Singapore Hotels
Hotels in the the city of Singapore are often required for tourists who require short term accommodation. Some tourists may want to stay at a large or small hotels. Some may want to stay at cheap or luxury hotels. Some tourists may want to stay at hotels that have good access to tourist attractions. Some tourists may want to stay at a hotel that has good parking facilities. Some tourists may want to stay at hotels in the city or near the city. Some may want to stay at hotels that are well known.
Many tourists may want to stay at hotels that have a good reputation. Some may want to stay at hotels that have good access to culture, and to entertainment, and sports. Some may want to stay at hotels that have a good history and are well known. Some may want to stay at hotels that are close to tourist attractions.
Singapore is an island microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands. Singapore is one of the true city states in the world. It is the smallest nation in Southeast Asia.
Prior to European settlement, the island now known as Singapore was the site of a Malay fishing village at the mouth of the Singapore River. Several hundred indigenous Orang Laut people also lived along the nearby coast, rivers and on smaller islands. In 1819 the British East India Company established a trading post on the island, which was used thereafter as a strategic trading post along the spice route. Singapore would become one of the most important commercial and military centres of the British Empire, and the hub of British power in Southeast Asia. The city was occupied by the Japanese during World War II, which Winston Churchill called "Britain's greatest defeat". Singapore reverted to British rule immediately postwar, in 1945. Eighteen years later the city, having achieved independence from Britain, merged with Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak to form Malaysia. However, less than two years later it seceded from the federation and became an independent republic on 9 August 1965. Singapore joined the United Nations on 21 September that same year. It is also a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
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On 29 January 1819, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles landed on the main island. Spotting its potential as a strategic geographical trading post in Southeast Asia, Raffles signed a treaty with Sultan Hussein Shah on behalf of the British East India Company on 6 February 1819 to develop the southern part of Singapore as a British trading post and settlement. Until August 1824, Singapore was still a territory controlled by a Malay Ruler. Singapore only officially became a British colony in August 1824 when the British extended control over the whole island. John Crawfurd, the second resident of Singapore, was the one who made Singapore a British possession. He signed a treaty with Sultan Hussein Shah on 2 August 1824 in which the Sultan and the Temmenggong handed over the whole island to the British East India Company thus marking the start of the island's modern era. Raffles's deputy, William Farquhar, oversaw a period of growth and ethnic migration, which was largely spurred by a no-restriction immigration policy. The British India office governed the island from 1858, but Singapore was made a British crown colony in 1867, answerable directly to the Crown. By 1869, 100,000 lived on the island.
The early onset of town planning in colonial Singapore came largely through a "divide and rule" framework where the different ethnic groups were settled in different parts of the South of the island. The Singapore River was largely a commercial area that was dominated by traders and bankers of various ethnic groups with mostly Chinese and Indian coolies working to load and unload goods from barge boats known locally as "bumboats". The Malays, consisting of the local "Orang Lauts" who worked mostly as fishermen and seafarers, and Arab traders and scholars were mostly found in the South-east part of the river mouth, where Kampong Glam stands today. The European settlers, who were few then, settled around Fort Canning Hill and further upstream from the Singapore River. Like the Europeans, the early Indian migrants also settled more inland of the Singapore River, where Little India stands today. Very little is known about the rural private settlements in those times (known as kampongs), other than the major move by the post-independent Singapore government to re-settle these residents in the late 1960s.
The Fullerton Hotel Singapore hotel located near the mouth of the Singapore River, in the Downtown Core of Central Area, Singapore. It was originally known as The Fullerton Building, and also as the General Post Office Building. The address is 1 Fullerton Square.
The Rendezvous Hotel Singapore is a hotel located on Bras Basah Road in the Museum Planning Area of Singapore, across from Singapore Management University (SMU). It is part of a chain of Rendezvous Hotels. It is located on the historic site of the Hock Lock Kee Restaurant, which is still located in the hotel complex.
Hotels in Singapore include or have inclouded ; Conrad Centennial Singapore, Damenlou Hotel, Fairmont Singapore, Gallery Hotel, Goodwood Park Hotel, Hilton Singapore, Mandarin Oriental Singapore, Marina Bay Sands, Marina Mandarin Singapore, Meritus Mandarin Singapore, New Majestic Hotel, Novotel Clarke Quay Singapore, Raffles Hotel, Rendezvous Hotel Singapore, Resorts World at Sentosa,, Shangri-La Hotel Singapore, South Beach, Singapore, Swissôtel The Stamford, The Fullerton Hotel Singapore, The New 7th Storey Hotel, The Pan Pacific Singapore, The Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore, The Scarlet Hotel
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