Remember the Strand Hotel?
It’s been about six months since the colonial-era structure shut down on May 1 for extensive renovations.
But it’s set to reopen next month, Travel Daily Media reported.
The reopening date of November 15 means the Strand will meet its six-month timeframe announced earlier this year.
The new look of the more than 115-year-old hotel is a contemporary twist on the original style that graced Strand Road in downtown Yangon when Armenian hoteliers the Sarkies brothers opened the hotel in 1901.
Guests and visitors may notice more of a change in veneer and interior design than anything structural, although there will be a pool and the bar will look a little glitzier.
The Strand is a fixture of Yangon life and has been for quite some time.
Famous writers such as George Orwell and W. Somerset Maugham stayed there. But under the military junta that ruled Myanmar from 1962, the hotel was neglected until a major renovation in the early 1990s that took three years.
It was the last time until now that the Strand underwent a renovation.
