Tower Club Singapore Turns 30 Next Year, and Its Penthouse Is No Longer Only for Members
On 27 January 2027, Tower Club Singapore marks 30 years since it was founded. For most of that time the club has been a business address first: a place for client lunches, deal dinners and after-work whisky, more than 60 floors above Raffles Place.
That is still the main picture. But the club also takes banquet and wedding bookings, and that side of the business has become one of the few ways for people outside the membership to see the view from the top of Republic Plaza.
Thirty Years at the Top of Republic Plaza
The club occupies the penthouse of Republic Plaza, the 66-storey tower at 9 Raffles Place. When the building officially opened in January 1998, it shared the title of Singapore’s tallest building, at 280 metres, with UOB Plaza One and One Raffles Place.
That shared record held for almost two decades, until Guoco Tower in Tanjong Pagar went higher in 2016. For most of Tower Club’s history, very few rooms in the city looked down on it.
The club’s own structure has changed little. It offers individual, corporate and transferable memberships, and members get reciprocal access to more than 200 affiliated clubs worldwide through the International Associate Clubs network. Business networking remains the core of what it sells.
What has changed is who writes about it. In its July 2026 issue, Expat Living ran a feature on the club’s restaurants, which are spread across levels 62 to 64 and look out over Marina Bay. The piece read less like a members’ newsletter and more like a restaurant review.
Three Floors, Three Very Different Rooms
Each floor of the penthouse runs its own kitchen and its own mood. That matters more for an event than for a business lunch.
Atlantic, on Level 62, is the European dining room. It has a main hall, four private dining suites and a degustation menu that needs advance booking. Its current dinner draw is a 1.3kg tomahawk steak meant for two to four people, priced at $99.
Ba Xian, one floor up on Level 63, serves Cantonese food. The Peking duck is the dish members order most, with the meat cooked a second way at no extra charge. On Saturdays it runs a dim sum lunch from 11.30am to 2.30pm.
Straits Bar sits at the top on Level 64. It has a cigar room, a broad whisky list, afternoon tea with Bacha Coffee, happy hour from Monday to Saturday between 5pm and 8pm, and live music on weekdays. The view runs out across the water toward the South China Sea.
For a wedding, that layout offers something a single hotel ballroom cannot. In principle, a couple could hold a Chinese banquet at Ba Xian and then move guests up to Straits Bar for drinks, all without leaving the building.
Whether that works on a given date depends on what the club will release. Members still come first, and the dining rooms do not close for a private event simply because one is requested.
How Couples Actually Get Through the Door
Tower Club is still a private club. It accepts banquet and wedding bookings, but under event procedures written for members and their clients, and cancellation fees apply if a private dining booking is dropped inside the stated notice period.
In practice, most couples without a membership reach the club through someone who has one. That can be a parent, an employer with a corporate membership, or one of the wedding planners who hold a membership and book on their clients’ behalf. Couples who want info about getting married at Tower Club in singapore, such as capacity, rooms and how bookings work, can find it gathered in venue guides.
Current wedding listings put the workable range at roughly 15 to 150 guests. That size suits a certain kind of wedding: close family and friends, rather than every colleague and distant relative. A club dining room also does not come with the minimum table counts that many hotel ballrooms set.
There are practical quirks. Guests reach the penthouse through the Tower 1 lift lobby of Republic Plaza, which connects to Raffles Place MRT, and on a weekend the streets around it are quiet. Arrival is easy, but many guests will never have been inside a private club and may not know what to expect.
As the club heads into its fourth decade, the view is the same one that sold memberships in 1997. The difference now is that some of the people looking at it are there for a wedding rather than a board dinner.
