Wanderlust

Ever consider staying at a hotel around Singapore’s Little India? Unless you are born with Indian-descent on your blood or traveling last-minute on peak season (read: in time of the overrated The Great Singapore Sale), staying there is not an option.

But the newly-opened Wanderlust will redefine your mindset of Little India’s hotel.

Owned by lawyer-turned-hotelier, Loh Lik Peng, Wanderlust occupy former space of 1920s Singapore school in Dickson Road. With his deep fond in design, Peng transformed the old building into an edgy and hip boutique hotel and opened it early August this year.

Wanderlust features a well-crafted design collaboration between four awards-winning design firms; DP Architects, Phunk Studio, Asylum Creative, and fFurious. Each firm designed one dedicated level of this 29 rooms-hotel.

Asylum Creative created a glam industrial looks for the hotel lobby and casual French restaurant, Cocotte. Upstairs, Phunk Studio designed first floor which features mono-colored rooms with neon sign of related color song title on the wall. Second floor is the playground for DP Architect with their minimalist black and white design concept. Meanwhile fFurios took charge for designing third floor with a giant typewriter-shaped sofa as the highlight.

With its fresh and hip design, Wanderlust has gain popularity among design-conscious traveler in less than a year since its opening. It also has become the trendiest boutique hotel in the island of Singapore. As the name suggest, Wanderlust is now truly the cause of our wanderlust. (PR)