Singapore in Style: Raffles, Supper Clubs & Private Tours

Private transfer from Changi Airport to Raffles Hotel, where you are met by name at the palm-shaded driveway and shown to your suite by a dedicated butler. The afternoon is yours — perhaps an introduction to the Long Bar, a swim in the 1887 Pool, or simply settling into the suite with the hotel's famous kaya toast and teh tarik. This evening, Emma joins you for the Singapore Sling in the Long Bar and dinner at the Raffles Grill — the hotel's signature restaurant.

Emma arranges private early-morning access to the National Orchid Garden in the Singapore Botanic Gardens at 07:00 — an hour before public opening. The garden holds over 1,000 orchid species, including the Vanda Miss Joaquim (Singapore's national flower), and in the early light with no other visitors, it is a profoundly beautiful experience. Breakfast afterwards at the Halia restaurant in the ginger garden, then a private walking tour of the Colonial Civic District with a heritage architect who has spent 20 years documenting Singapore's surviving colonial buildings.

A private after-hours tour of the Peranakan Museum — the finest collection of Peranakan (Straits Chinese) material culture in the world, housed in a beautifully converted 1912 building. The senior curator leads a 90-minute personal tour, discussing pieces not on public display and the social history of Singapore's most distinctive cultural community. The afternoon is entirely yours. This evening, Emma takes you to a private supper club in a meticulously restored 1930s shophouse in Joo Chiat — a seven-course Peranakan tasting menu with paired wines in a room of twenty covers that epitomises Singapore at its most refined.

A leisurely morning at leisure — perhaps the Raffles Spa, or a slow walk through the colonial arcade to browse the hotel's galleries and boutiques. Mid-morning, private guided visit to the ArtScience Museum — the lotus-shaped building beside Marina Bay that houses simultaneously some of the world's finest touring exhibitions and Singapore's most architecturally extraordinary interior space. The evening culminates at Ce La Vi, the sky restaurant atop Marina Bay Sands on the 57th floor, where the private dining room has been reserved: Singapore's most dramatic restaurant view, with the entire city laid out below.

A final morning at Raffles — perhaps a last Long Bar breakfast, a farewell swim in the 1887 Pool, or a final treatment at the spa. Checkout is 12:00, with butler service to arrange luggage storage until your departure. Private transfer to Changi Airport.