Raffles Hotel travel guide

Victorian flair in a monument

The “Grand Dame of the East” has risen from the fountain of youth, lively as never before. She started when three Armenian brothers named Sarkies rented a bungalow by the sea in 1887 and changed it into a hotel. Emperors, kings and presidents, heads of the government and stars from all areas of show business lived in the Raffles, and writers and journalists from all over the world met in the Writers' Bar. If you walk across the gravel of the drive to the artistically forged iron portico, take a look into the gigantic hotel lobby and look into the Writers Bar for traces of Somerset Maugham, Hermann Hesse or Noel Coward.

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