Gateway Hotel Review and Pictures by Mr.Daniel Jaworski

I stayed at the Gateway hotel during a business trip in February 2006. It is located on Joo Chiat Road which is bit away from the downtown area of Singapore. This caused no problem though as the MRT (Paya Lebar station) is just a short walk away. From there its just three stations into the downtown area where you can find the famous Orchard Road. Now the Gateway hotel offers quality accommodation for very reasonable rates. I have to say that I had a positive opinion about the service in this hotel. The manager of the hotel greeted me personally when I checked into the hotel and employees were very friendly and helped me with every request that I had throughout my stay. The room I stayed in was on the third floor and had a king size bed in it. As I requested a king size I had to take a room that didn’t have windows but this case counts only for some rooms of the hotel. This was no problem at all. I found the room spacious for this class and everything was clean. You have coffee and tea making facilities in addition to the complimentary water bottles that every guest gets. Light and air conditioning is controlled through a buttonset on the wall. One close to the door and another one close to the bed so I was able to control everything fro my bed. There were an abundance of international TV channels available that was very good. I was able to watch numerous sports channels with European and American sports and the available movie channels seemed to provide decent and up to date films. One thing to note: I found it quite interesting to see the Gateway’s parking lot. Actually there is no space for an extra parking so they installed this multilevel elevator into the ground on the back of the hotel. Quite amazing to watch 4 levels of cars coming out of the ground. I have not seen one of those before. Overall I would rate this hotel as a good choice when on a smaller budget with friendly and attentive service and clean and well sized rooms in addition to having the MRT very close by.