Raffles Hotel, founded by the Sarkies brothers who also founded the E&O Hotel in Penang, is one of the oldest and most elegant hotels in Singapore. Raffles Hotel is also one of the most famous hotels in the Orient. During the turn of the 20th Century, the Raffles Hotel is the epitome of elegance, and the watering hole for celebrities such as Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Harlow, Noel Coward, and Ava Gardner, to name a few.
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