Village Residence Robertson Quay in Singapore

Recommend avoid.
We stayed in a studio for 9 days. That the decor is very dated (feels like a 1990s building and rooms in an area that is hip and snazzy) is still forgivable although it makes for very poor value. The only reason to be here is location, which is great.
The main issue is that the premise conducts regular pesticide fogging which technically should just affect only the exterior. We had all the windows closed to keep the cool aircon air in. However one day they decided to fog the trash chute chimney. This resulted in the pesticide fog coming out of the trash chute (located in the kitchen) and the kitchen fogged up. This got so bad it triggered the smoke alarm. My husband had to get into a smoky pesticide filled room to open the windows (even though they were still fogging outside), then stand on a chair to manually turn off the smoke detector. We were lucky that the kitchen doors were closed because otherwise the fog would get into the apartment, which would be a disaster since the none of the windows in the apartment can be opened (they have handles but are sealed shut). Worse still, this incident resulted in everything in the kitchen being coated with pesticide, including our electric toothbrushes which were charging in the kitchen because they don't have electric sockets in the bathroom. All the cups, everything that we had washed and the pots and pans were coated.
I requested the front desk to get housekeeping to come and clean the kitchen and they agreed. When we returned in the evening, it turned out that housekeeping had refused to clean the kitchen because they don't do any washing of cups, pots and pans or floor (everything not in the cupboards were clean, just had pesticide all over) during a resident's stay.
As anyone knows, pesticide is extremely toxic and should not be anywhere near items that contact the skin or mouth. So this is shocking and disappointing. Thank goodness we only had to tolerate the horrible circumstances for 2 days before leaving.
Overall this is unacceptable and I think that anybody staying in this complex needs to consider that their kitchens may be coated in toxic pesticides (unclear whether they clean an entire kitchen after every checkout) given how often fogging is conducted in Singapore.

We've picked this place only because we were booking late for F1 Race and now I understand why it wasn't fully booked like the rest of Downtown Singapore hotels:
- its old! And I mean really OLD!
- look at the pictures yourself, place is completely trashed by previous guests
- supposedly no smoking, but stinks very much opposite
- management is completely ridiculous! There was NO ELECTRICITY for 2 DAYS and you know what they responded on when we asked for at least partial discount? NO!