PhilKennedy
Google
This is a very smart hotel and feels like it ought to be more expensive than it is. (Maybe October isn’t peak season?) There are luxury materials everywhere you look: marble and glossy veneers. The lifts are fast. The views from the higher floors have you glued to the windows.||There’s almost too much choice at breakfast - all good quality - and the three top floor restaurants give a choice of classy dinners with more great views, especially at night. I had a particularly memorable feast in Toh Lim. I enjoyed the ground floor bar too, although it was never busy while I was there.||Staff seem to be everywhere and going out of their way to offer help. At one point I had three people trying to help me book the airport bus. It’s not a place where you ever need to hunt or wait for help.||The location wasn’t near many of the sights I visited, but it is central and well connected. I got around cheaply and easily by bus and metro.||Its only fault is the experience of arriving as a pedestrian. Come by car and you have two grand driveways to choose from. A pedestrian has what looks like a subway entrance at the side of the Lotte department store or a labyrinthine detour through the store’s basement past a string of luxury shops. There’s plenty of space for a welcoming pedestrian entrance, but someone gave complete priority to cars.