Newly renovated Grand Hyatt Singapore’s wild hidden details

Visiting the brand-new additions to this luxury hotel, I stumbled across some jaw-dropping details that taught me it pays to be nosy.

Working out on holiday: If you’re anything like me, you pack with the best of intentions, then return home and sheepishly take your untouched gym gear out of your suitcase and put it back in your drawer.

Next time, I think to myself … every damn time.

But the very newly renovated gym and wellness space at Grand Hyatt Singapore is seriously impressive, and incredibly – perhaps because it’s still all so new – it’s still something of a well-kept secret the hotel itself isn’t even boasting about.

On a recent stay at the Grand Hyatt, I decided to counteract the expansive effects of the hotel’s overwhelmingly stacked breakfast buffet (laksa station? Sure! Yakult tower? Why not!) and actually use the gym gear I’d packed for once.

Does your gym come with marble benchtops?

The luxe change rooms.

Talk about luxury: marble and leather finishes everywhere, and dozens of machines (all, at time of writing, very much brand new, with the gym having only opened weeks earlier).

Further surprises awaited me when I wandered into the change rooms to use the bathroom. Now, surely there’s not big demand for a change room at a hotel gym – you’d just go upstairs to your room to shower, right?

And yet this is a cavernous space, home to – wait for it – a full infared sauna, steam room and hydrotherapy pool, all free for hotel guests to use.

The brand new infared sauna.

A marble hydrotherapy pool – heaven after a workout.

I was shocked. There was no mention of any of this on the hotel’s website, and the in-room guide said the entire fitness area was still “coming soon.” Had my bladder not sent me to the change rooms in the first place I never would’ve known I had my own personal day spa on tap.

And it pays to be nosy: I ended up visiting the spa and sauna twice during my stay, and saw precisely one other person enjoying the facilities while I was there (not bad odds for a 699-room hotel).

If gyms and spas aren’t your thing, further surprises reveal themselves as you wander the Grand Hyatt’s grounds.

The Grand Hyatt's wellness pool.

Rooms come with a distinctive daybed, with windows on three sides.

The hotel opens out to a tropical oasis more akin to an island resort than an inner city hotel: Winding ivy-enclosed paths lead to two giant pools (one has a wellness focus with various bubbly, massagey spots to sit) sit in lush, leafy gardens, with various lounges and daybeds to set yourself up for a long afternoon (and they’ve really thought of everything, installing discreet buzzers at every lounge so you can summon service. I could get very used to this).

All this is enough to draw you out of your hotel room... were it not for one lush detail featured in the rooms on site. As well as Kingsize beds that feel even wider than they are long, many rooms also feature light-filled daybeds, jutting out of the building and with floor-to-ceiling windows on three sides.

The writer stayed as a guest of Grand Hyatt Singapore