Singapore is one of the best places in the world to shop.  In this city which has one foot in Europe and the other in Asia, the Raffles Hotel is a massive, classic, grand hotel named after Sir Stanford Raffles who was the founder of modern day Singapore.

With famous guests like Noel Coward and Ernest Hemingway, the Raffles conjures up memories of a by-gone era, a colonial empire and a place of legends. Declared a National Monument in 1987, the hotel was restored and reopened in 1991.  It is reputedly the last place in Singapore where a tiger was shot, back in 1902.

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