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| Executive Travel: Singapore |
Best Hotels
Marilen Cawad
09/01/2005
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Kronik enjoys the baths to
ease his jetlag after long
flights from the United States. (Travel time from
either New York or
Los Angeles to Singapore is roughly 18 hours; one heads east
across
Europe and Asia, the other flies over the Pacific Ocean.)
At
 the Four
Seasons, located near Orchard Boulevard, just
a five-minute walk from the
financial district and Singapore’s shopping
and entertainment belt, sports
enthusiasts can enjoy a wide variety of
activities. Overlooking the pool deck on
the third level is the fitness
center, which offers cardiovascular equipment
that is furnished with
individual audiovisual monitors and headsets. Guests can
choose their
favorite movies, music or exercise videos. The aerobics studio is
fitted with a wooden sprung floor and a home theater system. The
fitness center
also features a billiard room and a golf simulator. The
Club at Four Seasons
offers four tennis courts: two are air-conditioned
indoor courts and two are
equipped with lights for those who want some
night play. The Club also has spa
treatment rooms staffed by massage
therapists who are well versed in the arts of
shiatsu, Swedish and
aromatherapy, along with traditional Indonesian methods.
“Singapore hotels are more customer-oriented than the hotels in
America,”
says Edwin Choy, who manages Globotours, a California-based
tour operator that
has specialized in Asian travel for 15 years. “In
general, the hotel staff is
more efficient and guests almost never have
to wait.” For example, traveling
executives are always pleased to
discover that wireless broadband is a basic
service in many of the best
Singapore hotels—something that Choy argues is still
lacking in many
hotels in the United States.To view the Best Hotel chart click:
 Singapore's Best Hotels Information Chart
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