ocr: TRAVEL Spot the tiger... The oft-told tale ofthe tiger under the billiard ta- ble in the hotel must have been etched in the The hotel, des- minds of thousands throughout the world. ignated a natio- Maugham, for one, made three sojoums to the Raf- nal monument in fles Hotel-in1 1921, 1926 and 1959-and used to 1987, was closed spend his mornings sitting in the shade of a in March 1989 for frangipani tree in the garden, turning the bits of two years for a gossip and scandal overheard at dinner parties complete restora- into his famous stories. tion. The S$160 The allure of Rafles Hotel has notfad ...
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