Singapore

The Standard, Singapore

Price per night from$248.50

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (SGD336.32), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

Style

Urban block party

Setting

North of Orchard Road

There’s a sociable, members’ club feel to new arrival The Standard, Singapore, which sits in a coveted spot between Orchard Road and the Botanic Gardens. It brings the Standard group’s trademark design flair with plant-dotted, retro-chic interiors and pairs them with a convivial café-bar and izakaya-inspired dining. A two-storey garden and place-to-be pool bolster its appeal as a bolthole where you’ll want to hang out.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

143, including nine suites.

Check–Out

11am; check-in, 3pm. Both are flexible, subject to availability.

More details

Rates are room-only but you can buy a buffet breakfast with a selection of hot dishes from SG$40 a head (SG$20 a child, aged six to 11).

Also

The Standard, Singapore has four Cozy Single Pool View Rooms that are suitable for wheelchair users with adapted bathrooms, lowered switches, braille signage and alarms, as well as elevator access to all floors.

At the hotel

Gardens and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: smart TV, Bluetooth speaker, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, minibar, free glass-bottled water, hairdryer, bathrobes, slippers and Davines bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Room sizes at The Standard, Singapore are uniform, with categories differentiated by view or bed set-up until you get to the Junior Suite Pool View: with slightly more lounge space, this is our pick. All rooms have polished retro-modern decor with bamboo panelling, flashes of colour and the most comfortable of beds dressed in 300-thread-count linen. The Standard Suite Pool View has a separate bedroom and extra living space, which can take an extra bed, and the Suite Spot Pool View is your top-billed, two-bedroom option.

Poolside

Sure, you can leave the shelter of your parasol-shaded lounger for a cooling dip, but the pool at The Standard, Singapore lends itself to all kinds of decadent downtime, none of which needs to be athletic: fine-tune yours with cocktails and light bites, and — as the sun retreats — guest DJ sets. The pool is open for swims from 6am until 10pm daily, with bar service between 11am and 9pm.

Packing tips

Look to flowing vintage threads and statement botanical prints to channel the Seventies nostalgia of your stylishly retro basecamp.

Also

Brighten your Monday evening with Social Hour — a weekly prompt for cocktails and mingling in the finest Standard hotels tradition.

Children

Little Smiths up to age 11 are charged as children; under-sixes get breakfast for free (other meals are charged), and kids are allowed at the pool under adult supervision. Extra beds can be added to some rooms from SGD60 a night.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Stools counterside at Kaya Bar, or anything involving the Seventies-styled leather banquettes for dinner at Kaya. Sunlit tables nearest the over-sized windows are our pick at Café Standard by day.

Dress Code

City-break casual is fine at either spot by day; but to add to the sense of occasion with dinner at Kaya, it’s worth injecting a little sartorial glamour into proceedings.

Hotel restaurant

Kaya at the Standard weaves Singaporean seafood and regionally sourced ingredients into its local take on Japanese izakaya dining. And although polished plates of maki rolls, nigiri and robatayaki are pretty enough to go straight to your socials, Kaya’s setting in a bamboo-hued dining room — festooned with greenery, tropical motifs and caramel-leather upholstery — is also welcome eye candy. We’re raising a toast to its impressive selection of whiskies and sakes, too. All-day casual eatery Café Standard is the hotel’s American dining spot with more of a buzzy, neighbourhood feel thanks to its street-facing position: it serves comfort-food classics and a fine line in coffee by day before switching into a lively spot for drinks before and/or after dinner.

Hotel bar

Classic cocktails and pan-American bites such as tacos and ceviches can be whisked to your poolside lounger or garden-gazing tables and chairs at The Pool. Kaya Bar is a natural pitstop on the way to dinner for aperitivi, or opt for pre-dinner cocktails at Café Standard — which is also your go-to for dreamy nightcaps. 

Last orders

Breakfast is served at both dining spots between 6.30am and 10.30am. All-day Café Standard moves to the lunch menu at 10.30am and dinner is served between 5pm and 11pm. Kaya is open for lunch from noon until 3pm; for dinner, it’s 6pm until 10.30pm.

Room service

You can order from a dedicated menu from 6.30am daily; last orders are taken at 10.30pm.

Location

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Address
The Standard, Singapore
12 Orange Grove Road
Singapore
258353
Singapore

In central Singapore, just north of Orchard, The Standard, Singapore is on Orange Grove Road.

Planes

Singapore’s Changi Airport is 25 minutes by road from the hotel, and private transfers can be arranged at extra cost.

Trains

For getting around the city, Singapore has an efficient light-rail system, the MRT: Orchard and Stevens are your nearest stops, each a 15-minute walk from the hotel.

Automobiles

You’re unlikely to need a car of your own in Singapore, when taxis and public transport serve just as well, but if you’re bringing your own wheels, the hotel has a free private carpark, available on a first come, first served basis.

Worth getting out of bed for

Orchard Road’s malls and boutiques are easily reached from your Orange Grove Road basecamp. Let The Standard, Singapore’s plant-dotted interiors inspire a trip to the nearby Botanic Gardens, which is a Unesco-listed expanse of prized flora, from forest glades to wetlands to the country’s national orchid collection; an on-site heritage museum sets out the Gardens’ long and storied past. Or you can explore botany at altitude with a foray to Gardens by the Bay. Further afield, Dempsey Hill is a gentrified neighbourhood of colonial architecture with a strong café game, and is home to the ‘gelatopia’ that is the Museum of Ice Cream

Local restaurants

Singaporean street food and recommended satay are on the menu at Lau Pa Sat: this popular hawker market is set in a heritage building that’s the architectural love-child of a Victorian railway station and a Buddhist temple. If your satay leaves you hooked on hawker stalls, try Maxwell Food Centre (Tian Tian Hainanese chicken rice is the stall to target), or Chinatown Complex.  

Jumbo Seafood has dining spots across the city and is acclaimed for its chilli crab: try the Dempsey Hill eatery to explore a different neighbourhood, or there’s another on Orchard Boulevard, a 10-minute drive away.

Local cafés

Sample a trad Singaporean breakfast of kaya toast and soft-boiled eggs at Ya Kun Kaya Toast. Bean devotees will want to assess the meticulously crafted brews at Nylon Coffee Roasters

Reviews

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Anonymous review

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this city-central hotel near the Botanic Gardens and unpacked their batik silks and designer buys, a full account of their Southeast Asian break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside The Standard, Singapore…

Singapore’s fascination with green spaces and high design is becoming a defining trait for the city in modern times. Its Botanic Gardens need little introduction and its penchant for tropical expanses and pools set at skyline heights has driven feats of architecture across the city. Set to join their ranks is The Standard, Singapore, which incorporates a ‘duplex’ interior garden into its gleaming, eight-storey block. 

The Garden is the setting for the hotel’s beach-club-esque pool, where beats and bar service encourage sociable downtime as well as dips. Plant-dotted, light-filled rooms, styled with retro flair, neutral hues and the Standard’s trademark bright bathrooms soften this urban retreat’s contemporary edge. And a choice of dining spots — courtesy of a buzzing café-bar and glossier izakaya-inspired eatery — is set to secure its credentials as a well-rounded destination hotel. A covetable locale, between Orchard Road’s shopping sprawl and the Botanic Gardens, only enhances its kerb appeal, too. 

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Price per night from $248.50