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I understand your concern about your booking and the lack of room to leave comments and questions. That’s one of the reasons I started this site.

Resorts are not forthcoming with the latest information about any ongoing renovations other then presenting the sketches and pictures of the finished renovations.

I just got off the phone with somebody close within The Aruban and asked a few questions about the renovations.

From what I understand there are no major structural renovations ongoing at this point, only cosmetic. This means that the rooms are being upgraded by taking out the old hardware and putting in brand new hardware.

In regards to the bad reviews about this resort, in all fairness many of them are (were?) accurate. Not enough was done to maintain the resort accordingly in the last few years due to issues between the previous owners.

The new owner however seems to be taking care of things forcefully. For instance the main pool area is reopening tomorrow and it is looking very nicely. Right now the rooms that are being fixed are the one and two bedroom-suites. I don’t know if the room you booked is going to be the ones that are already finished.

To recap, there are no construction cranes on the premises and the noise level is supposed to be minimal.

If you need more information please post a follow-up question.