Andaz Singapore
Hyatt's design-led Andaz in Singapore's Bugis quarter, topped by Mr Stork: a Level 39 rooftop bar of teepee huts and 360-degree city views.
Andaz is Hyatt’s design-led concept brand, and the Singapore outpost makes the case for it well. The promise is the luxury you would expect from the parent group, delivered with an unexpected twist: a hotel where the styling does some of the talking.
That much is clear from the lobby, where artworks and sculptures are dotted through the space, and it carries up into the rooms: contemporary, considered, the sort of interiors that make a guest feel a shade more stylish for having checked in. Pack your better luggage.
Service is the steady counterweight to the styling, attentive without being intrusive, and the views do their share of the work, drawing the eye out across the city from the upper floors.
The hotel’s headline act is Mr Stork, the rooftop bar perched on Level 39. It is an alfresco drinking and dining spot built around ten teepee huts, their shape borrowed from the nests of the bar’s namesake bird, set among tropical planting with 360-degree views of Singapore below. The cocktail list is garden-led, built on herbs and fresh fruit (ginger, thyme, basil, rhubarb), and one evening up here is close to mandatory.
Andaz Singapore is the rare city hotel that treats personality as a core amenity rather than a finishing touch. For a design-literate traveller, that is precisely the appeal.
