The very reason why people compare is indeed because different websites offer sometimes very different prices for hotel rooms. There is a plethora of reasons behind this phenomenon. Hotel rooms are often sold through a chain of multiple wholesalers and retailers, and by tapping into different inventories, and dealing with different channels, price differences will occur in the end. Another reason is that hotel sites control the margin they take on a specific room at a specific time, and this margin will also affect the final price.

The important thing to remember is that prices differ. Often they differ just a bit, but sometimes they do indeed differ by a large margin, and you don’t want to be stuck with that booking before finding out that it can be booked cheaper elsewhere.

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The Scarlet hotel is absolutely a unique find in Singapore. Hotels like these are hard to come by, and it is actually a surprise how affordable it is to stay here. True, it is a small hotel, and you will miss some of the amenities that come with the standard business hotel. But what you get back is more than worth it.

The entire hotel (and that includes the staff) follows a theme that is perhaps best described as 'vampire-glitter'. Red and black are the main color tones, while gold, crystal and glass mirrors add to the overall feel. The front desk and lobby staff walk around in matching uniforms, the most striking being the long black coats of the concierges.

The rooms are 5 start worthy, with luxury finishes and LCD tvs. As this is a quite new hotel you will find the quality of the fixtures to be of a high standard. The only gripe perhaps is the size of the rooms, and the lack of daylight in some of them. As the hotel is built in a series of shophouses, space is naturally limited, and this expresses itself in the size of most standard and deluxe rooms. Quite a few of them also have minimal natural lighting, either through a small window or a view through the diagonal roof in some cases.

All in all this is very worth dealing with, as the hotel offers a unique experience, and the overall quality of the rooms and the entire hotel is very good.

The location is not smack in the center of the city, but actually quite strategically towards the business district as well as Chinatown. The MRT is a stiff walking distance away. There are lots of little restaurants and bars in the immediate vicinity though, and the area has a name for small but high quality F&B options.