Loading ...Here goes..this hotel is located opp. Meridien at somerset. I think alot of you should notice it. Its opp. the istana also. The building if u see it is dark and spooky. There will be a guard standing at the entrance. I have always wondered why this hotel was never demolished although it has been there for decades, abandoned. I was intrested in what actually went on there. A friend of mine from the hotel industry, told me this story. There was this eurasian couple who had their second honeymoon there.
They were quite old at that time. Maybe in their forties. Anyway word has it that they had a huge quarrel and the wife went back to her homeland leaving the husband here.
The husband being very distraught with the wife leaving, jumped to his death at the hotel itself.
Management has been said to have blocked that room. But as years got by and “things” never did occur they decided to open it back to guests.
The unfortunante guests who moved in after it was opened happened to be a family of 4. The boy was found in the bathtub drowned. Nobody knows how it happened or why.(at this time my hair starts to stand…)
Well..after that the room was immediately blocked. But the floor wasn’t. The other rooms on the floor were still opened to guests.
Management begin to receive complaints of having seen an old man and a drenched boy holding hands at the doorway everytime they left their rooms and came back. They were always there in the doorway..not doing anything….just standing there looking at whoever who walked past….this story was done in an episode of the Incredible Tales.
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Called Hotel De L’Europe then, it used to be owned by a Dutchman. It was at one time frequented by the crew and passengers of Dutch airline KLM, which gave rise to its nickname.
The Cockpit name became official in 1960.
In 1972, the present 13-storey structure was built by Indonesian businessman Hoo Liong Thing as an extension to the old one, which had been around since 1947. The old mansion was pulled down a decade later.
In 1980, Hongkong jeweller Kevin Hsu bought the hotel for $45 million. He, in turn, sold it to hotelier Teo Lay Swee for $62 million in 1983.
When the Raffles Hotel closed for renovations in 1989, about 60 long-serving staff moved over to the Cockpit, as did the recipe for the Singapore Sling.
The 200-room building was bought by a Wing Tai-led group last year. It now stands vacant while awaiting work into a residential and commercial project.”
The new apartment is built.
Nothing wrong with the hotel just that it was old and small. It probably did not adhere to the current fire safety codes.
Very common dude.
Remember Marco Polo? Imperial Hotel? Equatorial Hotel? All torn down. And yes, they stood empty for a time too.
The return for investment for a hotel can take decades.
If you want stories with a lot of deaths, there are places in Singapore with a longer history and bloody history too.
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