Fragrance Hotel-Selegie - Singapore, Singapore 

Rooms too small
Posted: Thu, Jun 26 2008
I don't like to be a negative person, but I have to say this and warn others about this 'hotel'. The rooms are far far far too small. Our room had NO window and could only fit a small double bed in it, with no room to place our bags or walk around the bed. It felt like a prison cell. The bed was basically a hard foam slab - and it has a vinyl cover over it. It was extremely uncomfortable and we had two nights of horrible sleep. The room was exceptionally noisy with the sound of water flushing around. The corridors are very noisy and the cleaners kept insisting on shouting and dragging equipment around at 10-11pm. Why so late? On the positive side, the location of the property is excellent, is very clean and tidy, the staff are very friendly and oblivious to their guests pain. The combined TV/DVD player is a nice touch - but only if you've got DVD's to play. The range of TV channels is like 5 channels, mostly in asian languages and with terrible reception. We booked on Wotif and paid SGP$171 per night for a 'superior room' which was cheaper than the rack rate. For this price, this property has no right to call itself a Hotel. The room size will leave you feeling ripped off, tired and grumpy. We hated our stay in Singapore because of our experience here. If the owners would only just halve the number of rooms and double their size then they'd have a terrific hotel, rather than the upmarket prison cells they currently have.

Great Location, small room
Posted: Sat, Jun 21 2008
Location-wise this hotel was perfect, walking distance from Orchard Road, Little India, MRT. From Changi Airport to the hotel the taxi journey was about forty minutes long, the cost of the ride was very cheap in comparison to the UK. The staff were always friendly towards me and would always go out of the way to tell me how to get to various places such as Sentosa, Bugis street market etc. As part of my one week stay at this hotel american breakfast was included, the breakfast was good. I didn't use the swimming pool or internet access in the lobby. The room was fairly small, adequate for a single traveller. The bathroom was very small but kept in very clean conditions.