Singapore, Singapore · Five-Star · ★★★★★
The Fullerton Hotel Singapore
Old GPO building, Palladian columns, the river under your window.
Old GPO building, Palladian columns, the river under your window.
"The 1928 General Post Office building, gazetted as Singapore's 71st National Monument, restored and reopened as a 400-room luxury hotel in 2001. The Doric-and-Corinthian column lobby, the Palladian arched windows, the original Post Office clock — every architectural detail of pre-war civic Singapore is preserved."
The Fullerton Hotel Singapore opened on 1 January 2001 inside the original Fullerton Building — a Doric-columned, Palladian-windowed 1928 piece of civic architecture that served, until 1996, as Singapore's General Post Office. The structure, designed by the Major Engineers (a Singapore-Malaya colonial architectural practice) for the British Crown, is gazetted as Singapore's 71st National Monument; the conversion to a luxury hotel was the most ambitious adaptive-reuse hospitality project ever undertaken in the city. Twenty-five years later, the property still operates as much as a piece of preserved civic history as a five-star.
There are 400 rooms across categories that begin with the Courtyard (35 sqm, facing the central courtyard) and run up to the Quay categories (45 sqm, facing the Singapore River) and the suite tiers. The Heritage Suites — six only, on the 8th floor — are individually decorated with original 1928 Post Office artefacts. The Presidential Suite, at 320 square metres, has its own private terrace facing the Marina Bay skyline. Every room is finished in the property's signature palette — preserved Italian-marble floors, hand-restored Chinese antique furniture, and the original 1928 brass door fittings — calibrated to a five-star modern guest experience inside an unaltered National Monument shell.
The Town Restaurant, in the original Post Office's main banking hall on the lobby level, serves a deliberately precise European-Asian buffet under a Doric colonnade and a ceiling 16 metres high. Jade, the resort's Cantonese fine-dining room, holds a regular Michelin-guide nod and is the most-considered Cantonese in the Civic District. The Lighthouse, on the rooftop, was the site of the original 1928 Fullerton Lighthouse — Singapore's main shipping signal beacon — and serves contemporary Italian with the Marina Bay Sands skyline at table-height. The Post Bar, on the lobby level, is set inside the original 1928 Post Office's main hall and runs the city's most heritage-considered cocktail programme.
The Fullerton's distinguishing quality, in 2026, is the deliberate civic continuity. The original 1928 Post Office clock still functions on the building's facade. The Palladian arched windows in the corridors are the original glass. The brass elevator buttons in the lobby are the originals from 1928. For a Singapore arrival that wants the city's heritage made manifest, a milestone Civic District anniversary, or a serious business stay where the Marina Bay financial district is six minutes' walk and the heritage matters as much as the meeting, this is the considered first-call address.
Raffles Place MRT (the city's main financial-district station) is four minutes' walk; the Marina Bay Financial Centre is six. The Straits Club lounge runs separate executive breakfast, all-day refreshments, and 18:00 cocktails. The Heritage Suites have private dining rooms convertible to 8-seat boardrooms.
A Heritage Suite (six only, on the 8th floor) or, for a milestone, the Presidential Suite. Brief the in-suite team 96 hours ahead — they will arrange a private Lighthouse rooftop dinner, the original 1928 Post Office vault opened for a Champagne reception, and a closing Post Bar nightcap.
The Quay Premier room facing the Singapore River, dinner at Jade, and a closing Lighthouse rooftop cocktail with the Marina Bay Sands light show is the considered Fullerton honeymoon night. Pair with three nights at Capella Singapore on Sentosa for a Singapore-only honeymoon week.
Rates checked May 2026. Price varies by date and view.
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