The Rosedon hotel is to build on its success after being nominated by an international hotel guide in their 'Most Outstanding Hotel Award' category.

The Pitt's Bay Road hotel is planning to upgrade six luxury rooms this winter into top class Royal rooms.

They will be equipped with wooden floors, four-poster beds, Jacuzzis, VCRs, Internet and CD Players.

The hotel's public rooms and every guest room will also be redecorated.

General Manager Muriel Richardson said: "It's a huge project for a small hotel."

She said the final figures for the renovation had not been worked out but it was a "tidy sum".

Last winter the hotel added four new Royal rooms which were well received with the public.

And the work obviously caught the eye of the judges at Conde Nast Johansens' Recommended Hotel Guides who ranked the Rosedon in the top three outstanding hotels in the North America, Bermuda, Caribbean and Pacific region.

Although the Rosedon lost out to The Sutton Place Hotel, of Chicago, Illinois for top spot Ms Richardson said to be nominated at all was an honour.

She said: "I was shocked we had been nominated. We didn't know we were being inspected and many of their users wrote in about the hotel.

"I was delighted, honoured and pleased. It's quite a coup for this small property in Bermuda to be recognised by an international publisher."

Ms Richardson attended the award ceremony at the Dorchester on behalf of the hotel's 30 odd staff who she paid tribute to for its success, along with the owners for having the vision to invest.

She said: "It was a wonderful night and great to be up there with the best."

She said the Conde Nast nomination put the hotel in the top four percent of hotels it recommended.

She said: "It's great for the Rosedon and it's great for Bermuda."