The Fullerton Hotel Singapore

The Fullerton in the 1928 General Post Office on the Singapore River serves afternoon tea in the Courtyard under a glass roof: the grandest room in the city for a scone.

The neoclassical General Post Office on the river opened in 1928 and became a hotel in 2001 without losing its columns, its atrium or its air of the colonial city at work. The Courtyard, the lobby lounge under the glass roof, serves afternoon tea daily with a tier that mixes the English tradition with Singaporean sweets, and the hotel’s pastry kitchen runs seasonal collections and a Christmas log that the city queues for. Tea comes with a view of the atrium and, from the terrace outside, of the river and the Marina Bay skyline.

The Fullerton tea is the good-value grand tea of Singapore: a landmark room at a price below Raffles, and easy to book.