Trivia
- Raffles Hotel is reputedly where the sole surviving wild tiger in Singapore was shot and made extinct. Some stories place this event in the Long Bar. The hotel management claims the tiger escaped from enclosure at a nearby "native show" and was chased underneath the hotel's Bar & Billiard Room (a raised structure) and shot to death there on 13 August 1902.
- Raffles Hotel is where the Singapore Sling was invented. The cocktail was invented by bartender Ngiam Tong Boon between 1910 and 1915.
- The site of the hotel was originally the location of the oldest girls' school in Singapore (1842), which has now become St. Margaret's Primary School and St. Margaret's Secondary School. It was founded by Maria (Tarn) Dyer, the missionary wife of Samuel Dyer.
- The Long Bar is featured in Peace Arch Entertainment's "UberGuide" television travel series as one of the top ten bars in the world.
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