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Long Bar is also where the national cocktail, the Singapore Sling, was invented by bartender Ngiam Tong Boon. [ 13 ] On 18 July 2005, it was announced that Colony Capital LLC would purchase Raffles Holdings the entire chain of Raffles Hotels, which included the Raffles Hotel, for $1.45 billion.
The Singapore sling is a gin-based sling cocktail from Singapore.This long drink was reputed to have been developed in 1915 by Ngiam Tong Boon (traditional Chinese: 嚴崇文; simplified Chinese: 严崇文; pinyin: Yán Chóngwén; Wade–Giles: Yen Ch'ung-wen), a bartender at the Long Bar in Raffles Hotel, Singapore. [1]
Raffles Hotels & Resorts is a Singaporean chain of luxury hotels which traces its roots to 1887 with the opening of the original Raffles Hotel in Singapore. [2] The company started to develop internationally in the late 1990s.
Raffles City is a large complex located in the Civic District within the Downtown Core of the city-state of Singapore. Occupying an entire city block bounded by Stamford Road , Beach Road , Bras Basah Road and North Bridge Road , it houses two hotels and an office tower over a podium which contains a shopping complex and a convention centre.
Raffles Praslin, Seychelles is home to the Raffles Spa. It is the largest spa in Seychelles with 1,234 square meters of space, including 13 treatment pavilions. The hotel also features the largest swimming pool in the Indian Ocean with a length of 45 meters. The hotel is located on the Anse Takamaka Beach that spans 500 meters of beachfront.
With six levels, and 98,500 square feet (9,150 m 2) of retail space, the podium had a 90% take-up rate at the time of its re-opening. [31] Nevertheless, by May 2017, One Raffles Place's retail areas were faring poorly, with many of the larger tenants moving out, and other tenants planning to move out after their lease ended.
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Raffles Place MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) interchange station on the North–South Line (NSL) and East–West Line (EWL) in Singapore. Located in the Downtown Core , the station is underneath Raffles Place south of the Singapore River .