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History-minded city travelers who want Marina Bay, the Civic District, and Raffles Place close at hand will feel well positioned here.

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Sleeping inside Singapore’s former General Post Office gives Doric colonnades and civic history a daily presence beyond a conventional city stay.

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Choose a Marina Bay View Room for its balcony and panoramic bay outlook, extending the waterfront setting beyond the windows.

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Share bed and layout priorities before arrival, because heritage-building rooms within the same category vary in configuration and bed size.

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The Fullerton Hotel Singapore

The Fullerton Hotel Singapore occupies the Fullerton Building at 1 Fullerton Square, where the Singapore River meets the city's waterfront. Its Doric columns and broad neoclassical facade belong to a civic landmark completed in 1928, not a hotel designed to look old. Inside, the building's public scale gives a stay an immediate connection to Singapore's commercial past.

The building once held the General Post Office, the Exchange, the Chamber of Commerce and the Singapore Club. It became a hotel in 2001 and was gazetted as a National Monument in 2015. Those changes are visible in the way historic colonnades and ceremonial spaces now sit beside guest rooms, restaurants and places to pause during a city day.

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Rooms & Suites at The Fullerton Hotel Singapore

Premier Courtyard Room
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Premier Courtyard Room

452 sqft
From 459 USD

The sunlit atrium lobby provides the view from the 42-square-meter Premier Courtyard Room. This is an inward-facing option within The Fullerton Hotel Singapore. Choose the...

Heritage Room
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Heritage Room

409–484 sqft
From 497 USD

Heritage Rooms retain a close link to the Fullerton Building, which once served as Singapore's General Post Office. These rooms measure 38 to 45 square...

Quay River View Room
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Quay River View Room

388–420 sqft
From 591 USD

The Quay River View Room faces the historic Singapore River. It has 36 to 39 square meters of space. Bed options depend on your selected...

Quay Pool View Room
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Quay Pool View Room

388–420 sqft
From 647 USD

A balcony looks across the hotel's infinity pool from the Quay Pool View Room. Singapore's Civic District forms the backdrop. The room ranges from 36...

Marina Bay View Room
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Marina Bay View Room

388–420 sqft
From 694 USD

Marina Bay is the focus of this room, with a balcony opening onto the waterfront view. The Marina Bay View Room measures 36 to 39...

Premier Esplanade Room
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Premier Esplanade Room

570 sqft
From 731 USD

The Premier Esplanade Room is on the hotel's highest floor. It looks towards Marina Bay or the Singapore River. At 53 square meters, it is...

Straits Club Courtyard Room
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Straits Club Courtyard Room

452 sqft
From 750 USD

Straits Club access is included with this Courtyard Room category. The 42-square-meter room faces the sunlit atrium lobby, with a king bed. The room's arrangement...

Straits Club Heritage Room
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Straits Club Heritage Room

398–764 sqft
From 788 USD

Some Straits Club Heritage Rooms have historic cornices and original motifs from the Fullerton Building. The rooms range from 37 to 71 square meters. Views...

Straits Club Quay River View Room
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Straits Club Quay River View Room

388–420 sqft
From 825 USD

The Singapore River view distinguishes the Straits Club Quay River View Room. At 36 to 39 square meters, it includes access to The Straits Club....

 Straits Club Marina Bay View Room
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Straits Club Marina Bay View Room

388–420 sqft
From 844 USD

Panoramic views of Marina Bay accompany Straits Club access in this room category. The Straits Club Marina Bay View Room spans 36 to 39 square...

Premier Collyer Suite
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Premier Collyer Suite

700 sqft
From 872 USD

The Premier Collyer Suite has a separate bedroom and a spacious living room. It measures 65 square meters, with a king bed and a pillow...

Premier Palladian Suite
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Premier Palladian Suite

743–1,001 sqft
From 1’040 USD

Views from the Premier Palladian Suite face the Singapore River or Marina Bay. This one-bedroom suite has 69 to 93 square meters and a king...

Loft Suite
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Loft Suite

1,173 sqft
From 1’322 USD

Spiral stairs lead from the Loft Suite's lower living room to the bedroom above. This duplex has 109 square meters, a king bed and high...

Fullerton Suite
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Fullerton Suite

969 sqft
From 1’957 USD

An outdoor terrace with a sheltered pavilion extends the Fullerton Suite beyond its generous living area. Set on the highest floor, this 90-square-meter suite looks...

Governor Suite
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Governor Suite

1,830 sqft
From 4’463 USD

Wall motifs inspired by the 1920s give the Governor Suite its historic detail. The 170-square-meter suite has a separate king bedroom, a dining room and...

Presidential Suite
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Presidential Suite

3,014 sqft
From 7’208 USD

A private elevator gives discreet access to the Presidential Suite. It measures 280 square meters. The living and dining rooms lead to a glass-enclosed verandah...

Fullerton Square stands at the mouth of the Singapore River, close to the Central Business District and the Marina Bay waterfront. From here, the older riverfront and the newer skyline can be read together. The hotel's own history makes that contrast more than a view: trade and public business once moved through this building before hospitality took its place.

Arriving beneath the columns feels different from entering a contemporary tower. The facade was conceived on a monumental scale, and the former post office gave it a daily role in the city as well as a formal one. A visit can begin with the architecture, then continue along the river without needing to separate sightseeing from the hotel stay.

The Fullerton Heritage precinct extends beyond the hotel to other conserved and newer waterfront sites, including The Fullerton Bay Hotel. They share a setting but not the same building: The Fullerton Hotel is the former civic institution at Fullerton Square. Its sister hotel occupies a separate waterfront address, so the distinction is worth keeping clear when choosing a room.

A Fullerton Monument Tour offers a closer account of the building and the changes it has witnessed. The story reaches from the former postal and commercial functions to Singapore's later growth around the river. Even without a tour, the colonnades and the address give context to a walk through the district before returning for dinner.

The hotel has 400 rooms and suites, but their outlooks are not interchangeable. Premier Courtyard rooms face the atrium; Heritage rooms look toward the city or atrium; Quay rooms face the river. Marina Bay View rooms turn toward the bay. The categories make the building's different sides legible, which matters more than assuming every window frames the waterfront.

The Esplanade Room adds space with a bay or river outlook, while Quay Pool View rooms face the pool rather than the Singapore River. These distinctions help set expectations before arrival. A guest drawn to the monument's interior might prefer the courtyard, while the river and bay categories place the city outside the window in different ways.

Suite choices continue that range. The Palladian Suite has a bay or river view, the Loft Suite a bay view, and the Fullerton Suite a bay or city view. These suites and the named Straits Club rooms have club access, so choosing a category affects more than the outlook. The hotel is large, but its room distinctions remain quite specific.

A Quay Room is listed at 36 to 39 square metres, while the Esplanade Room has 53 square metres. The Loft Suite reaches 109 square metres. Those published sizes give a practical sense of scale beyond the view labels: a larger floor plan can matter as much as the direction of a window during a longer city stay.

Town Restaurant sits by the Singapore River and serves all-day meals and buffet spreads. The waterside position makes it a practical place to begin a day, but the setting also deserves a slower visit. Its view keeps the river present even when the table is the main reason to stop.

The Courtyard is quite different: afternoon tea unfolds in the sunlit atrium. Here the focus turns inward, toward the proportions of the former civic building rather than the waterfront. The space makes a pause between city appointments feel like time inside the monument, not simply a break at a cafe.

Jade gives the hotel a Chinese dining room with a more formal tone and a weekend Yum Cha offer. Together, Town Restaurant, The Courtyard and Jade offer distinct reasons to stay in the building for a meal. The Lighthouse now serves events rather than everyday dining, a useful distinction when planning an evening at the hotel.

The outdoor infinity pool is 25 metres long and overlooks the Singapore River against a backdrop of Doric columns. That pairing of water, historic stone and the modern skyline is unusually specific to this address. A swim or a quiet hour beside the pool can sit between meetings or museum visits without taking the day away from the city.

The Fullerton Spa is on the hotel's mezzanine floor. Its single and couple treatment suites have en suite showers, and separate relaxation lounges offer privacy after an appointment. Treatments and products are co-curated with ESPA. Within this large civic building, the spa offers a smaller, contained space for time away from the waterfront.

Other facilities include a gym, the Straits Club and the Fullerton Heritage Gallery. They give the hotel more than one way to use time indoors, whether a guest has come back from the waterfront or is between appointments. The pool remains the clearest contrast: open to the river view while the hotel's older architecture stands close behind it.

Architect Major P. H. Keys was commissioned to design the building, and its foundations were laid in 1924 before completion in 1928. The long construction and prominent river-mouth site help explain the scale guests encounter at Fullerton Square. It was conceived as a public landmark from the outset, rather than a modest office later enlarged.

The architecture carries details that reward attention. Classical colonnades, porticos and ornament frame a building converted from a public institution to a hotel. A former lighthouse on the roof once guided ships toward Singapore. Those layers explain why the waterfront location mattered long before the present skyline, and why the building is more than a convenient address today.

Conservation work began in 1997. The exterior was restored, while spaces within the colonnades were adapted for the hotel that opened in 2001. That change of use is visible at the entrance from Fullerton Square: a monumental public building now leads to rooms, restaurants and a mezzanine spa rather than postal and commercial offices.

Why we love this hotel

Why we love this hotel

The 25-meter infinity pool overlooks the Singapore River, creating a genuine open-air pause within the dense central business district.

Rare postal artifacts and recorded memories of Singapore pioneers in the heritage gallery make the building’s past accessible without leaving the hotel.

Afternoon tea beneath The Courtyard’s sunlit atrium turns the building’s central volume into an inviting place to pause between sightseeing.

Location of The Fullerton Hotel Singapore

1 Fullerton Square, Singapore 049178

Weather at The Fullerton Hotel Singapore

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