Hotel 1888 Collection

located in the heart of China town - please don’t stay here and complain about the noise!! not that we found it an issue at all. very clean with modern appliances. nice helpful staff. we loved being able to open the window and shutters and listen/watch the night thunder storms and people during the day. shower was amazing and loved the ionised glass that with a flick of a switch was privacy. I suggest placing a towel over the front on the cutest little fridge to stop the bright light at night and it helps it stay cooler too.

This was the second time we stayed here, and both times were very good. To note, I stayed with two family members and we booked a triple room for a 5-night stay. This had a queen-sized futon and a single-sized futon which was clean and comfortable for sleeping but not enough floor space for large pieces of luggage. The room itself was well lit and nicely ventilated, which was great during March. The bathroom was enclosed in atomized glass, which you can control using a switch in the entrance aisle for privacy. There is no bidet for the toilet, but paper towels were available. The shower was decent-- it can only heat up a certain amount of water at a time so if you're the type to take long showers (>15 mins), you may run out of hot water. They also provide a set of shampoo, conditioner and bath gel dispensers. The room also includes an overhead projector (which we never figured out how to use Screencast or the internet browser on, so we just watched whatever was on the available channels) and a small drink fridge. One more thing that was nice is that they gave free bottled water each time the room was cleaned. We were also allowed to borrow umbrellas from the lounge as needed. The location of the hotel is fantastic since it's a few meters away from Chinatown station (NE4|DT19) and a few minutes away from Maxwell station (TE18). It's within walking distance of the Chinatown Complex Food Centre and the Maxwell Food Centre, both of which have amazing food and drink selections. I recommend having the fresh iced soy milk drink! There's plenty of great souvenir shops lining the streets around the hotel so you can get some quick shopping done. There's two 7-11's within 5 minutes of each other in the area as well. The hotel is only accessible via an elevator from the ground floor.

The toilet glass can change the mode from transparent to opaque. There are many lights to choose from but if you want a lamp light for sleep, don't have one. Either you sleep with a bright light somehwere or total darkness.

There were very mixed reviews which had me worried after booking. We had an outside room, with window looking down on bustling noisy side street but with the windows closed there was no noise problem. The room was clean with somewhat working minifridge, safe, toiletries, watercooker and no critters. There were appropriate warnings not to spill food, as with older buildings that would attract ants or worse.

Well-located hotel with very friendly and helpful staff. We paid for a better room and it was worth it as the room didn’t cost much more and was very nice. The hotel is an imaginative reworking of an old building. It’s on the third floor with a reasonable restaurant below. There’s a very serious place to eat durian next door (and who knew there were so many kinds?), so you sometimes walk through a wall of fumes on the way in, but it thankfully doesn’t reach the hotel (and like elsewhere they are mercifully banned in the hotel itself).