Grand Hyatt Singapore, formerly known as Hyatt Regency Singapore and the Singapore Hyatt Hotel, is a hotel on Scotts Road in the Central Area of Singapore.
Grand Hyatt Singapore, formerly known as Hyatt Regency Singapore and the Singapore Hyatt Hotel, is a hotel on Scotts Road in the Central Area of Singapore.
The hotel was constructed in 1970. [1] [2] [3] At the time of its completion, it was the largest hotel in Southeast Asia. [4] 200 of the hotel's rooms, as well as the reception area, a bar and the Garden Terrace coffeehouse opened on March 1971, with the rest of the hotel being fully completed by May. [5] The hotel was officially opened by then Minister of Social Affairs Othman Wok on 2 October, with Aw Cheng Hu, the wife of Lee Chee San, the managing director of Chung Khiaw Bank, performing the dedication ceremony. [6] By 1979, the hotel had become the Hyatt Regency Singapore. [7]
In January 1980, plans for a $30 million, which would increase the number of rooms by 451, were approved. [8] The hotel's lifts were computerised in March 1983. [9] Its rooms were refurbished in May. [10] In December 1987, a training centre was established in the hotel in order to train staff. [11] From 1990 to 1998, the hotel underwent major renovations, after which it became the Grand Hyatt Singapore. [12] [13] The hotel's lobby was remodelled in 2003. [14]
The hotel began renovations in October 2021. [14] The hotel temporarily closed on 19 September 2022 due to the renovations. [15]
Hyatt Hotels Corporation, commonly known as Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, is an American multinational hospitality company headquartered in the Riverside Plaza area of Chicago that manages and franchises luxury and business hotels, resorts, and vacation properties. Hyatt Hotels & Resorts is one of the businesses managed by the Pritzker family. Hyatt has more than 1350 hotels and all-inclusive properties in 69 countries across six continents.
Adam's Mark Hotels & Resorts was a chain of upscale hotels in the United States. The company was headquartered in the HBE Corporation offices in Creve Coeur, Missouri, in Greater St. Louis. Fred Kummer founded the chain in the early 1970s, as well as its parent, HBE Corp.
The Palmer House – A Hilton Hotel is a historic hotel in Chicago's Loop area. It is a member of the Historic Hotels of America program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The first Palmer House opened in 1870, and the present building in 1925. In the 19th century, the Palmer House was the city's first hotel with elevators, and the first hotel with electric light bulbs and telephones in the guest rooms. The hotel has been dubbed the longest continuously operating hotel in North America, although it temporarily closed from March 2020 to June 17, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
United Overseas Bank Plaza is a commercial complex that consists of twin tower late-modernist skyscrapers in Singapore. At completion, UOB Plaza One was one of the three tallest in the country, sharing the title with the OUB Centre and Republic Plaza; it is now the second tallest since the completion of Tanjong Pagar Centre in 2016.
The Singapore Open was a golf tournament in Singapore that was predominantly part of the Asian Tour schedule. The event was held at Sentosa Golf Club since 2005 and since 2017 had been part of the Open Qualifying Series, giving up to four non-exempt players entry into The Open Championship.
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. The mall is managed by CapitaCommercial Trust and CapitaMall Trust. It was completed in 1986.
The Goodwood Park Hotel is a heritage hotel in Singapore, situated in a 6-hectare landscaped garden on Scotts Road. It was first built as the club house for the Teutonic Club serving the expatriate German community in Singapore, and later converted into a hotel.
The Fairmont Century Plaza is a 19-story luxury hotel in Century City, Los Angeles, US. The hotel fronts the Avenue of the Stars, adjacent to the twin Century Plaza Towers and the 2000 Avenue of the Stars complex. At the time of its opening in 1966, the Century Plaza Hotel was the highest building in Century City, with views extending all the way to the Pacific Ocean. It was also the first hotel to have color televisions in all of its rooms. The hotel closed for renovations in 2016, and reopened on September 27, 2021, operated by Fairmont Hotels and Resorts. It is a member of Historic Hotels of America.
The Hyatt Regency Atlanta is a business hotel located on Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Opened in 1967 as the Regency Hyatt House, John C. Portman Jr.'s revolutionary 22-story atrium design for the hotel has influenced hotel design enormously in the years since. The hotel instantly became one of the most recognized buildings in Atlanta.
The Bank of China Building is a development consisting of two skyscrapers located in the central business district of Singapore. It is located on 4 Battery Road, adjacent to 6 Battery Road, Maybank Tower, and roughly 100 metres from the Fullerton Hotel. The Tower serves as the headquarters for the Bank of China.
Voco Orchard Singapore is a voco hotel in located at Orchard Road, Singapore. It is the first voco-branded hotel by InterContinental Hotels Group in Southeast Asia.
The Hyatt Grand Central New York is a hotel located at 109 East 42nd Street, adjoining Grand Central Terminal, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It operated as the 2,000-room Commodore Hotel between 1919 and 1976, before hotel chain Hyatt and real estate developer Donald Trump converted the hotel to the 1,400-room Grand Hyatt New York between 1978 and 1980. As of 2019, the hotel is planned to be replaced with a skyscraper named Project Commodore.
The Hyatt Regency San Francisco Downtown SOMA is a 36-story highrise hotel at 50 Third Street in San Francisco, California.
Singaporean National Badminton Championships is an annual badminton tournament held in Singapore since 1961.
Tan Boon Teik was a Singaporean judge who served as the second attorney-general of Singapore between 1969 and 1992. At the age of 39, Tan was the youngest person to be appointed as attorney-general, and was the longest-serving attorney-general after the Independence of Singapore, after 25 years in office.
Joseph Choo Seng Quee, popularly known as Uncle Choo, was a Singaporean footballer and football coach. He was coach of the Indonesia, Malaya/Malaysia and Singapore national teams. He is widely recognised as one of Singapore's best football coaches.
The Park Hyatt Washington is a luxury hotel located at 1201 24th Street NW in the West End neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. The operator is Hyatt Hotels Corporation, which since the hotel's opening has branded the structure one of its luxury Park Hyatt properties. The hotel, a Postmodernist structure that opened in 1986, hosts the Blue Duck Tavern, a restaurant that consistently ranks as one of the city's best.
The Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, also known as the Hyatt Regency SFO, is an airport hotel located on Bayshore Highway near San Francisco International Airport in the Bay Area city of Burlingame, California. It is the original location of the second Hyatt hotel. Since 1998 it has been owned by Host Hotels & Resorts.
The following lists events that happened during 2022 in the Republic of Singapore.
Malayan Bank Chambers, also known as Maybank Chambers and originally known as the Whiteaway Laidlaw Building or the Whiteaway Laidlaw & Co Building, was a building on Battery Road in Singapore.