catalogue
1 history
Notoriety and reputation
Three celebrities who have stayed.
Raffles Hotel Gallery
5 external links
history
This hotel was founded by four Armenian brothers. At first, they built a colonial-style building (the main hotel building) with 10 rooms between Beach Road and Bras Basah Road. The hotel will continue to expand in the next few years, including expanding other side buildings, improving the main building and building some recreation rooms and billiards rooms. Now the hotel has gradually taken shape.
The economic panic of 1929 had a great impact on Raffles Hotel, and the hotel finally had to accept bankruptcy protection. The financial crisis finally passed on 1933, and the hotel was finally taken over by a listed company (Raffles Hotel Co., Ltd.).
The hotel survived the Second World War, but it faced many difficulties in the war with Singapore. Including being used as a concentration camp before the end of the war. The new government declared Raffles Hotel a national monument on 1987.
At 1989, the hotel was closed for further renovation and expansion, including the Raffles Hotel promenade. In September 199 16, the hotel reopened and returned to its heyday 19 15.
At present, Raffles Hotel belongs to Raffles International Hotel Group and has hotels in major cities around the world. Raffles Hotels Group also has another brand called Swissotel. Raffles Hotel Group is owned by Raffles Holdings, a subsidiary of Temasek Holdings, and CapitaLand, a subsidiary of Temasek Holdings, also holds a large stake in Raffles Holdings. In 2005, Raffles Hotel Group was sold to American businessman Colonial Capital Co., Ltd., a real estate company located in Los Angeles. In addition to Raffles hotels around the world, it also includes Swiss hotels.
A bad reputation and a good reputation.
Raffles Hotel has two outstanding things:
In earlier years, the hotel was famous for executing wild tigers killed in Singapore. And it is said that this behavior led to the extinction of a small number of tigers in Singapore. By the hotel's own admission, in August of 1902, the underground of the bar recreation room was the place where the death penalty was executed.
Raffles Hotel is the birthplace of Singapore Commander, a specialty of Singapore. 19 10, China bartender Ngiam Tong Boon improved the cocktail Qintangni.
Celebrities who stayed behind
Celebrities who have stayed at Raffles Hotel are:
Joseph Conrad
Rudyard Kipling
William Somerset Maugham
Chaplin
Jean Harlow
No?l Coward
Ava Gardner
Elizabeth Taylor
Michael Jackson
Queen Elizabeth II
Raffles Hotel Gallery
Raffles Hotel has a shopping center in the long corridor, which contains many high-end brands, such as Louis Vuitton and Tiffany. Most restaurants in the hotel are located in the promenade. One of them is ——CYC, the most famous tailor shop in Singapore. There is a Jubilee Hall on the third floor of the hotel, which contains a theater and a museum.