Raffles Singapore

National monument hotel at 1 Beach Road, opened in 1887 by the Sarkies Brothers as a ten-room inn and later gazetted as monument number 20 on 4 March 1987. Accor operates the house for owner Katara Hospitality. The 2017 to 2019 restoration by Alexandra Champalimaud with Aedas, the first full works since 1991, reopened on 1 August 2019 with 115 all-suite rooms across nine categories, from Studio and Courtyard to Personality and Presidential. Every suite keeps a veranda. The Long Bar, where Ngiam Tong Boon mixed the Singapore Sling, sits again in the Raffles Arcade with the peanut-shell floor intact. Tiffin Room, afternoon tea in the Grand Lobby, and the Writers Bar fill the rest of the public rooms. Book through raffles.com/singapore. Confirm restaurant dress codes and Long Bar crowd patterns around Chinese New Year and Formula 1 weekends, when Beach Road becomes a ceremonial stay rather than a quiet courtyard. The Civic District is the point of the address: City Hall MRT, the Padang, and the National Gallery sit a short morning walk away once the heat has not yet peaked. Use the hotel as the heritage counterweight to Orchard and Marina Bay towers, not as a shopping-mall base. Recheck suite categories, tea seatings, and any temporary outlet closures on the official site before you lock a race-week or Art Week diary.