Originally Posted by
shuigao
The HGI is really several comfort notches down from the Conrad. Smaller rooms, no lounge, far smaller breakfast spread, no room upgrades. a decent distance from nearest MRT station. I would go so far as to say it's not worth the money unless the room rate is less than half that of the Conrad for your travel dates ... or if you would like to be in the middle of cultural Little India (instead of the more "sterile" locations of the Conrad or Hilton).
Originally Posted by
EGW1
Completely agree, I’ve stayed at both, and the HGI is definitely not comparable to the Conrad in pretty much any way. It’s not a bad hotel by any means, but for the purposes described, Conrad is the clear choice.
OK...the responses in this thread seem unanimous: I need to move my booking from HGI to Conrad!
The price is about double, but it's double in points and since I'm sitting on hundreds of thousands of points I might as well use them for a nice stays in Asia. The 5 nights after Singapore are going to be at Conrad Koh Samui, and then 3 after that at one of the nicer Hlltons in Bangkok.
Deluxe rooms are 59k/nt. Exec rooms are 71k/nt. Wonder if it's worth the extra points to have a shot at suites? Any thoughts on whether a King Suite or Twin Suite would be likelier as an upgrade? FIgure that could impact whether I select a twin or king room. We'll probably do one kid and one adult in each room so either bad type would be okay.