In December 2025, I checked into the Club Premier Suite at The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore, a luxurious 608-room hotel spanning across 32 levels which has firmly established itself as one of Singapore’s most esteemed addresses. The hotel is located just steps away from Promenade MRT station, shopping malls such as Millenia Walk, Suntec City and Marina Square as well as major attractions such as Marina Bay Sands, ArtScience Museum, Singapore Flyer and Gardens by the Bay. Singapore Changi Airport is less than 30 minutes away by car.
Other luxury hotels in the district include Mandarin Oriental, Singapore, Conrad Singapore Marina Bay, JW Marriott Singapore South Beach, PARKROYAL COLLECTION Marina Bay, Singapore and Pan Pacific Singapore.
Other Marriott Bonvoy properties in Singapore include The Singapore EDITION, The St. Regis Singapore, Singapore Marriott Tang Plaza Hotel, 21 Carpenter Singapore, The Warehouse Hotel, The Westin Singapore and W Singapore.
My stay was booked under the Crafted Holiday package (valid for stays until 15 January 2026), which comes with a box of festive chocolate bon bons created in exclusive collaboration with local dessert chef Janice Wong; a bottle of Champagne Barons de Rothschild Ritz Réserve Brut NV; breakfast for two at Colony; and a guaranteed late check-out until 3pm.
The UTW (“Under Ten Words”): Iconic bathroom windows, incredible bay views and sensational club lounge.
The must-dos (if any): Book a club room and enjoy mid-day snacks and hors d’oeuvres and cocktails (as well as all-day champagne) at The Ritz-Carlton Club, have breakfast at Colony, use the whirlpool at the The Ritz-Carlton Spa.
While searchable and bookable through the Marriott Bonvoy app, the Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore does not participate in the Marriott Bonvoy programme, meaning you will not be able to redeem point stays or earn points from your bookings.
THE RITZ-CARLTON, MILLENIA SINGAPORE
The hotel is set within an iconic building, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Kevin Roche and famed for its octagonal windows (a feature in every guestroom). Interiors are courtesy of Hirsch Bedner Associates (Capella Bangkok, Four Seasons Hotel Kyoto, Shangri-La Tokyo, Singapore Airlines’ The Private Room) and, in the case of the recently refurbished East Wing and new dining concepts Republic Bar and Republic Lounge, Tony Chi Studio (Rosewood Hong Kong, Park Hyatt Kyoto). The hotel boasts an extensive collection of artworks, with Frank Stella’s hanging Cornucopia sculpture and Dave Chihuly’s tentacle-like “Sunrise” and “Sunset” glass installations being featured heavily in the hotel’s marketing materials.
In terms of wellness, the marine-themed Ritz-Carlton Spa offers treatments using products from American skincare brand Epicutis and British beauty brand ESPA, with complimentary use of the steam room, sauna and whirlpool for hotel guests. (The whirlpool is notable for the Gyarados-ean Hydro Pump intensity of its central row of massage jets.) During my stay, I went for the 60-minute Signature Massage, and was surprised by the spa team who were waiting in the all gussied-up treatment suite with a candle-lit tart to sing “Happy Birthday” to me. My therapist Yani was very careful with my requested excluded areas all the while ensuring the treatment never felt like it was particularly lacking or different from the full experience, with the heated pillows and automated bed controls being nice additional flourishes.
Elsewhere, the fitness centre has cardiovascular and strength machines, free weights, Total Resistance Exercise suspension equipment as well as a movement studio with yoga mats, boxing gear, medicine balls and resistance bands. Sun worshippers would enjoy the 25m lap pool with surrounding a three-tiered timber pool deck, sun beds and private cabanas.
The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore has the notable distinction of being the only hotel in the world to offer an augmented reality hotel art tour experience, allowing you to interact with moving computer graphics which will likely elevate your impression and appreciation of key art pieces around the lobby and ground level of the hotel. You commence the multi-sensory tour with your mobile device by scanning a QR code located near the main entrance, and your web browser will display information on the artist and artwork as well as harness AR technology to introduce graphic effects on your camera screen based on the specific art piece you are viewing. For instance, butterflies will fly around the overhanging “Cornucopia” in the hotel lobby and chrysanthemum flowers drift in the wind in front of Tay Bak Koi’s “Chrysanthemums” painting. My favourite AR effect would be the cute white beluga whale with its chibi sharp teeth in the Stella Gallery where “Moby Dick”, the pair of brightly-coloured wall sculptures near the swimming pool entrance, can be found.
Guests with club privileges can take advantage of complimentary one-way limousine transfers to destinations within the Marina Bay area.
CLUB PREMIER SUITE
Boasting panoramic Marina Bay vistas as well as being the only room type to offer exclusive views of the Singapore Flyer from the bathroom, the 72sqm Club Premier Suite plays it all high-gloss wood-finish panels, which simultaneously dates and yet adds a touch of sophisticated, home-style warmth to the proceedings. Floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room provide endless possibilities for Marina Bay Sands backdrop photos, while your view from the bedroom is through a postcard octagonal window.
The pantry offers Nespresso coffee and tea-making facilities, while the Honor Bar comprises a variety of canned beers, bottled spirits and wines (including Moet & Chandon champagne) and bottled Negroni from Republic Bar alongside soft drinks, sparling and still water.
The marble bathroom offers double vanities with a plugged-in Dyson hairdryer (a rarity given how infrequently power plugs feature in modern Singaporean hotel bathrooms), a powder room as well as a cosy enclosed rainfall shower, with bathroom amenities courtesy of French luxury fragrance brand Diptyque. Like all other guest bathrooms in the property, the bathroom prominently features the hotel’s signature octagonal window next to the bathtub, which forms the subject and backdrop of thousands of photographs across social media, ranging from pensive and celebratory to (the more ubiquitous) saucy and sexually-charged, usually involving the strategic use of foamy bubbles and wet backs. A bath tray and bath salt makes it that much more easy to spend longer periods in the tub.
Pursuant to my Crafted Holiday package, a bottle of Champagne Barons de Rothschild Ritz Réserve Brut NV and a box of festive chocolate bon bons created in exclusive collaboration with local dessert chef Janice Wong greeted us upon arrival. These were in addition to the tiered towel cake and birthday chocolate cake set-up by the team as birthday amenities.
Whilst at the The Ritz-Carlton Club during evening cocktails, I learnt that the club has recently discontinued service of their beautiful Rosé reserve champagne just two months prior, and was lamenting its absence to the team throughout the evening. When we returned to the suite that night, we were greeted by none other than a bottle of Barons de Rothschild Rosé reserve champagne, accompanied by a welcome card with an adorable illustration of Larvitar (what did they base the drawing on? I cannot find the design on Google!). Consider me touched, and very impressed.
DINING
Breakfast is served at Colony, the hotel’s all-day restaurant which showcases heritage cuisine through its seven different kitchens. Located on the 3rd floor, the British seafaring-inspired space is blessed with generous streams of natural light, and boasts the reputation of being one of the hardest hotel restaurants in Singapore to score a table – in particular, for its famous Sunday champagne brunch – without bookings made well in advance.
Breakfast guests can expect an extensive Japanese section with Cold Tofu Salad, Wakame Salad, Jelly Fish and Marinated Octopus; a dim sum section with Char Siew Bun, Chicken Siew Mai, Steamed Prawn Cheong Fun, Lo Ma Kai, Soon Kueh and Jade Dumpling; an Indian selection with Egg Prata, Naan, Lentil & Vegetable Sambar and Rice Poha; a noodle and congee station offering Fish Congee as well as dry and soup Wanton Noodle and Bak Chor Mee with an extensive array of condiments for your desired customisation; local specialities such as Singapore Fried Carrot Cake, Traditional Kaya Toast, Bak Kut Teh and Nasi Lemak (Deep Fried Chicken and Sambal Egg Ikan Bilis); and a la minute Western dishes such as Eggs Benedict, Avocado Toast Sandwich, Parma Ham Sandwich, Waffle and Pancake.
The local specialities left the strongest impressions. The Traditional Kaya Toast was thickly buttered, while the Bak Kut Teh was a robustly peppery affair. The Singapore Fried Carrot Cake erred generously on the egg front, while the Nasi Lemak offered moist, fragrant rice as well as daringly spicy and savoury sambal (albeit the Deep Fried Chicken being less sedap Nasi Lemak and more Siglap Western food). The long queues for the Bak Chor Mee from the noodle station are justified – the dish triumphs in just how accurately it recreates the authentic sensory feels of house downstairs.
You would be hard-pressed to find a better hotel buffet breakfast in Singapore.
The same week of my stay, I also had the Festive Weekday Lunch, with individual offerings from the buffet often possessing the quality of good zichar despite the buffet line quantity churn. Highlights include the delectable sashimi as well as immensely fresh and juicy Snow Crab from the Ice Bar; the thickly coated Salted Egg Chicken with Fish Skin; the delicious selection of Local Roast Meats (Roast Duck, Crackling Pork Belly and Char Siew); and the signature Colony Laksa.
Republic Lounge is the hotel’s afternoon destination blessed with caresses of sunshine, while the adjacent Republic Bar is a decidedly darker, sexier affair with vintage posters, scarlet and burgundy hues, leather and dark wood surfaces and a dramatic communal island bar where the action happens. The cocktail menu at Republic Bar pays tribute to breakthroughs in the 1960’s – media, innovations, aesthetics and icons – with tipples inspired by Singapore’s revered Lee Kuan Yew (the refreshing and orchid-garnished Founding Father from Icons); the Shinkansen in Japan (the matcha sake and vodka-based Bullet Train from Innovations); Her World magazine (the spicy and floral “Woman Of The Year” from Media); and American artist Frank Stella (Visions of Stella from Aesthetics which sports a dramatic slab of meringue).
Other sources of inspiration for the menu include Nanyang artist Cheong Soo Pieng, the trippy psychedelic movement, boxer Muhammad Ali and the lava lamp. My personal favourite? Fool’s Gold, the Elvis Presley-inspired take on the Old Fashioned which adds peanut butter and savoury turkey bacon to the mix.
Elsewhere, the Michelin-starred Summer Pavilion serves modern Cantonese cuisine in a posh and sophisticated setting, using the kind of glassware and crockery that your grandma normally reserves for when Lee Hsien Loong or the Queen of England drops by.
THE RITZ-CARLTON CLUB
The Ritz-Carlton Club is located on level 32 (the hotel’s highest floor), with impressive views of the bay area and Singapore skyline and a variety of different seating arrangements – window-side, sofa seating, booth and even a drawing room with easel and drawing materials for the artistically-inclined. A rotational slushie selection (during my visit, I had Rose Slushie, Pineapple Mango Slushie and Frozen Margarita), a variety of wines and the hotel’s very own Champagne Barons de Rothschild Ritz Réserve Brut NV are available for guests to enjoy across all culinary presentations. In that regard, the Ritz-Carlton Club is one of the few club lounges in Singapore which offers champagne breakfast – others include Four Seasons Hotel Singapore, The Fullerton Hotel Singapore, Mandarin Oriental, Singapore and Pan Pacific Singapore.
The club offers five culinary presentations per day: breakfast (6.30am – 10.30am), mid-day snacks (12.00pm – 2.00pm), afternoon tea (2.30pm – 4.30pm), hors d’oeuvres and cocktails (5.30pm – 8.00pm) as well as desserts and cordials (8.30pm – 10.30pm).
Breakfast was a modest buffet set-up comprising an array of bakes and fruits, Minced Pork Congee, Har Gao and Jade Dumpling, with the sole a la minute selection being egg dishes from the Egg Station, while Afternoon Tea featured a tiered selection of savouries and sweets. In comparison, Mid-day Snacks was a more indulgent situation, extensive enough for a light lunch – think Mushroom Veloute with Truffle Crème Fraiche; Briyani Rice with Dried Fruits and Nuts; Chicken Kofta with Garlic Honey and Ancho Chilies; California Maki and Cucumber Unagi Maki; Mini Ciabatta with Parma Ham, Quince Paste and Arugula; sweets such as Blueberry Cheese Tart and Chocolate Feuilletine Cake; and a variety of heritage snacks such as Coconut Ang Ku Kueh, Penang Lapis and Kueh Dadar.
The most elaborate dining presentation at The Ritz-Carlton Club is Hors D’oeuvres and Cocktails. On top of the selection of wines and champagne already available, the club offers a selection of cocktails – Kopi Martini, Rose Cardamon Spritz, Singapore Sling, Negroni, Old Fashioned and Gin & Tonic. If your stay falls on a Thursday, you can even order from a special extended menu with Smoked Negroni and Smoked Old-Fashioned available.
In terms of nosh, buffet options include Green Beans with Curry Aioli, Roasted Onions and Za’atar; Singapore Laksa; Butter Chicken and Fragrance Rice Pilaf; sweets such as Baked Chocolate Macademia Nut Tart, Strawberry Cheesecake and Pistachio Berry Choux; and a variety of heritage snacks such as Kueh Sagu Melaka, Kueh Ubi Kayu and Kueh Kosui. Highlights included the moreish Spice Roasted Cauliflower with Garlic and Chili Yogurt and Local Roast Meats, a Colony dish available here free-flow which is paired with an exceptional oil-slick chicken rice. The latter went out of stock before the end of cocktail service. I had four helpings.
Service here was reliably superb. Aside from arranging for the complimentary bottle of lovely Barons de Rothschild Rosé reserve champagne to be sent to my room, the club (specifically, team member Violet) went to the extent of labelling each and every glass of wine served to us with a Post-It when we were keen to compare the different reds and whites, a thoughtful touch given how we could have helped ourselves at the wine dispenser machine. By the end of the evening, our glass-laden table looked as though we just concluded a full-on wine tasting.
If one wishes to continue drinking and taking in the night-time Marina Bay views after evening cocktails, Desserts and Cordials showcases sweets such as Tiramisu, Chocolate Feuilletine Cake, Pandan Cake, Double Chocolate Cookie and White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookie with one hot Asian dessert available (I had Hot Cheng Tng) alongside a variety of pralines and chocolates.
CONCLUSION
As with my previous two stays (here and here), service has always been The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore’s unassailable asset, with The Ritz-Carlton Club easily ranking as one of the best and most luxurious club lounges in Singapore.
Even if you do not book a club room (but why wouldn’t you – that’s like queueing for Hill Street Tai Hwa Pork Noodle and buying their smallest bowl to share with a friend), the spacious guest rooms and iconic bathroom windows provide an excellent setting for special occasions and luxury living, and Colony’s buffet breakfast remains a benchmark-setting affair.
Even if the hotel still does not participate in the Marriott Bonvoy programme.
The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore
7 Raffles Avenue
Singapore 039799
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