Raffles Singapore

Raffles Hotel is a historic luxury hotel at 1 Beach Road in Singapore and the flagship of Raffles Hotels & Resorts, managed by Accor. It has been owned since 2010 by Katara Hospitality, a government-owned company based in Qatar.

The World's 50 Best Hotels, published by William Reed, ranked it No. 5 in its 2025 list.

The Armenian Sarkies brothers opened it on 1 December 1887 with ten rooms, in a former beach house, and named it after Stamford Raffles, the founder of modern Singapore. New wings followed in 1890 and 1894, and a main building designed by Regent Alfred John Bidwell was completed in 1899, making Raffles the first hotel in the region with electric lights. During the Japanese occupation it was renamed Syonan Ryokan, and in 1987, a century after its opening, it was gazetted as a national monument of Singapore.

Sources of this text: Wikipedia · William Reed (50 Best)