PARKROYAL COLLECTION Pickering
by the TopOfHotel team
A 5-star "hotel in a garden" on the edge of Chinatown, with more than 15,000 sqm of WOHA-designed sky gardens wrapping the tower — score 9.4.
A 5-star "hotel in a garden" on the edge of Chinatown, with more than 15,000 sqm of WOHA-designed sky gardens wrapping the tower — score 9.4.
In-Depth Review
Rooms and decor
The tower holds 367 rooms, and guests describe the interiors as clean and contemporary — every room comes with air-con, a flat-screen TV, a minibar and an en-suite bath. We'd ask for a garden-view room, where you look out onto leaves instead of concrete. Some standard categories run a little compact, so if you want room to spread out two suitcases, size up a tier.
Food and amenities
The headline feature is the greenery: more than 15,000 sqm of sky gardens layered over the podium that you can actually walk through, plus a mezzanine outdoor pool ringed by trees with private cabanas — a quick swim feels like a resort set down in the middle of the city. Backing that up are a full spa, a gym, the LIME restaurant serving Asian dishes, a bar and lounge, 24-hour room service and free Wi-Fi. The pool deck and lobby do get lively at peak, so the calm thins out on busy afternoons.
Location and getting there
The hotel sits on Upper Pickering Street, right on the edge of Chinatown. It's about 4-to-5 minutes on foot to Chinatown MRT and 5-to-6 minutes into the hawker stalls for dinner and street food. From the airport, reckon on roughly 20 km, or 25-to-30 minutes by taxi. Real guests rate the stay 9.4/10 across 1,738 reviews.
Things to know before booking
Rates open near $280 a night, a premium even for this stretch, so treat it as a splurge rather than a value play. A few standard rooms are compact — comfortable for a couple, tighter with luggage. And the mezzanine pool and lobby get busy at peak, so the resort-in-the-city quiet is best found mid-morning or late afternoon.
Our take
This one is for couples and design lovers. If you value green architecture, walkable sky gardens and a Chinatown address you can stroll out of for noodles, PARKROYAL COLLECTION Pickering earns its 9.4 — it's the kind of building you'd happily stay in just to be inside the design.
Score Breakdown
Assessed by our editorial team from data and real guest reviews
The Honest Verdict — pros & what to know
- A 5-star designed by WOHA, one of Singapore's clearest icons of green architecture — the whole tower is sheathed in vertical gardens and stepped planted terraces rather than plain glass.
- More than 15,000 sqm of sky gardens layered over the podium that you can genuinely walk through, so the greenery is a place to spend time, not just a view.
- A mezzanine outdoor pool ringed by trees with private cabanas, which makes a quick swim feel like a resort dropped into the middle of the city.
- A full spa, a gym, the LIME restaurant serving Asian dishes, a bar and lounge, plus 24-hour room service and free Wi-Fi.
- Genuinely central: about 4-to-5 minutes on foot to Chinatown MRT and 5-to-6 minutes into the hawker stalls for dinner and street food.
- Rates open near $280 a night, which is a premium even for this stretch beside Chinatown, so it's a splurge rather than a value pick.
- Some standard room categories are on the compact side — fine for a couple, tighter once you spread out two suitcases.
- The mezzanine pool deck and the lobby get lively at peak times, so the resort-in-the-city calm thins out on busy afternoons.
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Insider Tips
- Walk the full loop of sky gardens and planted terraces around the building — it's the one piece of design here you won't find at an ordinary hotel.
- Book a poolside cabana for the afternoon to claim shade and a quiet base on the mezzanine deck.
- Head into Chinatown on foot for dinner and street food rather than eating in every night — the hawker stalls are a 5-to-6-minute walk away.