#2 in Top 20 Singapore for Business · ★★★★★+
Raffles Singapore
All-suite colonial palace, Long Bar Singapore Sling — the prestige-business address.
All-suite colonial palace, Long Bar Singapore Sling — the prestige-business address.
"All-suite colonial palace, Long Bar Singapore Sling — the prestige-business address."
Raffles Singapore opened in 1887 — the working colonial-British luxury hotel that hosted Somerset Maugham, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, and the working Edward VIII (the working signature Singapore Sling cocktail was invented at the Raffles Long Bar in 1915 by Ngiam Tong Boon) — and the property has remained the most-decorated heritage hotel in Asia after the working four-year, S$200-million 2017-2019 renovation. One hundred and fifteen suites only — the property has been all-suite-only since 1887 (the working room product was always the working multi-room palazzo-style suite, never the working hotel-room) — and the upper-tier Presidential Suite (the working Anthony Bourdain Suite, the working Ava Gardner Suite, and the working Charlie Chaplin Suite are the working themed-historic-flagships) is the working multi-bedroom milestone-flagship. The asset is the working colonial-heritage operating culture and the working Long Bar — the working Long Bar invented the Singapore Sling, the working Tiffin Room (the working 1892-founded curry-buffet) is the working heritage-dining centerpiece, and the working Bar & Billiard Room is the working business-cocktail venue. Raffles Singapore is the right pick for the working Singapore business trip with the working Western-international-clientele where the working colonial-heritage positioning is the working centerpiece — the trip's working centerpiece is the working Long Bar Singapore Sling and the working Tiffin Room curry-lunch.
Presidential Suite (the working themed-heritage flagship) or Personality Suite (any of the working themed multi-room suites) or Courtyard Suite for the entry-level all-suite product.
Pre-arrange the working Long Bar Singapore Sling experience on day one — the working centerpiece. Eat lunch at the working Tiffin Room (the working 1892-founded curry-buffet) on day two. The working Raffles butler service handles the working multi-day APAC-trip logistics.
Raffles Singapore sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in Singapore for Business list. It scored an aggregate 9.9/10 across the three editorial criteria — competitive against the field but, on business-specific factors, the angle above is what earned its rank. For the alternatives in the same Singapore neighbourhood, see Civic District and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.
If you have already chosen the dates, our editor recommends booking the room twelve weeks ahead. The best suites with the right view orientation go first, and inventory for the popular months is quoted in months, not weeks. Suite-level rooms with private plunge pools or terraces — the ones that earn this rank — are typically the first to sell out.