Declared a National Monument in 1987, the hotel has grown from strength to strength. With its restoration and reopening in 1991, Raffles Hotel today stands as a jewel in the crown of Singapore's hospitality industry, renowned and loved for its inimitable style and unsurpassed excellence in service and facilities.
In multicultural Singapore it is not surprising that the visionary founders of Raffles Hotel were a quartet of enterprising Armenian brothers: Martin, Tigran, Aviet and Arshak Sarkies.
Raffles Hotel opened in 1887 in a rather sombre-looking old bungalow known as the Beach House. It was named after Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of modern Singapore. Tropical suites and sola topis were as much a part of Raffles Hotel's early style as bentwood tables and rattan chairs. Over the years the hotel has evolved into one of the world's most beloved grand hotels and welcomed innumerable celebrities, writers and royalty.
‘Voted a top five best Singapore hotel’, TripAdvisor Traveler Awards, 2012
'Top 500 World's Best Hotels' for the fifth consecutive year and ‘Best Heritage Hotel’, World's Best Awards,Travel + Leisure, 2012
‘Top 125 Hotel in Asia’ in the Readers’ Choice Award, Condé Nast Traveler, 2011
'Best Luxury Hotel' for the ninth consecutive year, Annual TTG Travel Awards, 2011
'Condé Nast Traveler Gold List', Condé Nast Traveler, 1995 - 2011
'Best Hotel in Asia/Australia' for the fourth consecutive year, The Daily Telegraph's UltraTravel Awards, 2010
'Best Hotels And Resorts', DestinAsian Readers' Choice Awards, 2008
'Best Hotel- International Awards', Singapore Tatler, 2008
'Luxury Hotels:The World's Ultimate City Escapes', Robb's Report, 2008
‘Best Boutique Hotel in Asia-Pacific’, Business Traveller Asia-Pacific Magazine (HK), 2007
'Ultimate Address for the Luxury Traveller', Robb Report Luxury Hotels, 2006