We arrived late at night. We decided to see a different area of Singapore. Our last stay was the Four Seasons on Orchard Rd. Big Mistake. We were first taken to our room in the Heritage wing, the corridor leading into the room smelled really bad with something like petrol or diesel fumes. When entering our room it was really strong in there and also a really bad old mouldy musty smell. We rang reception to see if we could change rooms. I asked the man that came to show us to our new room if there were newer rooms ( I assumed maybe the heritage wing was older). he just laughed at me an didnt answer. He took us to another room - opened the door and just left. We went in and found ourselves in a worse room than before. It smelt like really strong urine. Really disgusting . We decided as it was just one night and it was so late that we would have to put up with it. We brewed coffee in the room to try to mask the smell, had a shower and went to bed.W hen we got up in the morning we decided to try to pack up and get out of there. So I had a shower and felt something stinging on the back of my leg behind my knee. I saw what looked like an insect on my leg and scratched it , leaving the head attached to me. I realised that it was a tick. Yes - a TICK. It was not attached the night before as I had a shower and put cream on my legs so it definately came from the room. Hotel told me to go to Raffles clinic to get a Doctor to remove it. Not realising that The Raffles Clinic was actually like an ER and patients were triaged so I sat for hours waiting with people with COVID until they said that I wouldnt be seen for at least 2 hours. So I missed my only day in Singapore and basically had to pack and go to the airport. Hotel did not offer any room discount - but a car to the airport. So I had to fly back to Sydney with a tick head in my leg. My Dr in Australia removed it and gave me a tetanus - just in case. Not what you expect from a 5 star hotel.
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