Raffles Spa

Everyone knows the Long Bar. The quieter Raffles splurge is in the arcade, with a steam room and a gold scrub.

Raffles Spa is for the milestone splurge: a birthday, a pre-wedding day off or the afternoon you have finally earned after a brutal quarter. You get a heritage address, a hushed room and a full hydrothermal set-up; the compromise is the bill, which is built for occasions, not lunch breaks. Book ahead, especially for weekends, and pick your treatment before you go rather than at the desk.

It is in Raffles Arcade rather than the main building, and it is open to anyone with a booking, not just the people sleeping upstairs. The spa arrived with the hotel's two-year restoration, which reopened the property in 2019 with interiors by the New York designer Alexandra Champalimaud. The layout runs to five single treatment rooms, a couple's room and the Gem Suite, a four-person space with its own treatment rooms and facilities. Around them are a steam room, sauna, ice fountain and an onsen-style pool, which is the part that makes it more than a massage in a nice postcode.

The menu changed in 2026. In February, Raffles Spa announced it had become the first Singapore spa partner for Omorovicza, the Hungarian skincare house whose story starts in Budapest's thermal baths. It launched heavy on gold: the 120-minute Golden Spa Ritual paired a gold sugar scrub and shimmer oil with a hydralifting facial, the Queen Ritual added back exfoliation and massage, and a 60-minute Golden Body Treatment gave you the glitter without the full afternoon. Facials ran from 60 to 90 minutes, some with LED therapy, and for the committed there was a ten-hour facial package designed to be used monthly (ten hours of facials being, presumably, a year's worth of not touching your face).

None of this is cheap. The launch prices are in the facts box; at launch, weekday prices were lower than weekend ones, so ask about the difference when you book. Check the current menu too, since launch menus tend not to stay put.

How to do it well: choose a weekday, ask when you book whether your treatment includes time in the steam room, sauna and pool, and if it does, arrive early enough to use them. City Hall and Esplanade MRT are both close. If you are coming as a group of four, the Gem Suite is the reason to book here rather than anywhere else. And resist checking your email in the lounge afterwards; that is the one thing the spa can't do for you.

Good to know Raffles Spa is in Raffles Arcade, Raffles Hotel Singapore, 1 Beach Road. The prices in the facts box are from the February 2026 Omorovicza launch and carry ++; check the spa's own menu and book ahead, especially for weekends.

Raffles Spa | #01-31 Raffles Arcade, 328 North Bridge Road, Singapore 188719, Singapore 189673 | Nearest MRT: City Hall, Esplanade