Marina Bay, a 25-metre rooftop pool and Lantern bar; you enter through Clifford Pier, the pier of 1933
John Portman’s fan, redone in 2023: a 25-metre pool facing the skyline, 9 places to eat and the lounge on the 21st floor
115 suites with butlers in a colonial hotel open since 1887 on Beach Road, with 8 restaurants and bars, the Long Bar of the Singapore Sling and afternoon tea in the lobby
3 towers on Marina Bay with about 1,850 rooms rebuilt by 2025 and, on top, the 150-metre infinity pool kept for guests who stay
The monorail back from Magic Kingdom, lagoon views and the Lava Pool; choose hotel rooms and villas separately.
3 ways back from Magic Kingdom, then spa and lagoon-side dining.
Savanna wildlife, pools and dining; buses take you to the parks.
Generous rooms, gardens and golf; Tower Suites changes the entrance, deck and service.
Ocean or forest rooms, warm pools and breakfast; fog remains part of the stay.
Fountain views, pools and central Strip; the spa is under renovation and extras add to the bill.
Shows, lazy river and remodelled rooms; scale, pool schedules and extras affect the choice.
This guide is written with Lumina, the marketing system for hotels.
