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Region: Central Region> Province: Central Area> Location: Arab Street and Bugis
Southeast Asia Hotel
An old school Chinese-run hotel
Southeast Asia Hotel
190 Waterloo Street
Singapore
Tel: 6338 2394
Fax: 6338 3480
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Description
It takes a certain type of traveller to appreciate Southeast Asia Hotel, one of those old school Chinese-run hotels (think: where service is frequently sharp and curt), yet over the past four decades she has established herself firmly as the grand old dame in her rambunctious neighbourhood, and still packs in the crowds today. The noisy street that most of her rooms overlook is home to a daily local bazaar of little interest to the tourist; she is surrounded on both sides by shops blasting CDs of Buddhist chants and incense shops in the other directions; neighbours with one of Singapore's most important Chinese temples, and a Hindu temple, it is not unusual to see devotees of both faiths making offerings to both the Goddess of Mercy and to Krishna, releasing hundreds of pigeons for karma at the same time. While the rooms are adequately comfortable (with all your necessary needs, rather than creature comforts), the hotel rewards the patient (and the tolerant of noise) with adequate, excellent value rooms, wonderful location, and a keen insight into a neighbourhood that is near enough to cosmopolitan, clean cut Singapore but which definitely does not feel like it.
Standard - Double
80 (low season)
80 (high season)
Superior - Double
90 (low season)
90 (high season)
Family room
120 (low season)
120 (high season)
Added to Travelfish on: 11th August, 2007
Last visited or updated on: 11th August, 2007
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