Raffles Singapore has stood on Beach Road since 1887: 115 suites, each with a butler, in white colonial buildings, and the bar where the Singapore Sling began.
A week here, month by monthFor 2 or 3 nights when the hotel is the trip, Raffles Singapore starts at S$1,282 for one night taken alone, on 3–6 May 2027 for 2 adults: the lowest seller’s price on Google. Anyone after a skyline from the bed or a resort-sized pool would choose Marina Bay or Sentosa.
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I would ask for a Palm Court Suite: 70 m² with a king bed, in the wing whose shared verandah looks onto the Palm Court, the garden the hotel reserves exclusively for its guests.
Consider 23–29 May 2027: single nights taken alone, for 2 adults, ranged from S$1,294 to S$1,378 on Google, read 13 October 2026. The dearest week, 23–29 December 2026, ran from S$2,351 to S$3,664 for single nights taken alone.
At 1887 by André, the official page sets a minimum spend of S$200 nett per person on lunch and dinner reservations, and a cancellation within 72 hours costs S$200 per person.
The Long Bar takes walk-ins only; the hotel’s own advice puts the shortest wait between 11am and 11.30am, a quieter spell from 2pm to 3.30pm, and weekdays after 9pm.
Raffles stands at 1 Beach Road in the civic district, 188 metres from Esplanade MRT station and 11 minutes on foot from the National Gallery. The Sarkies brothers opened it on 1 December 1887 with 10 rooms; Singapore declared it a National Monument on its centenary, and it reopened in August 2019 after its latest restoration. It belongs to Katara Hospitality, is sold by Accor under the Raffles name and holds 3 MICHELIN Keys.
Every room is a suite: a parlour, a bedroom, a marble bathroom with a bath and a walk-in shower, and a butler on call day and night. The smallest are 58 m², and 35 look onto the Palm Court, a garden the hotel keeps for its residents. Several guests write of doormen who greet them by name; one, writing in January 2026, of check-in done in the suite.
The same fame brings the city in. The Long Bar, Raffles Courtyard, the arcade’s shops and the restaurants are open to everyone, afternoon tea seats visitors in the lobby, and several residents mention the traffic. The suite pages name gardens, Fern Court and the Palm Court as the views; the pool is a 25-metre outdoor one on the third level. Google’s nightly prices ran from S$1,282 to S$3,664 when read on 13 October 2026.
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Raffles Singapore has stood on Beach Road since 1887: 115 suites, each with a butler, in white colonial buildings, and the bar where the Singapore Sling began.
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211 reviews read: the location pleases 9 guests in 10 who mention it, the room 9 in 10.
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We found the Long Bar where the Singapore Sling was first mixed in 1915, afternoon tea under the skylights of the Grand Lobby, North Indian cooking at the Tiffin Room and a 25-metre pool among gardens on the third level.
What we found reading the hotel’s own pages, one thing at a time.
At 1 Beach Road in the civic district: Esplanade MRT 2 minutes on foot, the National Gallery 11 and Marina Bay Sands 27.
A National Monument and a hotel since 1887, with resident historians, doormen who greet guests by name and gardens over more than a quarter of the estate.
Suites only, from 58 to 260 m², each with a parlour, a marble bathroom and a butler; the verandah is shared in the 4 smaller categories.
8 restaurants and bars, from 1887 by André with its 2 MICHELIN stars to the Long Bar; breakfast is ordered à la carte.
A 25-metre outdoor pool, a 24-hour gym for residents and a spa whose warm salt pool, sauna and steam room cost S$100 for 1 hour without a treatment.
Google Hotels: S$1,282 to S$3,664 a night for 2 between October 2026 and September 2027, service charge and tax inside.
A badge is an experience travellers look for, that is really here and that few hotels in the guide have.
Here: a National Monument and a hotel since 1887, with resident historians, doormen who greet guests by name and gardens over more than a quarter of the estate.
A history that goes back to at least 1887. 31 hotels of 335 hold it.
Every hotel with this badgeWhat do Raffles 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 civic district at the door, with the MRT, the shopping centres and Marina Bay within a walk; inside the walls, gardens that guests call a sanctuary in the middle of the city.
9 in 10 guests who mention it are happy with it. Suites with a separate parlour, ceiling fans, a marble bathroom with a bath and a large shower, and a verandah to sit on; some found the bedroom dark, the bed too soft or the neighbours’ footsteps overhead.
9 in 10 guests who mention it are happy with it. Doormen who greet guests by name, butlers who draw a bath, book dinner or bring a Singapore Sling to the suite, and check-in done in the parlour; some found the butler slow or distant, or the suite not ready at 3pm.
9 in 10 guests who mention it are happy with it. Breakfast is ordered dish by dish, in Tiffin Room or by the fountain, with a continental table beside it: guests remember the Singapore laksa and the breadth of choice; some found the local dishes less good than the rest.
5 in 10 guests who mention the price find it fair. Guests call it expensive; those happy with the bill write that a stay like this is worth the money, and those who are not point to service short of the price or to a hotel shared with visitors.
| What | Score out of 10 | Guests who mention it | Happy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Location | 8.5 | 39 | 92% |
| Room | 8.2 | 100 | 90% |
| Staff and service | 8.8 | 194 | 87% |
| Breakfast | 8.0 | 42 | 86% |
| Price | – | 31 | 52% |
The scores come from 211 Google reviews with text, left from 18 August 2023 to 9 August 2026. These are the 211 Google reviews, out of the 1,227 most recent with a text, that we read as written by people who slept at the hotel: the same listing also gathers visitors to the Long Bar, the afternoon tea and the building. 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.
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Price: for two on the night of 3 May 2027, from 1,282 SGD (seen on Google Hotels on 13 October 2026).
Single nights taken alone, for 2 adults, run from S$1,261 to S$2,264 between 5 January and 25 August 2027, against S$1,848 to S$3,664 from 16 December to 4 January. I would start with May 2027 and price any stay as a whole: booked as 7 nights from 16 November 2026, the lowest seller asked S$2,308 a night and the hotel’s own listing S$2,309, above the single nights taken alone.
| Period | Singapore dollars a night |
|---|---|
| 14 Oct. to 15 Dec. 2026 | 1,632–3,066 |
| 16 Dec. 2026 to 4 Jan. 2027 | 1,848–3,664 |
| 5 Jan. to 25 Aug. 2027 | 1,261–2,264 |
| 26 Aug. to 8 Sept. 2027 | 1,282–2,601 |
The lowest price any seller showed on Google Hotels for one night searched alone, for 2 adults, read 13 October 2026; no room or meal plan is specified. The calendar stops on 8 September 2027; 30 December 2026 to 2 January 2027 and 5 to 10 February 2027 have no price. Booked as 7 nights from 16 November 2026, the lowest seller Google listed that day asked S$2,308 a night; the hotel’s own listing, S$2,309.
Choose Raffles Singapore for 1 Beach Road in the civic district, with Esplanade MRT 2 minutes on foot. Choose Capella for a Sentosa knoll in 30 acres of garden, with Palawan Beach 10 minutes down a private trail.
| Hotel | A night, from | Changi by car |
|---|---|---|
| Raffles Singapore | 1,645 SGD | 19 minutes |
| Capella Singapore | 1,529 SGD | 28 to 31 minutes |
Lowest single-night seller price in the week of 16–22 November 2026, for 2 adults, read on Google on 13 October 2026; no room or meal plan is specified. Drive times are those computed without traffic on OpenStreetMap’s roads, as each hotel’s guide page gives them.
The bar of the Singapore Sling, tea under the lobby’s skylights, curries in copper tiffin boxes, a pool among the roofs and a warm salt pool at the spa.
The 2-storey Long Bar, in the Raffles Arcade since 1991, is the bar where Ngiam Tong Boon first mixed the Singapore Sling in 1915. The Original is S$44 on the menu and S$52.76 on the bill, and the peanut shells go on the floor. It opens at 11am, takes walk-ins only and is entered from North Bridge Road.
Served every day from 12.30pm to 5.30pm under the lobby’s skylights: sandwiches, scones and cakes on a 3-tier silver stand with JING teas, S$108 a guest before the charges. Tables are reserved, and flip-flops, slip-ons, rubber clogs and sandals are not permitted.
North Indian cooking in the Main Building, at lunch from noon and at dinner from 6.30pm, every day. The Mera Royal Dabba, curries in a 4-tier copper tiffin box, is S$144 a person and S$128 vegetarian before the charges. The offers that include breakfast serve it here.
The hotel’s French restaurant, where its page speaks of heritage gastronomy read through French cooking. It holds 2 MICHELIN stars and sets a minimum spend of S$200 nett a person.
The cocktail bar off the lobby opens at 5pm, with last orders at 11.30pm from Sunday to Thursday and at midnight on Friday and Saturday. It admits over-18s only and asks for «casual chic» dress.
One outdoor pool, 25 metres long by the spa’s account, among gardens on the third level of the Main Building, open from 7am to 7pm. The offers’ terms ask residents to reserve it in advance; a resident in November 2025 gives its depth as 1.1 to 1.4 metres.
In the Raffles Arcade, open to residents and visitors from 9am to 8pm. The hydrothermal rooms are a salt vitality pool kept at 38 to 42°C, a herbal sauna, an aromatherapy steam room and an ice fountain: free with a treatment of 60 minutes or more, otherwise S$100 a guest for 1 hour.
The Long Bar, Raffles Courtyard, the arcade’s shops and the restaurants are open to everyone, and visitors with a table take afternoon tea in the lobby. Residents writing in February 2025, January 2026 and February 2026 mention the public traffic; the Palm Court, the gym and, by one resident’s account, the pool deck are kept for people staying.
The Long Bar seats walk-ins only and visitors queue: reviews tell of 30 minutes, and one visitor writing in March 2025 was quoted an hour and a half and went elsewhere. 3 residents, writing in March 2025, November 2025 and March 2026, tell of a table arranged by the butler’s team, of being advised to ask the butler for priority and of being seated at once. A guide published in September 2026 says there is no priority line: ask the butler, without counting on it.
Menus and offers are printed before a 10% service charge and 9% goods and services tax, 19.9% together: S$100 on a menu is S$119.90 on the bill. The nightly prices on Google Hotels already include both: the hotel’s offers for 13 October 2026 show it.
Breakfast is in the rate only when the rate says so. Bought apart it is S$82 an adult and S$41 a child before the charges; on Google Hotels for 13 October 2026 the hotel’s next State Room offer cost S$196 more than its cheapest, the price of 2 breakfasts with the charges. Google Hotels lists «Breakfast: Free» all the same.
The verandah outside a Courtyard, State Room, Palm Court or Personality Suite is shared with the neighbouring suites. A private balcony comes with the Grand Hotel and Presidential Suites, by their pages’ feature lists.
The spa’s rules give access to its warm pool, sauna and steam room with a treatment of 60 minutes or more, or for S$100 a guest for 1 hour, and name no exemption for residents. The Bed & Breakfast and Suite Stays offers list the access as included.
The restaurants set a dress code. The Grand Lobby, Tiffin Room, Writers Bar and yì ask for «casual chic»: no flip-flops or slip-ons and, in the lobby, no rubber clogs or sandals either. Dress shorts are accepted at lunch only; the Long Bar recommends smart casual.
Free parking is listed among the inclusions of the Bed & Breakfast offer; no rate is published for a resident on another rate, so ask before booking. The car park’s public tariff is S$5 for the first hour and S$2 for each further half hour until 10.59pm, in the Land Transport Authority’s list, while Booking.com and Google call parking free.
Dogs and other pets cannot stay; certified service animals are admitted with their papers. Since 1 June 2026 pets are welcome at Raffles Courtyard, the alfresco bar, and nowhere else in the hotel.
By taxi or the hotel’s limousine from Changi, or by MRT to Esplanade or City Hall
| Changi Airport | 18.4 km and 19 minutes by car from Terminal 3 without traffic, on OpenStreetMap’s roads. The hotel’s own pages give 3 times: 16 to 21 minutes and 20 minutes on its About page, 25 to 30 in its FAQs; Accor’s page gives 17 and 20. The hotel’s limousine is S$280 on Accor’s page, which leaves unsaid whether that is each way |
|---|---|
| MRT | Esplanade station’s Exit F is on Beach Road, 188 metres and 2 minutes on foot. City Hall station is about 510 metres and 7 minutes away. The hotel names both, and puts Orchard Road a 2-minute ride away |
| By car | Self-parking and valet parking, by the hotel’s FAQs. The public tariff in the Land Transport Authority’s list is S$5 for the first hour, S$2 for each further half hour until 10.59pm and S$4 per entry overnight; no valet price is published |
| 2 entrances | The main entrance at 1 Beach Road leads to the lobby, Tiffin Room and afternoon tea. The Long Bar, the spa and the arcade’s restaurants are reached from 328 North Bridge Road |
| Check-in | From 3pm, with check-out by noon. Booking.com gives 18 as the minimum age to check in |
Distances and times on foot and by car were computed on OpenStreetMap’s roads on 12 October 2026, from the hotel’s position and without traffic; the walk to City Hall ends at the point the map gives for the station, at 150 North Bridge Road.
The hotel, the 2 MRT stations, the museums and theatres of the civic district and Marina Bay, with the minutes on foot.
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Breakfast is served at The Grand Lobby on weekdays from 7am to 10.30am.
Afternoon tea runs daily from 12.30pm to 5.30pm under the skylights of The Grand Lobby.
Writers Bar opens at 5pm, with Aperitivo Hour from Tuesday to Thursday between 7pm and 9pm.
Tiffin Room seats dinner from 6.30pm, with the last seating at 9pm.
The Long Bar seats until 10.30pm from Sunday to Wednesday and until 11.30pm from Thursday to Saturday.
The platforms’ scores, read on 12 October 2026, and what people who slept here say about the butlers, the suites, breakfast, the visitors and the bill.
On 12 October 2026 Google showed 4.6/5 from 6,829 ratings, Tripadvisor 4.7/5 from 6,560, Booking.com 9.7/10 from 389, Expedia 9.6/10 from 877 and Accor 4.8/5 from 1,806. Google’s reviews gather people who slept here with people who came for a drink: of the 1,227 newest with a text, 288 mention the Sling and 50 the butler. These are accounts of stays we have not checked.
Google6,829 reviews4.6/5
Tripadvisor6,560 reviews4.7/5
Booking.com389 reviews9.7/10
Expedia877 reviews9.6/106 accounts left on Google between September 2025 and May 2026 by people who stayed.
GoogleGuests writing in May 2026, on a 3-day stopover, were greeted by name at the door, upgraded to a Residence Suite and found a birthday cake laid out for a companion who was travelling with them and staying elsewhere.
GoogleA resident writing in November 2025 describes a suite of about 60 m² with a shower «as large as the elevators», chess on the verandah and a pool 1.1 to 1.4 metres deep, «serenely quiet». The butler, they were told, gets residents into the Long Bar ahead of the line.
GoogleGuests writing in December 2025, upgraded to a Palm Court Suite, found their keys and welcome gifts waiting in the parlour, and a butler who introduced the rooms over a chocolate course. They found storage short in a bedroom that size, and one of the iPads that run the room at times unresponsive.
GoogleA guest writing in October 2025 was offered the welcome Singapore Sling with or without alcohol, in the room or at the poolside bar, and took breakfast in Tiffin Room or by the fountain. The dishes to order were the gluten-free avocado toast and the Singapore laksa; the Raffles pancakes were the one to skip.
GoogleGuests writing in January 2026, who came in what they call the most expensive period of the year, heard the footsteps of the neighbours above, found the gym small and the hotel busy with visitors, and missed a lounge for the hours between check-out and the flight. They praise breakfast, the suites and the staff, and say they will come back.
GoogleA guest writing in September 2025 calls the rate of the cheapest suite steep and the suite luxurious without being huge, its rug past its best. Their advice is to stay in and use the grounds, since that is what the money buys.
An all-suite hotel of 115 suites in a colonial building at 1 Beach Road. It opened on 1 December 1887 as a 10-room hotel run by the Armenian Sarkies brothers, was declared a National Monument on its 100th anniversary, closed for a first restoration from 1989 to 1991 and reopened in August 2019 after the latest one, by the hotel’s own timeline. Gardens cover more than a quarter of the estate.
It has belonged to Katara Hospitality since 2011 and is sold by Accor under the Raffles brand. Google classes it as a 5-star hotel and the MICHELIN Guide gives it Three Keys; the guide’s page dates the opening to 1886, a year before the hotel’s own date. Raffles Sentosa Singapore is a second, separate hotel with its own listings.
8 places on the dining page: 1887 by André (French, 2 MICHELIN stars), 藝 yì by Jereme Leung (Chinese; lunch 11.30am to 1.30pm, dinner 6pm to 8.30pm, last seatings), Butcher’s Block (wood fire; dinner Tuesday to Saturday, 6pm to 9.30pm), Tiffin Room (North Indian; lunch from noon, dinner from 6.30pm), Raffles Courtyard (alfresco, noon to 10.30pm), The Grand Lobby (afternoon tea), the Long Bar (from 11am) and Writers Bar (from 5pm, over-18s).
Google Hotels still describes a bar with billiard tables, Italian eateries and a bakery: on 12 October 2026 the hotel’s dining page had none of the 3.
Anyone can. The Long Bar is at #02-01 in the Raffles Arcade, entered from North Bridge Road, and takes walk-ins only: it opens at 11am, with the last seating at 10.30pm from Sunday to Wednesday and at 11.30pm from Thursday to Saturday. The hotel’s own advice is to come between 11am and 11.30am, between 2pm and 3.30pm, or after 9pm on a weekday. Visitors’ reviews tell of waits of 30 minutes; one, writing in March 2025, was quoted an hour and a half and went elsewhere.
Whether residents go ahead is told 2 ways. 3 residents write of it: one, in March 2025, had a table arranged by the butler’s team; one, in November 2025, says residents are advised to ask the butler for priority; one, in March 2026, was seated at once. A guide of September 2026 says everyone queues together. The official page says only that Butcher’s Block can arrange its diners’ visit after the meal. Gemini, asked on 12 October 2026, said residents skip the queue by showing a suite keycard: no source read says so.
The Original Singapore Sling is S$44 on the Long Bar’s menu, read on 12 October 2026: S$52.76 with the 10% service charge and the 9% tax. The alcohol-free Singapore Sling Zero, served since 27 June 2026, is S$38, or S$45.56. With an Original Sling the souvenir glass is S$22 more.
In The Grand Lobby, every day from 12.30pm to 5.30pm. It is S$108 a guest on the menu, S$129.49 with service charge and tax; the gluten-free tea costs the same and a glass of Billecart-Salmon Brut is S$20 more. Tables are reserved online, by telephone or by e-mail, and the lobby is entered from the main hotel entrance. Dress is «casual chic»: no flip-flops, slip-ons, rubber clogs or sandals.
The hotel’s North Indian restaurant, in the Main Building. Its page gives lunch every day from noon, last seating 1.30pm, and dinner from 6.30pm, last seating 9pm, and recommends a reservation. The Mera Royal Dabba, curries served in a 4-tier copper tiffin box, is S$144 a person and S$128 vegetarian on the menu: S$172.66 and S$153.47 on the bill.
Only in rates that say so. On Google Hotels for 13 October 2026 the hotel’s cheapest State Room offer was S$2,529 and the next S$2,725, S$196 more: 2 breakfasts with the charges. Bought apart, breakfast is S$82 an adult and S$41 a child on the menu (S$98.32 and S$49.16 on the bill), from 7am to 10.30am: a continental table and unlimited dishes cooked to order. Google Hotels lists «Breakfast: Free».
The hotel tells the venue 2 ways: the Bed & Breakfast offer serves it at Tiffin Room, while The Grand Lobby’s page lists breakfast from Monday to Friday and carries the menu. A guest writing in October 2025 says the table can be in Tiffin Room or by the fountain.
Google Hotels, read on 13 October 2026, for 2 adults and one night, in Singapore dollars: S$1,662 on Monday 19 October 2026, S$3,066 on Tuesday 20 October, S$1,634 on Friday 6 November, S$1,651 on Saturday 28 November, S$1,788 on Wednesday 2 December, S$3,664 on Tuesday 29 December, S$1,414 on Tuesday 26 January 2027, S$2,169 on Saturday 13 February, S$1,282 on Wednesday 23 June and S$1,282 on Tuesday 7 September.
Each is the lowest one-night price Google shows, with no suite named. The 10% service charge and the 9% tax are inside, by our arithmetic. The hotel’s next State Room offer cost S$196 more than its cheapest, and 2 breakfasts at S$82 with both charges come to that. For the night of 13 October, in what the hotel calls Race Week, Google Hotels listed the hotel’s own offers suite by suite: S$2,529 for a State Room Suite, S$2,876 for a Courtyard Suite, S$3,260 for a Palm Court Suite and S$21,406 for the one-bedroom Presidential Suite.
2 readings the same morning differed on 16 nights: 29 December showed S$3,664, then S$3,030. Perplexity, asked the same day, gave about US$1,800 for 13 February 2027; the calendar’s S$2,169 for that night is in Singapore dollars.
A 10% service charge, then the 9% goods and services tax on the total: 19.9% together. Suite rates carry both, say the offers’ terms, and so does what is eaten, drunk and booked at the Long Bar, the afternoon tea, breakfast, Tiffin Room and the spa, by their menus. The hotel publishes no tourist or city tax. The nightly prices on Google Hotels already include both.
8 categories on the suites page, sold as 15 types. The 4 smaller ones come with a king bed for 2 or with 2 doubles for 3: Courtyard Suites and Personality Suites at 58 m², State Room Suites at 67 m² and Palm Court Suites at 70 m². Promenade Suites are 85 m². The larger categories have 2 sizes each: Grand Hotel Suites are 105 m² with one bedroom and 150 m² with 2, Residence Suites 120 m² and 150 m², Presidential Suites 190 m² and 260 m².
Every suite has a separate parlour and bedroom and a marble bathroom with a bath and a walk-in shower. The verandah is shared in the 4 smaller categories; the Grand Hotel and Presidential Suites list a private balcony. The suites page and the weddings page still mention studios, but no Studio Suite is among the 15 types on sale and its old address returns an error.
Yes: «24-hour Raffles Butler service» is in the feature list of every suite page. The pages name what a butler arranges: dining in the suite, on the verandah or in the parlour, and the outings of «The Butler Did It», which need one month’s notice. Guests add drawing a bath, booking dinner and bringing a Singapore Sling to the room.
Gemini, asked on 12 October 2026, listed unpacking and the pressing of 2 garments a day: the hotel’s pages list neither, so ask the butler before counting on them. How many suites one butler looks after is not published.
Reserved on the hotel’s own pages: the Palm Court, the fitness centre, open 24 hours, and 2 complimentary outings, the Hawker Food Trail and a visit to The Intan, a Peranakan home museum, with limousine transfers. A resident in 2025 calls the pool deck residents-only, and 2 visitors, in 2023 and 2025, write that they were turned away from the lobby; neither rule is printed on the site.
Open to visitors: the Long Bar, Raffles Courtyard, the arcade’s shops and boutique, the spa, the restaurants and, with a table booked, afternoon tea, Tiffin Room and Writers Bar. The public heritage tour costs from S$20.
Google showed 4.6/5 from 6,829 ratings on 12 October 2026, Tripadvisor 4.7/5 from 6,560, Booking.com 9.7/10 from 389, Expedia 9.6/10 from 877 and Accor 4.8/5 from 1,806. Google’s figure includes people who came for a drink: the portals where only residents write are higher.
Of 211 Google reviews that tell of a night in the hotel, 194 guests write about the staff and the service, the butlers and the doormen among them, 100 about their suite and 42 about breakfast. The reservations that recur are the price, the number of visitors in the public areas and, for a few, a room that was not ready on arrival.
It depends on the room. The Long Bar recommends smart casual. The Grand Lobby, Tiffin Room, Writers Bar and yì ask for «casual chic»: men are encouraged to wear a collared shirt, trousers and appropriate footwear, and flip-flops and slip-ons are not permitted, nor rubber clogs or sandals in the lobby. Dress shorts are accepted at lunch only, and Writers Bar admits over-18s only.
There is self-parking and valet parking, by the hotel’s FAQs. The car park’s public rate in the Land Transport Authority’s list is S$5 for the first hour and S$2 for each further half hour from 6am to 10.59pm, then S$4 per entry until 5.59am; one motoring site gives S$4 and S$1.50.
For residents, free parking for the length of the stay is listed in the Bed & Breakfast offer. Booking.com says «free on-site private parking» and Google Hotels «Parking: Free» beside «Self parking: Extra charge»; the valet price and the nightly rate for a resident on another rate are not published.
Raffles Spa is in the Raffles Arcade, open to residents and visitors every day from 9am to 8pm, with treatments from 9.30am to 6.30pm. Its hydrothermal rooms are a vitality pool of Peruvian pink salt kept at 38 to 42°C, a herbal sauna, an aromatherapy steam room and an ice fountain. A 60-minute jet-lag massage is S$285 from Monday to Thursday and S$320 from Friday to Sunday; the 90-minute gemstone massage is S$430 and S$475, all before the charges.
The thermal rooms are free with a treatment of 60 minutes or more, or S$100 a guest for 1 hour, S$119.90 on the bill. The spa’s rules name no exemption for residents; the Bed & Breakfast and Suite Stays offers include the access. The fitness centre, on the third floor, is for residents only.
One outdoor swimming pool, among gardens on the third level of the Main Building, open from 7am to 7pm by the About page; the spa’s page gives its length as 25 metres, and the offers’ terms ask residents to reserve it in advance. Booking.com counts 2 pools: the second is the spa’s warm vitality pool. Depth and heating are not published; a resident in November 2025 gives 1.1 to 1.4 metres.
Visitors can: the resident historians lead a public heritage tour, booked through Raffles Boutique, from S$20, with a map, a memento and a jar of kaya jam at the end. Its dates and length are on the boutique’s booking page.
Residents have the historians’ tour arranged by their butler, with a reservation in advance, and 2 complimentary outings: a self-guided Hawker Food Trail of 3 hours and a visit to The Intan with limousine transfers. Several guests tell others to take the historians’ tour.
At 1 Beach Road, Singapore 189673, in the civic district; Google places it in Bras Basah and scores the area 4.7 out of 5, 4.8 for transit. The Long Bar, the spa and the arcade’s restaurants have their own address and entrance, 328 North Bridge Road.
Guests describe the inside as calm: «an oasis», a garden-level suite «au calme», a suite «very quiet». 2 guests write the opposite of their own room; one of them, writing in January 2026, tells of footsteps from the suite above.
Esplanade station’s Exit F is on Beach Road, 188 metres and 2 minutes on foot; City Hall station is about 510 metres and 7 minutes. On foot the Suntec convention centre is 8 minutes away (567 metres), the National Gallery 11 (824 metres) and the Esplanade theatres 12 (890 metres). Marina Bay Sands is a 27-minute walk (1,991 metres) and Gardens by the Bay 33 minutes (2,511 metres). The walks were measured on OpenStreetMap’s paths on 12 October 2026.
By taxi or private car, or by MRT to City Hall or Esplanade. From Terminal 3 the drive is 18.4 km and 19 minutes without traffic, on OpenStreetMap’s roads. The hotel’s pages say 16 to 21 minutes, 20 minutes and 25 to 30 minutes, and Accor says 17 and 20. The hotel’s limousine is S$280 on Accor’s page, which leaves unsaid whether that is each way and whether the charges are added. The «airport shuttle» that Booking.com and Google list is this private car.
A one-way limousine transfer is included in the Bed & Breakfast and Suite Stays offers.
On raffles.com, which runs on Accor’s booking engine, or on the portals. What cancelling costs depends on what was booked. Raffles Suite Retreat, for 3 nights or more, is paid in full at booking and can be cancelled free up to 3 days before arrival, until 6pm; Suite Stays is guaranteed by card and can be cancelled flexibly; Grandeur of Raffles is paid in advance and not refunded. On the standard flexible rate, the terms show on the booking page for the dates chosen.
On 12 October 2026 the offers page listed 9 stay offers, besides 2 for Christmas. Bed & Breakfast, from one night, adds breakfast for 2, a S$50 boutique credit, a one-way airport limousine, parking and the spa’s hydrothermal rooms. Suite Stays Designed by Raffles Butlers, from 2 nights, adds afternoon tea for 2. Raffles Suite Retreat, from 3 nights booked 3 days ahead, includes breakfast and return limousine transfers and is prepaid. All are quoted before the charges.
Yes. The weddings page gives the Jubilee Ballroom for 250 guests and more and the Palm Ballroom for up to 200; smaller rooms are the Casuarina Suite and the East India Room, and outdoors the Palm Garden and The Lawn, where solemnisations are held. The hotel counts 2,500 m² of event space. No price or minimum spend is published: the page gives the events team’s telephone and e-mail.
No New Year’s Eve dinner or programme was on the hotel’s site on 12 October 2026: the offers page carried 2 Christmas stays and What’s On stopped at early November. Google showed no price for the nights of 30 December 2026 to 2 January 2027, which is not a closure.
Children of all ages are accepted. The 2-doubles form of the Courtyard, State Room, Palm Court and Personality Suites sleeps 3, and the 2-bedroom suites 6; the offers allow 2 adults and 2 children of 12 or under in a suite. Booking.com lists a cot free on request and an extra bed at S$155.87 a night; a child’s breakfast is S$41 on the menu, S$35 a night on the offers for ages 6 to 12, before the charges.
Google Hotels lists a «Kids’ club»; the hotel’s site has none, nor a children’s pool: ask the hotel before counting on either. Writers Bar is for over-18s, and the spa’s thermal rooms are not recommended for young teenagers.
Not to stay: the hotel’s FAQs say it takes no dogs or pets, certified service animals excepted with their papers. Since 1 June 2026 pets are welcome at Raffles Courtyard, the alfresco bar in the arcade, and only there.
The hotel’s FAQs say it offers accessible facilities and rooms, and the Courtyard Suite’s page says accessible suites are available on request. How many there are, in which category, and whether the Long Bar’s upper floor has a step-free route are not published. Google’s review themes are split on accessibility: 13 positive mentions and 10 negative.
Check-in is from 3pm and check-out by noon, the same in the hotel’s FAQs, on Google and on Booking.com, which adds a minimum age of 18 to check in. Fees for an early arrival or a late departure are not published; 3 guests, writing in March 2025, August 2025 and January 2026, tell of waiting for their suite.
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
38 villas with private plunge pools and 2 colonial bungalows of the 1880s on a knoll of Sentosa, with 3 pools, Auriga Spa and peacocks on the lawns
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
Frescoes, Gherardesca Garden and a seasonal pool in central Florence.
Place du Casino, Le Grill and a connection to Thermes Marins.
Rooms from around 68 m² and fountains on Performance Lake, with SkyCab and a spa in Cotai
A generous room above Admiralty, with dinner higher still
For Central and IFC, with harbour views from pools and bedrooms.
For harbour-facing windows, 53 m² rooms and Manor Club.
Rooms above Kowloon, Club Lounge and an indoor pool on 118
This guide is written with Lumina, the marketing system for hotels.
