COMO Metropolitan

COMO Metropolitan Singapore is the wellness pick on Orchard Road, a 156 room hotel with contrast and red light therapy rooms, a Pilates studio and Cedric Grolet pastry in the building. The trade-offs are concrete: no bathtub in any room, small entry categories and a breakfast guests routinely criticise.

"A wellness led alternative on Orchard with contrast and red light therapy rooms plus Cedric Grolet pastry, but no bathtubs and small entry rooms."

Aggregate 9.0/10 on our editorial scale (Room & Design, Service, Location). Independently scored; see our methodology. This is our opinion, not an aggregate of user reviews.

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What makes COMO Metropolitan special?

COMO Metropolitan Singapore is a wellness hotel that happens to sit on Orchard Road, and that framing explains everything about it. It opened in 2023 inside the integrated COMO Orchard building at 30 Bideford Road, with 156 rooms over 11 floors, direct access to the shopping belt and pale, spare, light-filled interiors behind full-height windows. The differentiator is the COMO Shambhala wellness floor: single and double treatment rooms, a red light therapy room, two contrast therapy rooms, yoga studios and a Pilates studio equipped with Balanced Body machines. That is a genuinely serious recovery set-up by hotel standards, and it is paired with a rooftop pool and pool bar looking over the Orchard district. In the building sits Cedric Grolet Singapore, the French pastry chef's fourth shop after Paris and London and his first in Asia. Against that, the hotel makes real sacrifices: no bathtub anywhere in the building, small entry rooms, and a breakfast guests criticise consistently. It is a specialist rather than a grand hotel, and it should be booked as one.

Which room should you book?

Two facts should decide this booking. First, there are 156 rooms and suites over 11 floors, and entry-level Cairnhill Rooms measure 28 to 36 sqm, small for the price bracket and small enough that anyone unpacking for a week should book a category up. Second, no room or suite in the hotel has a bathtub: every bathroom is walk-in shower only, a real omission from a wellness-led luxury brand and the most concrete criticism available. The design is pale, spare and light-filled, with full-height windows, and opinion divides sharply. Some guests read it as calm and disciplined; others call the fit-out sparse and cheap-feeling, pointing to painted sliding wardrobe doors and the absence of rugs or soft textures. Some also note there is no bidet. If you like the COMO aesthetic you will be happy; if you want a grand hotel room with a deep tub, no upgrade here will fix it.

Where should you eat and drink?

In-house dining is deliberately narrow, so plan to eat out. The headline is Cedric Grolet Singapore, the pastry chef's fourth shop after Paris and London and his first in Asia, serving the trompe-l'oeil fruit pastries that made his name alongside sandwiches and an exclusive tea menu. There is also a rooftop pool bar. That is the confirmed extent of it, which is thin for a luxury hotel and survivable only because the building opens directly onto the Orchard shopping belt and its food halls. Breakfast is the weak point guests raise most often: a very minimal buffet supplemented by a short a la carte menu, served in a room some reviewers compare unfavourably to a 1990s warehouse. The hotel holds no Michelin star. Note that Candlenut, the one-star Peranakan restaurant, is at COMO Dempsey, a separate COMO destination, and not at this hotel. Dinner means stepping out, which on Orchard Road is no hardship.

What is the spa and pool like?

This is the most serious hotel wellness floor on Orchard Road and the reason the hotel exists. COMO Shambhala runs single and double treatment rooms, a red light therapy room, two contrast therapy rooms, yoga studios and a Pilates studio fitted with Balanced Body equipment, which is closer to a recovery facility than to the treatment-menu spas most city hotels offer. Contrast therapy and red light in particular are things you would normally leave a hotel to find. On the roof there is a pool with an adjoining pool bar overlooking the Orchard district; it is a rooftop pool rather than a billed infinity pool, so temper the photography expectations. The gap is the one guests notice in their rooms: with no bathtubs anywhere, the soaking part of recovery happens in the spa or not at all.

Where is COMO Metropolitan, and how do you get there?

The location is as central as Orchard Road gets. The hotel is at 30 Bideford Road inside the COMO Orchard building, with direct access to the shopping belt and the Takashimaya area opposite, so the malls and food halls are effectively at the door rather than a walk away. That is a real advantage over the Tanglin end hotels, which trade convenience for calm; here the trade runs the other way, and the surroundings are busy rather than leafy. Marina Bay Sands and Gardens by the Bay are about 15 minutes by car, and Changi Airport is about 25 minutes. For a short trip built around shopping, wellness and easy eating, this is the most efficient base in the city. For quiet evenings and greenery it is the wrong end of the scale, and Shangri-La Singapore or a Sentosa resort will suit better. Because the hotel sits within the integrated COMO Orchard building, wet weather barely affects a shopping day.

What do guests consistently say?

Sentiment divides on the room product, not on the wellness. Guests who come for COMO Shambhala, the contrast and red light therapy rooms, the Pilates studio and the rooftop pool tend to leave satisfied, and the Cedric Grolet pastries generate consistent enthusiasm of their own. The complaints cluster tightly: no bathtubs anywhere, entry-level Cairnhill Rooms at 28 to 36 sqm that feel too small, and a fit-out that a meaningful share of guests call sparse and cheap-feeling, with painted sliding wardrobe doors and no rugs cited specifically. Breakfast draws the most consistent criticism, described as a very minimal buffet with a short a la carte menu in an unloved room. Value resistance follows from all of it. The people who love this hotel love the wellness proposition; the people who dislike it wanted a grand hotel. There is very little middle ground in the feedback, which makes this an easy hotel to book correctly provided you are honest about what you actually want.

Honest cons: who should skip it?

Start with the bathtubs, because there are none. Not one room or suite in the hotel has a tub, and every bathroom is walk-in shower only, a strange omission from a wellness-led brand and the single most concrete criticism guests make. Second, entry-level Cairnhill Rooms run 28 to 36 sqm, which is genuinely small, and the fit-out divides opinion sharply: painted sliding wardrobe doors, no rugs and little softness read as sparse and cheap-feeling to a significant minority. Third, breakfast is weak, a very minimal buffet with a short a la carte menu in a room some guests compare to a 1990s warehouse. Fourth, all of that produces value resistance at luxury rates, and some guests also flag the absence of a bidet. The in-house dining offer beyond the patisserie is thin as well, so breakfast is not the only meal that sends you out of the building. The wellness floor and the pastry are excellent; the hotel around them is uneven.