'Like family': Hotel Miramar staff reflect on decades of friendship, memories before final goodbye

Răzvan Botea

Slightly more than a quarter of the hotel’s 108 staff members have worked at the hotel for over a decade. SINGAPORE: In 1973, two years after Hotel Miramar opened along Havelock Road, a 17-year-old Florence Tan started work there as a room attendant. It was a big year for tourism in the island nation: Singapore was hosting the 1973 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games for the first time, the Singapore Zoological Gardens held its official opening, and officials announced that Singapore had reached