And that's the danger of fiddling with their working business model and trying for the designer / artists concept version of "upscale". If you had a working business model would you shut the door and declare "we're going for a new look and concept because semi-famous designer XX says it's the thing to do"? And by the way, he's not the owner but he gets paid either way.
We still haven't had our reservation cancelled yet for end of June early July which we booked before this
Looking up prices and thinking about them too much is probably a complete waste of time. Nothing is going to be accurate/real until it actually happens.