Singapore's Park Hotel Orchard to be given makeover

SINGAPORE – Park Hotel Orchard, on Singapore’s best-known shopping thoroughfare, will be rebranded as Grand Park Orchard after a major renovation.

Park Hotel Orchard will close from April 1 to facilitate the renovations.

When it reopens as Grand Park Orchard in the second quarter of 2010, the five-star property will become the flagship hotel of the Park Hotel Group hospitality chain.

Grand Park Orchard will launch with 309 rooms and suites and a four-storey retail podium.

“The new Grand Park Orchard will be an iconic landmark on Orchard Road,” said Allen Law, director of Park Hotel Group.

“We will transform the existing hotel into a fashionable icon by dressing it up with a dramatic new façade and at the same time featuring a media wall of unparalleled scale in the region.”