Pyongyang’s Yanggakdo Hotel this week reopened for business following several months of renovations, photos posted online by the Koryo Tours travel company showed on Friday.

The renovations, unveiled days before the city is set to host the annual Pyongyang Marathon and ahead of the April 15 “Day of the Sun” holiday, have seen the hotel upgrade much of its front lobby as well as several of its bars and cafes.

“Basically everything in the lobby is still where it was; cloakroom, bar, telecoms centre, etc but it’s all been resurfaced and made shiny and new,” Koryo Tours General Manager Simon Cockerell told