How many times have you been walking pass the Raffles Hotel and how much you knows about the Hotel , here i wanted to share some info i read about the history about this historic hotel of Singapore.
From the outlook you probably knew that this piece of history, Raffles Hotel is a colonial style hotel, known for its luxurious accommodation and superb restaurants. Within the hotel it has a tropical garden courtyard, museum, and Victorian-style theatre call jubilee. And many famous peoples had stay in the hotel before like Micheal jackson, Huge Jackman, Charlie Chaplin Queen Elizabeth II and more………
To many Singaporeans and travelers, Raffles Hotel was remembered of the 1970s. Taking a trishaw ride to the main door and walk through its spacious ballroom and enjoy a “must have” pink gin sling. Singapore Sling was invented by bartender Ngiam Tong Boon around 1910 from Raffles hotel.
In the eyes of the tourists Raffles Hotel was a charming, Tropical, Unique colonial building.
But in1980s the hotel was closed for major renovation and the hotel really need a new facelift at that time. Little did we know, Raffles hotel went through many major decision before the renovation. The hotel was re open on September, 1991 after a facelift of S$160 millions. Today the Raffles Hotel has a private in house guest area and a public area where group of tourist can have lunch or tea and to buy a Raffles T-shirt. You can see tourists come here to take a picture at the main entrance.
Source : Singapore, Tourism & Me and Wikipedia