Hotel Review: InterContinental Singapore (Peranakan Shophouse Room)
Introduction Singapore's InterContinental is a fixture of the international business hotel circuit , with the convenient Bugis location and decent facilities a real draw. The city-state is blessed with numerous top-notch places to stay, but the InterConti refurbished its Peranakan (Malay-Chinese) shophouse room s this year. With a spare couple of days in Singapore, I decided to see how these rooms on the historical luxury end of the scale measured up to the modern business traveller 's requirements. Location & Impressions The InterConti is found at 80 Middle Road, smack in the heart of the Bugis district and just under three hundred metres from the Bugis MRT stop . If you're arriving by car or cab (as I did), you'll swing into the impressive courtyard and have your luggage whisked from you by the hotel porters. Check-in was deeply impressive. A hotel staffer met me at the door and escorted me straight up to my room, where a relaxing cup of lavender-scented tea an...