Description / Location

Opened in 1887 and declared a national monument 100 years later, this three-story grande dame has inspired many writers over the years with its colonial charm. Splendidly attired doorstaff welcome leaders of industry, celebrities, and leisure travelers through the hotel's palm-fringed doors into the meticulously restored lobby with marble floors, swirling ceiling fans, wicker chairs, antiques, and memorabilia. Guests have extensive dining options from 14 restaurants and lounges, many with colonial or old-Singapore touches. Recreation facilities include a 20-meter (66-ft) rooftop lap pool and the Amrita Spa, which offers a well-equipped fitness center and a range of health and beauty treatments (surcharge). The Raffles Culinary Academy (surcharge) features cooking and lifestyle classes for guests. A 388-seat, Victorian-style theater (surcharge) hosts corporate events, plays, musicals, and movie showings.

Accommodations

Featuring antique furnishings and hand-woven Oriental carpets, the 103 guest suites have separate parlors, bedrooms, dressing areas, and bathrooms. Modern amenities include high-speed Internet access (surcharge), minibars, CD players, in-room safes, and two satellite TVs with DVD players and VCRs. Large bathrooms have deep marble tubs and separate showers, marble vanities with double sinks, ceiling fans, louvered windows, antique scales, telephones, bathrobes, slippers, and Amrita Spa toiletries. Welcome amenities include Chinese tea and tropical fruit, and complimentary 24-hour valet service is available via a call button.

Restaurants & Bars

Doc Cheng’s - This colonial-style restaurant is a blend of the East and West in both cuisine and decor, with a cool-white ceiling and walls, wicker-backed chairs, and a profusion of plants. A bar serves herbal cocktails.
Raffles Grill - An elegant dining room restored to its early-20th-century glory, with chandeliers, ceiling fans, tall French windows overlooking the Palm Court, crisp linens, and black wrought-iron chairs. Cuisine is a blend of classic and contemporary French.
Empire Café - A casual restaurant modeled after a 1920s Singaporean coffee house, with tiled walls, marble-topped teakwood tables, and polished hard-back chairs. Cuisine emphasizes local favorites, including laksa and Hainan chicken rice.
Royal China at Raffles - An opulently decorated Chinese restaurant with highly varnished floors and walls, arched ceilings, red-and-gold lanterns, and black-lacquer chairs. Signature dishes include lobster noodles, roast suckling pig, and dim sum.
Ah Teng’s Bakery - This small restaurant serves homemade pastries, sandwiches, and cakes. Antique-style tables and chairs and brass fittings give the space a nostalgic feel.
Long Bar Steakhouse - Reminiscent of a 1930s rubber-plantation dwelling, with an intricately tiled floor, white walls, timbered ceiling, collection of antique plates, crisp linens, and carved-back chairs. Cuisine emphasizes steaks and seafood prepared with Asian spices.
Seah Street Deli - A New York-style delicatessen, circa 1950, with music from a jukebox and generously sized sandwiches, entrées, and salads.
Tiffin Room - This elegant dining room continues a tradition of serving a lunch and dinner tiffin curry buffet that began in 1890. Cuisine is Northern Indian, with a thali set served on a platter of ornate silver.
Raffles Courtyard & Gazebo Bar - Offering alfresco dining under swaying palms in a tropical garden, with seafood and other fare prepared Asian-style.

Activities

Palm trees surround the 20-meter (66-ft) outdoor lap pool and two spa tubs on the hotel's rooftop. Inside, a 24-hour fitness center provides treadmills, stationery bicycles, and a universal weight machine.
Joggers can run around the Padang cricket grounds two blocks away, and tennis and squash courts are located within two km (1.25 mi) of the hotel.

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Prices based on 2 adults sharing a Orchestra Gardenview Room on a Bed & Breakfast basis, including internal flights from Barbados to Canouan Island and return transfers to and from the airport. 

Special Offer:
Receive a complimentary guaranteed upgrade from any room type to a One Bedroom Suite and from a One Bedroom Suite to a Two Bedroom Suite.  Confirmed if available at time of booking.

Flight upgrades with Virgin Atlantic:
90 days in advance:  from £200 each way per adult, £140 each way per child
Inside 90 days: from £250 each way per adult, £190 each way per child

Upper Class from £500 per adults each way, £335 per child each way.
(Subject to availability)