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City Bayview Singapore: Great Location But Has Leaky Ceilings

Where: 30 Bencoolen St, Singapore, Singapore, 189621

For once, we found a hotel that claims to be centrally located that actually is centrally located.

Sitting pretty much equidistant from lots of places you'll want to get to in Singapore, the City Bayview Singapore Hotel is within reasonable walking distance from Orchard Road, the MRT (train) station, Chinatown and even the Indian quarter, and is surrounded by plenty of good bars and restaurants. For a three-star place, there's not much to complain about, with a definitely passable breakfast and a relaxing rooftop pool, and reasonable rates from S$120 to S$320 (US$75-200).

But there's always something to complain about, and for us recently it was the water dripping through our ceiling and plopping onto the carpet. Somewhat more disturbing than the drip-drip-drip, however, was the reaction from the front desk. They showed no surprise at all, and simply asked a couple of questions to narrow down exactly which leak we were experiencing from what seemed like a catalogue of previous reports.

To their credit, by some miracle we could sleep well the next night, but we have the feeling that they might have just redirected the leak to somebody else's room.

Image via Hocchuan/Flickr

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