We stayed at the Amara Singapore for three days and were given a polite but not very warm welcome. After the friendliness and warmth of the staff at the Furama in Da Nang and the Angkor Century in Siem Reap, this was like a cold shower. The room was ok, the front desk staff not very helpful when it came to asking information about sights and maps. The atmosphere in the breakfast room was not very nice, I would even call it unpleasant. All in all we did not really feel at home. The Amara may be conveniently located for business travellers but I would not recommend it to tourists.

Me and my bestfriend visited Singapore from August 25-30 2007 and we stayed at the Amara Singapore Hotel. I generally recommend this hotel as it is very accessible to most of the public transportations. From the Singapore Intl Airport (SIA) you can take the MRT at terminal 2. Take the MRT and transfer at Tanah Merah interchange, then take the train going to Boon Lay and alight at Tanjong Pagar Station. Easy, fast and covenient. Would cost you only around (S$2.70/trip) Temporary train cards are refundable at the airport and you get your S$1 back.

Once you alight at Tanjong Pagar Station find the exit and look for Exit A (Amara Hotel) turn left to Peak Seah Street -- follow the road around the bend, turn left onto Tanjong Pagar Road. Its a 5-minute walk from the station. Very easy to find!

Best of all, the hotel is very accessible to taxis and buses. Bus stops just infront of the hotel. Fronting the hotel are several local stores like 7-11 convenient stores, local stores that sells local goods , bank, a money changer (higher deals than in the hotel), local restaurants with great food.

Just beside the hotel, is a mall and fast-food restaurants (Subway, Burger king etc) , watsons and a relatively nice specialty shops. Nice bargains!

Hotel staffs are great! Friendly and helpful. Hotel rooms are fine typical of just any other 4-star hotels. Though I would say that the bathroom is not properly maintained. They could have cleaned / polished the bathrooms so that the rust wouldnt be seen. Housing keeping is ok.

What else could I say? This hotel is great for families, business travelers or simply for budget consious travelers.

We were recommended the Amara by friends, who had a fantastic stay there. I can't say the same sadly! Check in was a shambles. Of our 3 nights there, we were woken at 7am by alarm calls we hadn't requested - THEN - on the final day when we DID request an alarm call in order to catch out flight, we didn't receive it! The plug got stuck in the bath on out second evening, while it was full. We informed reception of this at 5pm and, when we returned to our room at 3am we found it was still stuck, and full of dirty, cold bath water! We had also booked a taxi for the airport through the concierge the night before we left. We were informed it would be $x, which we kept aside in the currency. When it was 10 minutes overdue we started to panic, but no one seemed keen to chase it up. Then it transpired that it hadn't been booked at all. So they called another one, which turned out to be an executive airport car - we only knew this when we got to the airport (with very very little time to spare for our flight by now) and were charged twice as much as the Amara had quoted! Luckily the driver accpeted credit cards - if not we would surely have missed the flight.

Overall the hotel was lovely aesthetically, and very clean, but the service and organisation were very poor.

I stayed in the Amara on my way to and from Vietnam in March and April 2007. I booked the hotel from the Singapore Stopover brochure and was a bit concerned when I read the previous negative review, But the hotel was a good choice. This was my fourth visit to Singapore. I'm not a shopper, and I was keen to explore Chinatown this time. The location of the hotel was great. It was also one of the quietest hotels I've stayed in. And it's close to the Maxwell Rd hawker stalls and the Blue Ginger restaurant where the food is excellent. There is an MRT a few minutes away. My rooms on both visits were clean and comfortable, though a lingering smell of smoke makes me suspect that people still smoke in the non smoking rooms. I found the concierges very helpful and the service excellent.