The Diary of a Hotel Addict
Raffles Singapore: Aerial View
© yohanes.budiyanto, 2014
Aeriel view of the ever expanding downtown Singapore and the historic Raffles Hotel in its low-rise garden setting, circa 1887. Shown in the centre is the three storey Main Building, which upon its opening in 1899 officially made the Raffles a grand hotel, from its more humbler beginning as a row of bungalows of only 10 bedrooms facing the Beach Road.
Shown on the bottom right is the landmark Bar and Billiard Room, circa 1896, which is famous for its legendary tale of how the last tiger in Singapore were found and shot dead after fleeing a circus and hide below the earlier structure that was elevated from the street in 1902.
Raffles Singapore: Aerial View
© yohanes.budiyanto, 2014
Aeriel view of the ever expanding downtown Singapore and the historic Raffles Hotel in its low-rise garden setting, circa 1887. Shown in the centre is the three storey Main Building, which upon its opening in 1899 officially made the Raffles a grand hotel, from its more humbler beginning as a row of bungalows of only 10 bedrooms facing the Beach Road.
Shown on the bottom right is the landmark Bar and Billiard Room, circa 1896, which is famous for its legendary tale of how the last tiger in Singapore were found and shot dead after fleeing a circus and hide below the earlier structure that was elevated from the street in 1902.