Everyone who regularly stays in hotels has that one hotel chain they don’t play about. For me, that just became The Standard. I am a convert — for life. I will be visiting locations because of their openings, and I will be sitting at the bar, reminiscing loudly about my “first stay at a Standard” in the same way that people talk about the first time they got drunk. And that’s saying a lot: the first hotel I ever stayed at was a Four Seasons.
The Standard group was born in New York, so its existence amid Singapore’s equally towering skyline feels natural (though Singapore’s skyline is actually so vertiginous that when one taxi driver asked me how many floors the hotel was and I said eight, she replied, “Oh, so it’s small?”). In a way, she wasn’t wrong — amid the blur of high rise luxury, The Standard Singapore still manages to feel boutique.
