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 | Gallery Hotel The: Design and Location
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The Gallery Hotel is a special hotel with emphasis on modern design. Most of the rooms have been designed by different architects/artists, so the (more expensive) rooms can have a very special look. We chose the less expensive category, but the room was nevertheless very modern and well equipped.
We were quite impressed by the service, upon check-in we were accompanied by one of the staff ladies to our room, on the way she explained all the facilities like restaurants, internet access, pool etc. to us.
The "bell boy" also helped us with our flight reconfirmation, we gave him the details and within short we had a message in our room with all the information needed, including check-in time, contact numbers etc.
The location of this hotel is great, it is situated directly at the river at Robertson Quay, it's only 5 to 10 minutes to Clarke Quay and there is a very good choice of restaurants round the corner (which was good for us as we arrived late in the evening and it was raining heavily!).
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| Gallery Hotel The: The Gallery Hotel
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The Gallery Hotel is awesome!!!! Ultra modern and very trendy, and arty too!!! The entrance/foyer is rather small in comparison to many other hotels, but that's no big deal. It's still nice and clean, and the staff are extremely friendly and helpful (both on reception, and the concierge desk too)!
The rooms are of a standard size, but very clean, new, and trendy looking. And the glass doors on the bathrooms are very trendy too. Not an overly exciting view from a standard room, but that's to be expected. The view of the clean, arty room was enough for me!!
All the basics are provided, shavng kit, toothbrush & toothpaste, soaps, shampoo's etc... to a very high standard. Now here's where the good part kicks in...... the breakfast!!!!!!! What can I say?! Extraordinary..... very, VERY tasty breakfast buffet. Among the best I've EVER had. A wide selection of usual foods, eggs (cooked specially to your liking), sausages (the BEST chicken sausages I have EVER tasted), a large variety of differnt types of breads (wholemeal, white, multi grain, rolls, croissants, etc....), hash browns, baked beans.... etc... you name it, they had it! And everything was delicious too!!! Then there were the fresh fruits, cereals, juices, pastries, noodles, yoghurts.... etc.... EVERYTHING!! And it was all of a 5 star standard, along with the exceptional service!!!!
Yes, I know... I did go on about the food..... but it was sensational!!! I will definitely be returning to this hotel on my next visit to Singapore... if not only for the food!!! Yum Yum!!!
And what's unique..... the pool. It's kind of haging over the side of the hotel, and has a glass bottom and sides. So oyu can see down to the street through the pool!!! It's awesome, and extremely unique!!! Well worth the visit!!!!
There is also another lounge type eating area for during the day, and a restaurant located downstairs too (outside), along with an outdoor type bar, patio area which is great at night.... and also it's own nightclub!! Liquid!!!
What else?? It's situated right on the river.... so it's a lovely view outside!! Along with some nice gardens around the back too!!! Oh yeah... and free internet access in the lounge too!!!
This hotel comes highly recommended from me, and I will be staying there on my next visit!! Very happy!!! It may not be in Orchard Road district for shopping.... but within walking distance to the trendy night spot of Clarke Quay!!! Usually went out for dinner there, and walked back to the hotel!!!!
The Gallery Hotel is excellent!!!!!! Theme: HotelPrice: US$40-80 » Currency ConverterComparison: about averagePhone: 68498686Directions: On the Singapore river!!!
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| Gallery Hotel The: Stay AWAY!
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We booked this hotel at asiarooms.com, and it's a decision we will regret for a while. We decided to book The Glazzhaus, which is a step above the standard. Looking forward to staying at a hotel as 'funky' as the gallery, we found that although the lobby is spankingly clean and funkily designed, one only needed to get to the rooms. Peeling, dirty and musty-smelling carpets in the corridors, wall paint peeling off, newpaper racks hanging off hooks on their last threads. But these are only the sights during the walk to one's room. The concierge (or whoever, seemed to us like he was a multi-tasking employee with various job-profiles including waiting on tables...) opens the door...uh...barely missing the corner of our queen-size bed. So pulling luggage in -somehow- we are looking for place to put it on....but there is none! Walking around the bed while the door is open was a bit if a juggling experience, for starters. As you can imagine, everything was cramped, and the bathroom, tiled 'stylishly' in gray -or was it black?- lacks any character, as does the room. The curtains are stained, the woodwork is coming away in layers, the room smells musty and totally lacking ventilation, and oh...I could go on. (I think the only openable vents were in the bathroom!)
The breakfast is lack-lustre (you'd do much better getting out and heading for any of the road-side stalls that offer a delectable variety of foods for any time of day), and the much harped-about swimming pool with glass walls is...err...only transparent from the walls. the water itself is a grimy green. ewww.
DO NOT believe ANY of the good comments out on the internet, please. The Gallery Hotel needs a HUGE overhaul, and the place, honestly, has a lot of potential. Just NOT in the state it is in, now. I can't deny that it has elements of it's chic-'ness' from the days gone by (you can tell by the design concept still maintained in the restaurant on the first floor and in the lobby), but it's gone now. Need I say more.
This is what the hotel thinks about itself....the stuff we got sold on:
The Gallery Hotel, right beside the Singapore river on Robertson Quay, you will find Singapore's first and only "beyond the ordinary" hotel, The Gallery. The unconventional, exciting architectural design of the building at Robertson Quay has created much interests from the general public. For example, the pool is a cantilevered lap pool with its bottom partially exposed, situated at the top of the building with three sides of glass wall. The swimming pool, a sky oasis is evocative of serenity and calmness amidst the lush greeneries. Window frames on some parts of the hotel are in vivid colours and at night the innovative lighting accentuates the structure. Theme: HotelPrice: US$80-120 » Currency ConverterComparison: about averagePhone: 68498686Directions: Close enough to Clark Quay -home to a long string of pretty nice restaurants and a reverse bungee area at one end of this loooong line of restaurants, although how the two match, I have no clue!
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