Come end 2017, Singapore’s iconic Raffles Hotel will shut for several months for restoration works. It has been 25 years since the grand dame got its last makeover.
Works on the 129-year-old hotel will begin in in January 2017 with the shopping arcade. The restoration programme will be done in three phases. During the first two phases, the hotel will still remain open. At the final phase towards the end of 2017, Raffles Hotel will shut its doors temporarily before a grand reopening in the second quarter of 2018.
“This restoration is designed to ensure that we retain what is so special about Raffles Hotel Singapore – the ambiance, the service, the charm and the heritage of the hotel,” said Simon Hirst, General Manager, Raffles Hotel Singapore in a press statement.
Declared a national monument in 1987, Raffles Hotel is one of the few remaining 19th century hotels in the world. It counts world leaders, celebrities and even literary icon Rudyard Kipling as some of its past guests.
