Marina Bay Sands

Marina Bay Sands is the only place in Singapore where you can swim the 57th-floor SkyPark infinity pool, and that one fact shapes the whole stay. Towers 1 and 2 completed their room transformation in May 2025, while Tower 3, the lobby and the SkyPark are the live phase. Expect crowds, queues and ongoing works alongside the view.

"Book it for the Safdie architecture and the fifty seventh floor infinity pool, not for calm, because the crowds and the ongoing works are relentless."

Aggregate 9.1/10 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 Marina Bay Sands special?

Nothing else in Singapore looks like it, and nothing else lets you swim at 200 metres. Moshe Safdie's three towers carrying the Sands SkyPark are the defining silhouette of the modern city, and the 57th-floor infinity pool that spans them is open to hotel guests only, which is the single reason most people book. Everything else follows from that. The resort sits directly opposite Gardens by the Bay on Bayfront Avenue, so the Supertrees, the ArtScience Museum, the shops and two Michelin-starred restaurants are inside the complex or a few minutes from it. The hotel is also mid-reinvention, and that has to be said plainly rather than buried. A roughly S$1.75 billion programme has already delivered the fully transformed rooms and suites of Towers 1 and 2, announced complete in May 2025. Tower 3, the hotel lobby and the SkyPark are the current phase, delivered in stages, while a separate S$3.3 billion expansion adds a fourth hotel tower and a 15,000-seat arena with timelines running well beyond 2026. Book it for the view and the address, not for calm.

Which room should you book?

The rooms are being remade tower by tower, so which tower you get matters. On completion of all three towers the hotel will offer 1,850 refurbished rooms including about 770 suites, a deliberate reduction from the original count in favour of larger suites. Towers 1 and 2 were announced complete in May 2025. Tower 3 is part of the live phase alongside the lobby and the SkyPark, so confirm what is finished before you book. Interiors are by Michael Fiebrich Design. Above the standard categories sit five new signature suite types, Horizon, Marina, Skyline, Straits and Sky Sanctuary, on upper floors, some with wellness rooms, private gyms, in-suite spa facilities and butler service, which is the resort's answer to guests who want to avoid the crowds downstairs. Ignore the pre-renovation figure of about 2,560 rooms that still circulates. The honest caveat is that a phased renovation means some noise, closed areas and a hotel that is not uniformly new.

Where should you eat and drink?

Marina Bay Sands has two Michelin-starred restaurants, and both hold one star. CUT by Wolfgang Puck, the steakhouse, won its star in the inaugural 2016 Singapore guide and holds one star in the MICHELIN Guide Singapore 2025, where it is described as the country's only starred steakhouse. Waku Ghin, Tetsuya Wakuda's Japanese contemporary counter, also holds one star in the 2025 guide. Get this right, because plenty of coverage does not: Waku Ghin held two stars from 2017 and now holds one. Never describe it as two-starred. The third headline name, Spago by Wolfgang Puck, sits on the rooftop next to the SkyPark pool and is not starred, so book it for the setting rather than the accolade. Beyond those, the resort runs a long list of further celebrity-chef venues across the complex. The practical warning is queues. Guests report lines to eat and a scale of operation that rewards booking ahead for anything you actually care about.

What is the spa and pool like?

The SkyPark infinity pool is the wellness offer, and it is not restful. It sits roughly 200 metres up on the 57th-floor SkyPark spanning the three towers, it is reserved for hotel guests, and it is the most photographed hotel pool in the world, which tells you exactly what the atmosphere is like. Guests describe constant photo-taking, queues at the edge and noise. The least busy window is roughly 10:30 to 15:00, between check-out and check-in, and that is the single most useful piece of planning advice for this hotel. The SkyPark also falls inside the current renovation phase, so check what is open on your dates. A hotel spa has operated on site historically, but the wellness offer is being reworked as part of the Tower 3 and SkyPark works, so confirm what is running rather than assuming a particular brand or facility.

Where is Marina Bay Sands, and how do you get there?

No hotel in Singapore is better placed for the bay. The address is 10 Bayfront Avenue, directly opposite Gardens by the Bay, which is about 10 minutes on foot, so the Supertree light show is an after-dinner walk rather than an excursion. The Bayfront MRT station serves the complex, which puts Orchard Road within an easy ride, or about 15 minutes by car. Changi Airport is about 20 minutes by car. The waterfront promenade links you around the bay to the Civic District and the Merlion on foot. What you give up is quiet and intimacy. This is an integrated resort with a casino, a mall, a convention centre, a museum and a theatre attached, so the lobby and the walkways carry serious footfall all day, and the ongoing construction of a fourth tower and an arena is part of the picture. Guests who want a neighbourhood rather than a destination should look at the Civic District or Tanglin instead.

What do guests consistently say?

Guest sentiment is unusually consistent: people love the view and complain about the crowds. The infinity pool is both the reason for booking and the loudest source of disappointment, with reviewers describing constant photo-taking, queues at the edge and a scene that is impossible to relax in. Scale is the second theme. There are reports of check-in waits of up to 40 minutes, queues to eat, and crowds to negotiate in the lobby, and service is more often described as efficient than warm. The third theme is a conclusion rather than a complaint. Even positive reviewers decide they are paying for the room, the view, the pool and the address rather than for intimacy or calm, and they say the stay is worth it once on those terms. Add ongoing renovation and expansion works, which mean noise and closed areas for some guests. Nobody who books this hotel with realistic expectations of a busy, spectacular resort comes away surprised, and that is the fairest summary of the feedback.

Honest cons: who should skip it?

The infinity pool is crowded and it is not relaxing, and that is the dominant complaint about this hotel. Guests describe constant photo-taking, queues at the edge and noise, with the quietest window roughly 10:30 to 15:00 between check-out and check-in. Second, the sheer scale produces friction: check-in waits of up to 40 minutes are reported, queues form to eat, and the lobby can take real effort to cross. Service is frequently described as efficient rather than warm. Third, this is a destination resort rather than a retreat, and even favourable reviewers conclude they paid for the room, the view, the pool and the address rather than for calm. Fourth, the renovation is live. Tower 3, the lobby and the SkyPark are still being delivered, and a fourth tower and a 15,000-seat arena are under construction, so expect noise and closed areas and confirm what is open on your dates before you commit to a rate.