Royal Peacock Hotel in Singapore

Hotel Reports

• Exterior - The hotel occupies a row of ten beautifully restored shop-houses (the business was conducted downstairs and the family resided upstairs). To preserve its authentic ambience, each shop-house has been artistically restored to its original condition, from the architecture and design to the timber ceilings.
• General - As part of its masterplan for the redevelopment of Chinatown, Singapore as recommended the contruction of a number of boutique hotels and the Royal Peacock is not meant to function like a typical hotel. They are "quinessentially modernist spaces, innovations of a modern tourism industry, to give the visitor an experience of "Old Chinatown".AC 7/2002
• Lobby - The small lobby is functional with a little cafe style seating seats to the left and a counter facing the door. This is typical of one unit of the shop of yesteryear with timber ceiling, shutters and louvered doors.
• Location - Located in the quaint Chinatown district of Keong Siak and surrounded by coffee shops and building that date back to pre-World War II. The area bustles with local nightlife and is walking distance to heart of Chinatown which is a tourist attraction in itself.
• Restaurant - There is only one outlet which is the cafe next to the lobby which serves local and western dishes. Open from 7am to 12 midnight.
• Rooms - Unique touches include a sleigh bed and an antique gilt-framed mirror, as well as plush purple carpets red walls, rich floral fabrics reminiscent of a Baroque painting and red curtains with tassels. Bathrooms are showers only.