Last night at the glittering annual Tatler Travel Awards ceremony in London, Orient-Express Hotels received the ultimate accolade of 'Best Hotel Group 2005'.
To add to this honour, six properties within the Orient-Express Hotels’ portfolio featured individually in the ‘101 Best Hotels’ category. In Europe, the legendary Hotel Cipriani in Venice was listed, alongside the 15th century former monastery, Villa San Michele in Florence and the timeless Hotel Splendido in Portofino. Further afield, the Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town, the Copacabana Palace in Rio and The Observatory Hotel in Sydney also scooped places in this highly coveted listing.
Orient-Express Hotels is a hotel and leisure company focused on the luxury end of the leisure market. The company’s 47 businesses include 37 hotels, 6 tourist trains, 2 river cruise businesses and 3 restaurants. All the properties owned by the company are highly individual and located in areas of outstanding cultural, historic or recreational interest.
