The renovation project is delayed. It was supposed to be completed by now but only the public spaces and the first four floors are completed. The ETA for the total room redone is sometime in 2013. I will have a peek of the new rooms tomorrow and will post a video and photos at some point.

if you are going to stay here using points in sometime in the next 12 months, it probably would be wise to do the booking asap. The BAR nowadays is whopping $668 but the point requirement is still 25K per night for cat 5. I would say that it is likely that this will move to cat 6 or 7 soon. This was the very first time I used points here.