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Property Amenities
The hotel's 18 distinctive restaurants and bars include an upscale French restaurant, a New York-style deli, a bakery, an Indian curry house, and an exquisite steakhouse. Palm trees on the hotel's rooftop surround the outdoor lap pool and Jacuzzi. The Raffles Amrita Spa includes a fitness center and treatment rooms (surcharge) for soothing massages, reflexology, facials, body wraps, and aromatherapy.
An on-site shopping arcade houses more than 40 shops selling art, antiques, designer clothing, accessories, jewelry, chocolates, and wine.
There are seven function rooms, including a grand ballroom with Austrian chandeliers and murals of early Singapore; event catering, audio-visual equipment, and high-speed Internet access are available (surcharge). A 24-hour business center provides printing, faxing, copying, secretarial services, and high-speed Internet access; fees apply.
Rooms
Featuring antique furnishings and hand-woven Oriental carpets, the 103 guest suites have separate parlors, bedrooms, dressing areas, and bathrooms. Modern amenities include high-speed Internet access (surcharge), minibars, CD players, in-room safes, and two TVs with DVD players available upon request. Large bathrooms have deep marble tubs and separate showers, marble vanities with double sinks, ceiling fans, louvered windows, antique scales, telephones, bathrobes, slippers, and Amrita Spa toiletries. Welcome amenities include Chinese tea and tropical fruit, and complimentary 24-hour butler service is available via a call button.
Room Amenities
Dining
Shinji by Kanesaka - Smart-casual sushi dining in an intimate setting.
Raffles Grill - An elegant dining room restored to its early-20th-century glory, with chandeliers, ceiling fans, tall French windows overlooking the Palm Court, crisp linens, and black wrought-iron chairs. Cuisine is a blend of classic and contemporary French. Open for lunch Monday through Friday and dinner nightly; closed Sunday.
Empire Café - A casual restaurant modeled after a 1920s Singaporean coffee house, with tiled walls, marble-topped teakwood tables, and polished hard-back chairs. Cuisine emphasizes local favorites, including laksa and Hainan chicken rice. Open from mid-morning until late evening.
Royal China at Raffles - An opulently decorated Chinese restaurant with highly varnished floors and walls, arched ceilings, red-and-gold lanterns, and black-lacquer chairs. Signature dishes include lobster noodles, roast suckling pig, and dim sum. Open for lunch and dinner.
Ah Teng's Bakery - This small restaurant serves homemade pastries, sandwiches, and cakes. Antique-style tables and chairs and brass fittings give the space a nostalgic feel. Open from early morning until late evening.
Long Bar Steakhouse - Reminiscent of a 1930s rubber-plantation dwelling, with an intricately tiled floor, white walls, timbered ceiling, collection of antique plates, crisp linens, and carved-back chairs. Cuisine emphasizes steaks and seafood prepared with Asian spices. Open for lunch Monday through Friday, nightly dinner, and Sunday brunch.
Seah Street Deli - A New York-style delicatessen, circa 1950, with music from a jukebox and generously sized sandwiches, entrées, and salads. Open from mid-morning until late evening.
Tiffin Room - This elegant dining room continues a tradition of serving a lunch and dinner tiffin curry buffet that began in 1890. Cuisine is Northern Indian, with a thali set served on a platter of ornate silver. Open for breakfast, lunch, high tea, and dinner.
Raffles Courtyard & Gazebo Bar - Offering alfresco dining under swaying palms in a tropical garden, with seafood and other fare prepared Asian-style. Open from mid-morning until late evening.
Bar & Billiard Room - Established as a private club in 1896, with a soaring ceiling, wicker chairs, solid carved tables, antiques, and two 19th-century billiard tables. A Continental lunch buffet and high tea are served on weekdays, and brunch is available weekends. Live jazz is featured on weekday evenings. Open from mid-morning until late evening.
Long Bar - Home of the Singapore Sling cocktail, this two-story bar evokes a Malayan planters' club from the 1930s, with its dark-wood timbered floor and walls, low wicker chairs, and period artifacts. Traditional pub fare and light snacks are served, and there is live music most evenings. Open from midday until late evening.
Writer's Bar - This intimate lounge honors the literary luminaries who have stayed at the hotel or written about it, including Rudyard Kipling, Noël Coward, and Somerset Maugham. A pianist plays most afternoons and evenings. Open from mid-morning until late evening.
Raffles Creamery - A teppanyaki-style ice cream parlor offering 30 flavours of quality homemade ice cream and sherbet with mix-ins such as fresh fruit, nuts, candy, cookies, and brownies. Fruit smoothies, milk shakes, and freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juices are also on the menu. Open from mid-morning till late-evening.
Pool Bar - Drinks and snacks are served poolside from this lounge with ceiling fans, wicker chairs, and a marble-topped bar. Open from mid-morning until mid-evening.
Recreation
Palm trees surround the 20-meter (66-feet) outdoor lap pool and spa tub. Inside, a state-of-the-art fitness center provides treadmills, stationery bicycles, and a universal weight machine.
Joggers can run around the Padang cricket grounds two blocks away, and tennis and squash courts are located within two km (1.25 mi) of the hotel.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
The preferred airport for Raffles Hotel is Singapore (SIN-Changi) - 16.4 km / 10.2 mi.
Distances are calculated in a straight line from the property's location to the point of interest or airport and may not reflect actual travel distance.
Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometre.
