Raffles Hotel (Chinese: 莱佛士酒店) is a colonial-style hotel in Singapore, dating from 1887, and named after Singapore's founder Sir Stamford Raffles. Managed by Raffles International, it is known for its luxurious accommodation and superb restaurants. The hotel houses a tropical garden courtyard, museum, and Victorian-style theatre.
Raffles Hotel is reputedly where the sole surviving wild tiger in Singapore was shot and made extinct. Some stories place this event in the Long Bar. Raffles itself claims the tiger had escaped from enclosure at a nearby "native show" and chased underneath the hotel's Bar & Billiard Room (a raised structure) and shot to death there on 13 August 1902.
Raffles is where the Singapore Sling was invented. The cocktail was invented by bartender Ngiam Tong Boon in approximately 1910.
Raffles is the setting for Murakami Ryu's novel and film titled, Raffles Hotel. The film was shot on location.
The site of the hotel was originally the location of the oldest girls' school in Singapore (1842) now called St. Margaret's. It was founded by Maria Tarn Dyer, the missionary wife of Samuel Dyer.
The hotel was featured as a Imperial Japenese stronghold in Medal of Honor: Rising Sun.
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