Saturday, December 21, 2013

Best Hotels in Singapore


Which are the best hotels in Singapore? If you look at different criteria, you will have different hotels in the list. One can think that it is best to look at online hotel reservation sites where hotel guest reviews can give you the best. But this will also create different lists because different online booking sites are popular among different user groups.

To create our best hotels in Singapore list, we have looked at hotelscombined.com, one of the most popular hotel meta-search engine in the world. A meta-search engine is a search engine which compiles results from different search engines. In this case hotelscombined.com compiles its results from popular online hotel reservation sites and allows its users to search and compare hotel rates in one search.

Hotelscombined also provides an aggregated summary of hotel reviews and ratings from external sites. These aggregated customer ratings are the ones we use to determine the best hotels in Singapore. We have included only the hotels with 9.0 or more rating and at list 250 user reviews (hotelscombined calls these hotels stellar hotels).

Below is not a ranking list but a group of outstanding Singapore hotels judged on guest reviews.

Mandarin Oriental, Singapore

5-Star Mandarin Oriental Singapore is a luxury hotel located in Marina Centre next to Marina Square Shopping Mall and near Suntec City (one of Asia Pacific’s largest convention centers the Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre is here). The hotel is among a cluster of Marina Bay area hotels near Singapore's financial district. With 527 rooms and suites, 6 restaurants and bars, and the Spa at Mandarin Oriental, Singapore and a top luxury, it is nor suprisingly one of the best hotel in Singapore.

In 2013, Mandarin Oriental Singapore has become one of the only hotel in Singapore to receive the Forbes Five Star designation in both hotel and spa categories in the prestigious Forbes Travel Guide for two consecutive years (2012 and 2013).

Mandarin Oriental Singapore pool area
Mandarin Oriental Singapore pool area.
Raffles Hotel Singapore

Colonial-style Raffles Hotel Singapore is not only one of the best hotels in Singapore, she is also one of the best known icons of the city state. With an excellent central location, large and comfortable rooms, modern but also historic facilities and top class luxury, this is not only Singapore's but one of Asia's best hotel in Singapore.

Raffles Hotel Singapore
Raffles Hotel Singapore
The St. Regis Singapore
Located near Singapore's shopping street named Orchard Road and offering 5-Star luxury in this prime location, St. Regis Singapore is a luxury traveller haven. This is also one of the most expensive in Singapore. The exclusiveness of the hotel starts from the airport from where a luxurious St. Regis Bentley and chauffeur can be arranged for your journey to the The St. Regis Singapore.

Li Chen, Dragon-riding Bodhisattva (2001, St Regis Singapore) - 20091127
Li Chen's Dragon-riding Bodhisattva (2001) in front of the St. Regis Singapore.
Source : Flickr: ST REGIS – Singapore
Shangri La Hotel Singapore

Five-star deluxe hotel Shangri La Hotel Singapore (新加坡香格里拉大酒店)  is the flagship and the first hotel of Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts. Located at the Tanglin Road end of famous Orchard Road it is included in hotelscombined's Asia-Pacific ‘Stellar Stays’ hotels list and is the only hotel from Singapore in the list.

Shangri La Hotel Singapore has 747 guestrooms and suites in the Tower Wing, Garden Wing and Valley Wing, 127 serviced apartments and 55 luxurious condominium units. The hotel boasts 15 acres of landscaped gardens which are visible through the glass walls enclosing the lobby and dining areas, and has been referred to as "Singapore's other botanical garden".

Shangri La Hotel Singapore
Shangri La Hotel Singapore outdoor pool
The Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore

This 32-storey luxury hotel located at 7 Raffles Avenue in the Marina Bay Area of Singapore has 608 guest rooms and suites including nineteen one-bedroom Millenia Suites, three two-bedroom Millenia Suites and a luxurious Ritz-Carlton Suite. All of the spacious guest rooms and bathrooms in The Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore offer panoramic views of Marina Bay or city skyline.

Conrad Centennial Singapore

5-Star luxurious Conrad Centennial Singapore (港丽酒店) is located in the Downtown Core (near Millenia Tower), Marina Centre, Singapore. The hotel has 507 guestrooms including 25 suites, and 31 floors with two basements. Conrad Centennial is sister hotel to The Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore and both hotels are owned by the same owner, Pontiac Land (founded by the Kwee family).

Four Seasons Hotel Singapore 

Located along the tree lined Orchard Boulvard (paralel to Orchard Road), Four Seasons Hotel Singapore is a luxurious hotel right next to Orchard Road and very near to Singapore's Central Business District.

Holiday Inn Singapore Orchard City Centre

The only 4-star hotel in our Singapore's best hotels list, Holiday Inn Singapore Orchard City Centre, is a relatively afforable hotel right in the middle of Orchard Road area. If you are looking for a Singapore hotel with clean and large rooms, good breakfast, central and prime location and nice service and you are in Singapore for mainly shopping, sight seeing and dining, 4-Star Holiday Inn Singapore Orchard City Centre is a very good hotel. Centrally located at a short walking distance from trendy shopping malls of Orchard Road,  the hotel offers one of the best hotel stay in Singapore for shoppers in the town.

Naumi Hotel

The only boutique hotel in our list, Naumi Hotel is located in Singapore city center right opposite side of Raffles Hotel Singapore and Suntec Convension Center. City Hall MRT Station is quite near. This luxurious boutique Singapore hotel is famous with its rooftop pool with fantastic Singapore skyline view and luxurious and comfortable rooms and facilities.

Naumi Hotel
Other hotels in Singapore with 9.0+ guest rating over 250++ guest reviews:

- The Fullerton Bay Hotel 

- Capella Singapore on Sentosa Island

Pan Pacific Singapore

Fairmont Singapore

The Fullerton Hotel Singapore

Crowne Plaza Hotel Changi Airport 

Grand Hyatt Singapore

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