Raffles Singapore

This guide to Raffles Singapore opens on a night in 1902, when a schoolmaster named Charles Phillips was roused from bed, still in his pyjamas, and handed a rifle for an unlikely errand inside the hotel's Bar and Billiard Room. It also reaches back to the hotel's opening in 1887 by four Armenian brothers, and the writers, including Somerset Maugham and Kipling, who stayed and worked in its rooms. Linger by the Bar and Billiard Room, where that 1902 night began.