Given the website, I was optimistic about this place but not too hopeful. I was so pleasantly surprised that I'm writing my first TripAdvisor review. I usually stay in the city at places like RitzCarlton but thought I would go for a change of scene.

It's a great change from staying in the city and looking out at roads and buildings. There is a beach literally five mins walk, a rooftop pool from which you can watch the planes land at Changi and a hawker stall (great local food) across the road. Not your usual Singapore experience.

The rooms have a really nice feel, and the food is great.

Would definitely stay here again.

As many would say, the hotel is no where near the airport. A good 15 min by taxi would be needed. However I find the location very good for people who work near the changi business area or Loyang industrial zone. Hotel is very good, rooms are great as well, not much difference between superior and deluxe. Rooftop Pool is excellent, you can also glimpse aircrafts landing at changi int'.

As I was arriving at 2am, and leaving 2 nights later, at 4am, I looked for places close to the airport with decent reviews. At the time I booked, this was about it. We arrived, as scheduled at 2am, only to find out the hotel had no reservation for us (it was cancelled somehow). Fortunately they did give us the rate we had previously agreed to. As another note, my TA emailed this hotel 3 times to confirm, and never got any response. (unlike the other 3 hotels I stayed at in this East Asia Trip). We booked a superior room, and when we arrived to the room, my parched husband opened up the mini bar fridge for a water only to find it empty. (By now it is 2.45am.) He called to the front desk , to be told that "superior rooms don-t have mini bars". This was a first!

So he did order a water via room service.... but it just left us with a negative impression.

the room is decorated in a very IKEA style. The shuttle to the airport operated pretty efficiently.

I wouldn't stay there again as it was a real let-down relative to the other places we stayed at.

This hotel is located in Changi Village in SIngapore, at the eastern extremity of the island. Not far from Changi Airport, it is far removed from the bright lights of the city. There is no MRT station nearby, which means those who want to go shopping in the city need to take a taxi or depend on the bus service.

It is the only hotel in Changi village, which is an enclave of Singapore that seems to be wilfully sundered from the rest of the island, not physically but metaphorically. It seems like the shiny development projects that have engulfed most of Singapore have stopped at the threshold of this village.

The hotel is a modern structure and really quite out of place in what
is otherwise - for Singapore - a fairly quaint setting. An earlier incarnation endowed the hotel with coloured balconies, so that is one
of the first things you notice - these pastel coloured glass balconies, as if some artist once passed through here and had a benign hangover when he was decorating the hotel.

There are lovely old trees around the hotel. In fact it exudes an atmosphere of peace and quiet, and the verdant surroundings are somewhat at odds with the structure itself.

I think the hotel had some problems in trying to characterise themselves, but it now comes across as a contemporary business hotel where it may once have favoured itself as a retreat of sorts.

The rooms are done in the sort of pale-wood decor with pretenstions to avant-garde, such as a glass window between the bathroom and the main bedroom, and wicker-lampshades. Overall, the effect is not harmonious. Otherwise the room is quite comfortable if entirely too cold, even with the airconditioning turned off!

The gym on the 5th floor is better equipped than you'd expect, but there are too many signs of inconsistent maintenance around the hotel. One of these are the dead plants that coil around wire frames in the inner courtyard, another is chipped paint on some of the feature walls in the lift lobbies.

In other ways though, the hotel does distinguish itself; the swimming pool has a glass side and chic patterned blue tiles; the main lounge has sunlight filtering into it from glass panels overhead and the view from the glass-panelled elevators of the overall atrium is cosy, if not impressive.

This is a nice hotel to come to to get away from the city, for a retreat of sorts. I think the hotel may have gone through several incarnations, ending up with an odd blend of the mediocre and quite classy, so it's difficult to place it in terms of a star-rating or even of a consistent purpose.

Around it is the delightful, or terribly quotidian, depending on your inclination, village itself, with a wet market, shophouse restaurants selling inexpensive food. Nearby are holiday bungalows of the civil service, which goes some way to explain why Changi Village is what it is, and the beach, and an impressive (for Singapore) wooded area, that you quickly realise is an isolated tract preserved to provide the setting to the holiday chalets where Singapore's presumably frazzled civil servants come to unwind.

The Changi board walk, which hugs the beach, is a welcome, if entirely too short, distraction, but here, at the Changi Village hotel, it is possible, if for a short while, to forget the burgeoning pressures of 21st century city living.