Marion Hume | January 3rd, 2012
Photos Courtesy of Hotel Fort Canning
The thing with Singapore is a hotel opens and six months’ later, it is so jam-packed, you can hardly find space for you and your baggage in the lobby as you try to check in. This is Boomtown and make no mistake.
So it is nice to discover there is a [...]
Asia, Hotels We Love, Miscellaneous, Singapore, Stuff we Love
Marion Hume | May 25th, 2011
Photo of Lantern Courtesy of The Fullerton Hotel
18-29?
30-49?
All grown up?
Take your age into account when selecting your room in Singapore, where it’s hard to keep up, given they seem to open a new hotel every minute. The reason for that? About 1 million visitors a month stopover in Singapore, which only had 44,000 hotel rooms [...]
Asia, Hotels We Love, Miscellaneous, Singapore, Stuff we Love
Marion Hume | May 4th, 2011
Photo Courtesy of Travelfolio.com
This writer is feeling rather old. The last time I was in Singapore, as opposed to grabbing five hours kip between flights at the transit hotel at Changhi Airport, it felt like a languid colonial city with a teaming Chinatown at its heart. Then people said it got dull. So I didn’t [...]
Asia, How to Judge an Obscure and Odd Museum, Miscellaneous, Singapore, United States
Marion Hume | September 1st, 2010
Photos Courtesy of Quincy Hotel
Hallelujah! A hotel utterly conceived around the understanding that those checking in might be suffering from a common ailment called jet-lag.
The Quincy Hotel, Singapore, ticks all the boxes.
Early check-in to suit arrival times of transworld planes? Check. Super-fast transit from showing passport at front desk to bedroom with blackout blinds, (with [...]
Asia, Hotels We Love, Singapore, Slideshows, Stuff we Love
PaperPlane | June 4th, 2008
Earn Chen is about as local as you get in Singapore. He grew up along the city’s Bukit Timah Rd and is now co-owns the city’s best high-end streetwear store with DJ and record producer James Lavelle. Located in a two storey house on Devonshire Road, Surrender stocks limited edition goods from [...]
Asia, Singapore, Stuff we Love