Royal & Queens
by Cathy&Gary about Royal & Queens
We booked a 5 night stopover through the Singapore airlines site and stayed at the Royal & Queens, the 5 nights cost us just over $600 and with all the bonuses thrown in it was definitely worth it.
We had free transfers, 50% off meals at the hotel, free entry to Jurong Bird Park plus loads of other freebies we did not use.
The hotel is in a great location and we were upgraded to a deluxe room with very comfortable beds in the renovated wing on the 16th floor.
The TV was huge with a DVD player; there was an iron and ironing board, a safe big enough to hold our laptop and great views.
This hotel use to be the rear tower of the adjoining Allson hotel and the hotels are still connected on the 1st floor, so you can also exit through the Allson.
Royal @ Queens is only a 5 minute walk to Bugis Street, 3 min walk to Chijmes, 5 min walk to Raffles Hotel and 15 min walk to Douby Ghout mrt or the top of Orchard Rd.
On our second day we walked to Little India and this took us about 20 minutes.
The hotel's restaurant Queen's Brasserie is on Level 1, the buffet breakfast was included free but was nothing special.
There is also a small swimming pool.
The location of Royal @ Queen's is excellent, the price was good, there are restaurants, food courts and MRT stations close by so we would stay here again.
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Have you been to any of these hotels recently? Looking for comments/ photos.
by LAOWAI
Hi there:
We are a large group going to Singapore for 3 days and I am looking at some relatively 'cheap' three star options in the center. And one possible 4-star. Would appreciate any recent information / photos you might have of these three- or any other suggestions you might have:
Thanks!
Peninsula.Excelsior Hotel
5 Coleman Street
Singapore 179805
Tel: (65) 6337 2200
Fax: (65) 6339 3847
Golden Landmark Hotel
390 Victoria Street
Singapore 188061
(65) 6297 2828
(65) 6298 2038
Hotel Royal @ Queens
12 Queen Street Singapore 188553
Republic of Singapore
Main Tel: +65 6725 9988
Main Fax: +65 6725 9966
Re: Have you been to any of these hotels recently? Looking for comments/ photos.
by xuessium
HI!
First & foremost, I have not stayed in any of the 3 hotels you mentioned.
Location-wise, all 3 hotels aren't half bad.
Peninsula-Excelsior is an old hotel but its location in the centre of the city means an easy base to get around Singapore since City Hall MRT is just a less than 5 minutes walk away.
Golden Landmark is next to Arab Street and is again, another old hotel. The Hotel Royal @ Queens is tucked away along a quiet street and is very near the Singapore Arts Museum. Bugis MRT is the nearest subway station for both....and it's just minutes of walk away.
Re: Have you been to any of these hotels recently? Looking for comments/ photos.
by redken
Go for the Peninsula Hotel...
Re: Have you been to any of these hotels recently? Looking for comments/ photos.
by ellielou
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Re: Have you been to any of these hotels recently? Looking for comments/ photos.
by urbanmale_tods
The best of the 3 would be Peninsula Excelsior. Good location with lots of shopping nearby ie Funan IT Mall , 5 min from City Hall MRT. Small and dull lobby, old exterior.
Hotel Royal & Golden Landmark are also old and are far from the main shopping district.
Where to stay
by Thorkenya
Visiting Singapore for the 1st time. We will be there for 2 nights.
Need recommendations from the following :
1. Allson
2. Copthorne Orchid
3. Furama Riverfront
4. Hotel Royal
5. Peninsular Excelsior
6. Hotel royal @ Queens
we would like to experience the city and its shopping and then take in as much of night life as possible on the river front.
Thanks,
Re: Where to stay
by imstress
Peninsular Exelsior has the best location.
Walking distance to Esplanade, City Link Shopping Mall, CHIJMES, Clarke Quay, Boat Quay.
Re: Where to stay
by DarkRay
Of those you have listed, Peninsula Excelsior definitely has the best location, as imstress had mentioned, since it is within a 10 minutes walk from City Hall MRT Interchange. It is also within reasonable walking distance to Boat Quay and Clarke Quay, the main areas for night life on the river front in Singapore.
My recommendation though is Allson, which is somewhat nearby. It is straddled between City Hall MRT Interchange (15-20 minutes walk away) and Bugis MRT Station (10-15 minutes walk away).
The main reason is that you lose only a little in location convenience (in terms of being centrally located), but you gain a nicer room at possibly a lower price. While both hotels have been refurbished this decade, it was a strictly exterior and lounge only affair at Peninsula Excelsior. I used to recommend visitors to request for rooms in the Peninsula Wing and avoid those in the Excelsior Wing, but the state of the rooms in Peninsula Wing has become a little too musty for comfort, and I hate that the smell of stale tobacco seemed to always linger around in their entire compound, except for their new piano lounge.
For Allson, the rooms are still old, but much better maintained in my opinion. You gain some convenience as well as there is a 7-Eleven right next to the hotel and an excellent open-air foodcourt on the other side, serving some very good and affordable local fare.
Bugis Junction, one of the more interesting (in terms of tenant mix and architecture layout) malls in Singapore is also only a 5-7 minutes walk away, as well as Bugis Village, the largest street shopping destination in Singapore.
Just my 2 cents.... :-)
Re: Where to stay
by Thorkenya
Thanks to both of you.
What's your opinion of Furama Riverfront ?
Re: Where to stay
by DarkRay
Furama Riverfront, previously known as Novotel Apollo, is quite good and has pretty nice and new looking rooms - probably the newest and best maintained of the bunch you had mentioned.
But I do not like its inconvenient location at all - it's not close to anything at all despite it being still in the city. They do provide a courtesy shuttle to Orchard and Chinatown, but its frequency is not that great. All the hotels in the Havelock area that Furama Riverfront resides in typically cater to package tourist.
Just my 2 cents.... :-)
Re: Where to stay
by Thorkenya
Thanks for excellent advice
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