This is where Taylor Swift stayed in Singapore, and it just got better

So, how long did Taylor Swift stay here?

“She was in Singapore for 10 days,” comes the pointedly vague answer. Staff at Capella Singapore Sentosa won’t actually confirm that the pop superstar stayed at the property during her six-concert tour of the Asian city-state in March last year.

One of the two colonial manors at Capella Singapore Sentosa.

However, we know that this is where she stayed because the local newspaper, The Straits Times, followed her motorcade from the airport to the Sentosa Island resort (surprising some after there were expectations she would stay at the renowned – and enormous – Marina Bay Sands).

The luxury property, featuring 113 rooms, sits on 30 acres of rainforest and is set just across the road from Sentosa’s Palawan Beach.

But it was no standard hotel room for the biggest name in pop. Not even one of the property’s 38 private villas (at more than $2100 a night) could cut it. Instead, Swift reportedly stayed in one of Capella’s three manors – three-bedroom private residences featuring everything a billionaire could need: more than 500 square metres of space, a private pool, vintage artworks, and a “manor culturist” host who can arrange private yoga classes, spa treatments, music and art therapy, cooking classes and more.

One of three bedrooms inside a colonial manor.

Swift reportedly stayed in one of the two “colonial manors”, spaces converted from former quarters of the British Royal Artillery and built in the 1880s. Guests enter the two-storey buildings on the upper level, where the bedrooms (each with its own en suite) are located, and step into an open central space with a staircase leading down to the six-seater dining table. There’s a separate lounge and study space, an outdoor dining area with a barbecue, and a plunge pool.

Taylor Swift reportedly spent 10 days at a colonial manor.

In the wake of Swift’s visit, all three manors have undergone an interior refresh.

The largest, the Capella Manor, was done by Melbourne’s Simone Haag, whose body of work includes a series of residences across Melbourne and Sydney’s well-to-do suburbs, along with the resort’s Australian sister property, Capella Sydney. The manor features both vintage and custom commissioned artworks and furnishings (including two Swedish wooden chairs that are almost 100 years old), along with earthy wallpaper and fabrics aimed at reflecting the rainforest environment.

The Capella Manor’s interiors were redesigned by Melbourne’s Simone Haag.

The colonial manor interiors, meanwhile, were designed local firm MSDO, which aimed to reflect the transient, global nature of the guests by including things like vintage maps and an eclectic mix of furnishings from all over the world.

And the price? $30,000 Singapore dollars ($A35,000) a night for the Capella Manor or, if that’s too pricey, just $25,000 Singapore dollars a night for a colonial manor.

Beyond the price range of most of us, but for Swift, who reportedly received a $2 million-$3 million incentive from the Singaporean government to make the city her only tour stop in South-East Asia, it’s an expense that’s easily shaken off.

See capellahotels.com

The writer stayed (not in a manor) as a guest of Capella Singapore Sentosa and TravMedia.