HDB residents kept awake by noisy guests at hotel’s pool

The view from the master bedroom of Ms Ethel Chong’s eighth-storey flat, which overlooks V Hotel’s pool. She said she has been woken up once or twice a week by noise from there. — ST PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG By Tay Suan Chiang

Ms Ethel Chong has an unobstructed view of a swimming pool from her master bedroom.

But it is not quite a sought-after ‘pool view’. It is not even her pool. It belongs to the recently opened V Hotel, which is less than 10m away from her HDB block at Jellicoe Road.

Ms Chong, a part-time tutor, wrote to The Straits Times Forum page last week to complain about rowdy guests at the pool area who kept her awake at night. Her five-room flat on the eighth storey overlooks the pool of the 15-storey hotel, which sits on top of Lavender MRT Station.

‘I have been woken up late once or twice a week for the past few months by the noise. It is difficult to get back to sleep once woken up,’ Ms Chong, 40, told The Straits Times.