[Hotels And Photos] The Robertson House By The Crest Collection

Aaron carter said:

This motherfucker Murray Robertson used to smoke opium with scum in dens....

You find yourself in what looks like a 19th-century opium den. There is a bed to recline on and a pipe at its centre. Illustrations of labourers smoking opium plaster the walls and the heady fragrance of the drug – or rather, an incense meant to simulate its scent – fills your nostrils.

This, you are told, is where J. Murray Robertson, a prominent colonial-era Municipal Councillor, entertained his less savoury contacts, like triad leaders.

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Aaron carter said:

This motherfucker Murray Robertson used to smoke opium with scum in dens....

You find yourself in what looks like a 19th-century opium den. There is a bed to recline on and a pipe at its centre. Illustrations of labourers smoking opium plaster the walls and the heady fragrance of the drug – or rather, an incense meant to simulate its scent – fills your nostrils.

This, you are told, is where J. Murray Robertson, a prominent colonial-era Municipal Councillor, entertained his less savoury contacts, like triad leaders.

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jymifalcon said:

I was there last month—rooms were comfy, but the walls felt a bit thin. I could hear the hallway sometimes, but loved the riverside walk just outside.

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Les grossman said:

Formerly Park Hotel Clarke Quay, The Robertson House by The Crest Collection (its name an eponymous nod to Dr J. Murray Robertson, a prominent British municipal counsellor largely credited with transmogrifying Singapore's once fallow central swamplands into a hectic wharf district circa the 1880s) may be misperceived as evangelizing colonialism, given ostensibly impenitent showcases emblematic of entrepôt trade witnessed at every turn: mondo black-and-white stills capturing teeming dockside activity, cartographic prints delineating the long-defunct East India Company's Asiatic reach, multitudinous rattan fixtures, even the hotel lobby itself is smothered in some nutmeg and clove-tinged scent. Then again, there's no denying this whole "colonial-chic" affair, for better or for worse, does indeed pique.

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taciturn said:

How much per night?

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Thread '5 star SG hotel The Robertson House gets destroyed in scathing review'

Dec 6, 2024

So tragically half-pie, Dr. J Murray Robertson himself would churn in his grave

The Robertson House can best be likened to a grandly malfunctioning clockwork orange - pretty when viewed from outside, yet hardwired wrong aplenty beneath. Its state of affairs is intuited as either being: a) near non-existent, or b) in utter dishevelment, take your pick. Anyways, cutting through the flannel, here's a laundry list setting forth what went thumpingly skewwhiff during our ill-fated sojourn.

Checking in lasted forever. Some tourist backlog stretching longer than the Chungking...

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