Very helpful and personable hotel staff. Great little breakfast buffet. Good WiFi. Clean rooms. Located between two MRT stations, so easy access to everywhere. Surrounded by a tremendous variety of food and shopping, ranging from upscale to the local ethnic markets. Out the door to the left if you want to walk the streets of Little India; to the right if you want modern Singapore. I have stayed at a variety of hotels in Singapore and around the world. When in Singapore, my wife and I usually stay at the Perak because it offers the right combination of value, comfort, and interesting surroundings.

The best thing about it is the location, great indian food nearby and I loved visiting the different indian temples. We asked for a quiet room and the small superior room seemed quiet by day (Friday afternoon). At night the booming beats of an indian dance club were too audible, we might have checked it out, but needed to catch a flight the next early morning...

Then I noticed this bug, thought it looks like a bed bug, sure enough it was one and we found more...
We got a transfer to the basement room, which was less noisy and had no bed bugs.
We still had a hard time falling asleep triple checked on bugs and it was still noisy until at least 2 am. I did only hear once noise from the building site, which was about ten meters up the road, but it is pretty close...

The breakfast was very simple continental. Did not check the internet, but a guy was trying for an hour to get the wireless connection to work (in the breakfast room near the modem). Anyways, now I know how bed bugs look like and I was lucky enough to notice them before we fell asleep.

Having just stayed two nights in a suite in the Nirwana Beach Hotel in Bintan, Indonesia, our initial reaction to our deluxe triple room in the Perak Hotel was not very positive. The room was cramped with a double, a single and a baby cot. We stayed in room 302 which is the biggest room they have. My husband had to do some work an a presentation he was doing the next day and was worried that the room would not be conducive to this with two adults, one child and a baby all cooped up together, the only alternative would be that we would all have to go out of the day and leave him alone to get on with it. However, the staff were extremely helpful and suggested that he worked downstairs in their lobby area after breakfast had been packed away. They made sure he could work undisturbed on his laptop and he had no problems with the WiFi connection in the lobby although we did have connection problems in our room.

You won't get a huge buffet breakfast with 'live cooking stations' and a selection of food from every corner of the globe like you do in higher grade hotel but you will get an adequate selection of bread, pandan cakes, cereal, eggs, noodles, beans, cheese, that kind of thing. I suggested that they varied the selection a bit though for people staying for more than a couple of nights need a bit of variety.

The real bonus is the location. A plus point if you love Indian food, you can dine on delicious curries until the early hours of the morning. If you like to wash it down with a pint of 2 of cask ale, The Prince of Wales pub does some great beers off the pump. A real bonus for curry loving, ale loving Brits like us.

Yes, the staff on the desk did seem a bit concerned that we weren't paying up front and I'm not used to doing this when checking into a hotel, but they certainly weren't rude of standoffish to us.

We had gone to Singapore for work for a few days. The rooms were literally a hole in the wall. I still wonder how they managed to fit 2 single beds, a TV, a fridge and a table into that size of a room. The location wasn't that great either. It was located in the middle of Little India which is one of the dirtiest ares in Singapore. The breakfast buffet was limited but good. Otherwise the room was clean and neat. The service at the front desk was TERRIBLE. The receptionist, after checking us in, told us to carry our own luggage to the room! there were no bell boys or any sort of house keeping!!