ORIENT-EXPRESS RECOGNIZED WORLDWIDE IN

07-22-2009

 

NEW YORK, NY (July 22, 2009) – Orient-Express is delighted to be featured prominently in Travel + Leisure magazine’s recently-announced “World’s Best Awards” 2009.  In the 14^th annual poll, readers select their favorite hotels, airlines, cruise lines, outfitters, cities, and islands around the globe.

 

Orient-Express' three safari camps in Botswana fared especially well, having each made their debut on the “Top 100 Hotels Overall.”  Eagle Island Camp, Khwai River Lodge and Savute Elephant Camp received rankings of #13, #44 and #75, respectively. Orient-Express properties also had good showings among the “Top City Hotels” in their regions, with Casa de Sierra Nevada taking the #2 spot for Mexico, Hotel Monasterio as #4 in Central and South America, and The Observatory Hotel taking #5 in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.

 

Please find below the full listing of all hotels by Orient-Express that made the list:

 

TOP 100 HOTELS OVERALL

 

#13 – Eagle Island Camp

#44 – Khwai River Lodge

#75 – Savute Elephant Camp

 

CONTINENTAL US AND CANADA

 

“Large City Hotels (100 rooms or more)”

#13 – Windsor Court

#22 – Charleston Place

 

MEXICO

 

“Resorts”

#11 – Maroma Resort & Spa

 

“City Hotels”

#2 – Casa de Sierra Nevada

 

CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA

 

“City Hotels”

#4 – Hotel Monasterio

 

EUROPE

 

“Resorts “

#7 – Hotel Caruso Belvedere

 

AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC

 

“Lodges and Resorts”

#3 – Lilianfels Blue Mountains Resort & Spa

 

“City Hotels”

#5 – The Observatory Hotel

 

AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

 

“Lodges and Resorts”

#7 - Eagle Island Camp

#16 - Khwai River Lodge

#21 – Savute Elephant Camp

 

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Orient-Express Hotels (www.orient-express.com) has offered exceptional luxury travel experiences since 1976, when the company first purchased Hotel Cipriani in Venice and then shortly afterwards, recreated the celebrated Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, which weekly, links London, Paris and Venice as well as other destinations.  Today, the company owns or part-owns and manages 50 businesses, 40 of which are highly acclaimed hotels that are each unique in style, from the Mount Nelson in Cape Town and Rio’s Copacabana Palace, to the Grand Hotel Europe in St. Petersburg and Maroma Resort & Spa on Mexico’s Riviera Maya.  There are two restaurants, including ‘21’ in New York, two river cruise operations and six tourist trains.  Orient-Express prides itself on providing the ultimate in luxury and service for its guests, in some of the world’s most magical locations.

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