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<h2>WHY STAY AT METT Singapore?</h2>
<p>A 1926 colonial administrative block on Fort Canning Hill has been, over the years, British military headquarters, Japanese wartime bunker, Singapore Armed Forces turf, and a stint as a country club and hotel before being reincarnated, most recently, as METT Singapore. Stylishly set free from its history, the hotel treats dining, wellness, and socializing as one continuous, slightly indulgent activity: chef Daniele Sperindio runs the kitchens, padel courts and biohacking treatments are on offer, and the whole place carries the loose, clubby energy of a members’ hangout that happens to rent out 84 rooms.</p>
<h2>THE FORT CANNING NEIGHBORHOOD</h2>
<p>Fort Canning is one of Singapore’s most storied pieces of ground—a leafy, low-slung hill the local Malays once called Bukit Larangan, or Forbidden Hill, believed to hold the graves and palace of the island’s 14th-century rajas. Stamford Raffles built his residence here and planted the country’s first botanic garden on its slopes in 1822, decades before the hill took his successor Viscount Canning’s name. Today, it lures archaeology buffs and wedding photographers working the banyan-shaded lawns, and hotel guests who get all that history folded into a five-minute walk to Orchard Road. Clarke Quay with its haul of bars and restaurants is a brisk skip away, and the CBD a few minutes by cab, but the park itself, thick with rain trees and the chattering calls of unseen birds, does a convincing impression of the jungle Singapore used to be.</p>
<h2>THE FEEL</h2>
<p>The building’s more military chapters have been gently smudged away. What survives is a restored colonial shell with real presence: soaring ceilings, the old multi-columned facade, and a graceful patina that no amount of new plaster can quite erase. Designer Jeffrey Wilkes keeps the lofty interiors comparatively spare and warm-toned—pearly hues, earthy palettes, and clean lines, with the odd flash of brass. The crowd skews younger and more sociable than the archetypal Singapore luxury hotel guest.</p>
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<h2>GUEST QUARTERS</h2>
<p>Eighty-four rooms and suites run from a snug 35 square meters up to a grand 160-square-meter METT Suite, and spaciousness is the quiet MO throughout. The rooms worth angling for sprawl out on level two, where the original colonial ceiling heights survive intact and light pours generously through what were once open balconies, now enclosed as bathrooms—a clever bit of adaptive reuse that pairs heritage volume with modern plumbing. Furnishings stay understated and tactile, the building’s bones providing the visual flair.</p>
<h2>FOOD AND DRINK</h2>
<p>This is where METT throws its weight around, and does so with real flair. L’Amo Bistrò del Mare, the Dubai coastal-Italian import with a Due Forchette nod from Gambero Rosso, holds court on the ground floor with silky Sicilian red prawns, bottarga-dusted sea bass, pastas gilded with Japanese uni, caviar, and a 36-hour-marinated lamb chop sizzling off the Josper grill. Canning Bar &amp; Lounge doubles as all-day dining room and cocktail perch, its Colonial Old Fashioned and Canning Sling backed by a weekend Hilltop Afternoon Tea that trades the usual finger sandwiches for smoked eel, duck liver, and a nostalgic “After Eight” chocolate mint bar built on Valrhona dark. Sperindio’s Art di Daniele Sperindio and the Korean-grill concept HANU round out a dining roster with considerable ambition.</p>
<h2>WELLNESS FACTOR</h2>
<p>METT’s wellness pitch stretches well past the usual spa-and-steam-room script. Two outdoor pools—one framed by jungle views, a proper lap pool tucked just below—sit alongside padel and pickleball courts and a Technogym-fitted fitness center, while hotel guests get temporary membership at Madison House, the private club taking shape next door. Its centerpiece, The Longevity Suite—a European longevity clinic making its regional debut here—offers a hit of cryotherapy, hyperbaric oxygen, and biological-age assessments, with bespoke multiday retreats arriving through 2026. It’s biohacking, essentially, with a five-star finish and none of the term’s usual clinical chill.</p>
<h2>WHAT ELSE TO KNOW ABOUT METT Singapore?</h2>
<p>The hotel’s library deserves its own mention: an unusually sharp, well-thumbed collection of design and fashion titles, fiction and non-fiction alike, with tempting glass jars of chocs and gummies scattered about for good measure—a small, slightly cheeky touch for such a grand setting, and no one minds in the slightest. The 950-square-meter Grand Ballroom has already made METT a serious contender for Singapore weddings and galas, while the park outside remains one of the few places in the city where you can stand on the site of a vanished palace while marveling at the millennial skyline just beyond it.</p>
<p>Reviewed by <strong>Daven Wu</strong></p>
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