Detailed Review
Built in 1928, the Fullerton Building was transformed into a luxury hotel in 2001. Capturing the personality of a heritage hotel, The Fullerton Hotel Singapore is ideally situated in the centre of the bustling financial district in Singapore. Yet, it surrounds its guests with a surprisingly refreshing ambiance of peace and tranquillity.
Extreme luxury resides in every detail at The Fullerton Hotel Singapore. From the soft vanilla coloured walls to freshly pressed sheets, the stylishly chic accommodations offer the traveller a fresh and contemporary decor that exudes a sense of warmth and comfort.
State-of-the-art features and broadband connectivity provide guests with high-speed internet access. Slick, streamlined outfittings grace the bathrooms, which are accessorised with Fullerton Fundamentals, a range of bathroom amenities customised for the discerning traveller.
Press Quotes
"Swish five-star in a grand, neo-classical building." Telegraph 07
“Doric columns, breezy terraces and grand riverside setting.” Independent 07
"Former British colonial post office converted into an Old World-style hotel." Travel + Leisure 04
Independent Reviews
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"Central to museums, riverside café’s and the CBD, The Fullerton is a classy address in Singapore"
The Fullerton
By Caroline Major
Doric columns, coffered ceilings, deep cornices and soaring ceilings are hallmarks of colonial piles through the Commonwealth. It is this timeless style which has transformed the Singapores original General Post Office into one of the classiest hotels in the city. The Fullerton is central and its sexy, and its crowded with Singaporean Sophisticates taking lunch in the atrium or cocktails in the bar. In the evening, everyone steps out for Italian in San Marco at the Lighthouse on the very tippy top of this landmark building.
Originally built to celebrate the Singaporean centenary, the Fullerton was converted from official offices to hotel in 2001. Its fortuitous positioning at the mouth of the Singapore River lends a harbour view to the front and a river view to the side. Culturally, she sits between the city to the south and the arts and entertainment district to the north. If you dont fancy staying in for the evening its a hop, skip and a jump over to the impressive Asian Civilisations Museum at Empress Place, the Victoria Theatre and Concert hall or over to the throngs of restaurants and bars at Clarke Quay. At any time during the day and night the place buzzes with busy-ness.
The rooms:
Champagne is de rigueur at the Fullerton; in the Straits Club reserved for guests paying executive club rates, it free flows from the Veuve bottle most of the day and is the drink of choice for most of the ladies in the Post Bar. It makes sense then that the colour of the walls in the rooms are described as champagne. Think lots of nudes with golden glows and shades of nut. The neutral dcor is the backdrop for stylish rooms that are none too ostentatious nor minimally pretentious. In fact they are perfectly comfortable and cosy and will leave neither the business nor leisure traveller wanting for more.
Without a doubt, though, it is the windows that put the Fullerton into her unique position: they are big, unobstructed and sporting killer views. Given this old grand dame of a building was built before skyscrapers and on the river bank, the views are not only unhindered but the rooms are not so high in the sky as to look onto the unsightly rooftops of her neighbours. The windows of this hotel then are windows onto the mouth of the bustling Singapore River which at sundown bathes the already tonally warm rooms in a golden glow which just begs you to slip on some sexy heels and slide out into the Singapore night.
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