This article is part of Traveller’s Destination Guide to Singapore. See all stories . First, there was wool.
Then, there was iron ore. And then, there was quirkiness – Australia’s sense of fun has been up there with our best exports since Crocodile Dundee declared: “That’s not a knife.” The latest example to make waves isn’t a movie or a movie star – it’s the fabulously quirky QT Hotels & Resorts.
The homegrown hospitality brand has just set foot in Asia for the first time. QT Singapore’s pool, on the rooftop of the nearly century-old building, continues the Lion City’s colonial aesthetic. QT Singapore is the chain’s eighth hotel, joining four in Australia and three in New Zealand.
It’s owned by Sydney-based EVT – which, as with our reputation for off-beat humour, began its own life in Australian cinema and film. Today, it is also the parent of Rydges Hotels & Resorts, as well as QT, which was established in 2011 with the opening of QT Gold Coast . There are also QTs in Sydney , Melbourne and Canberra as well as Wellington , Auckland and Queenstown in New Zealand.
QT Singapore is on the island nation’s bustling Robinson Road, inhabiting the ornate 1927-built Eastern Extension Telegraph building that had been Hotel Telegraph. EVT took it over last year and, in collaboration with the building’s owners, Sunray Singapore, began its transformation. A balcony suite in the QT Singapore, with the luxe and high ceiling common to the hotel’s 134 rooms.
.