Mitchell C. Hochberg Appointed to the Board of Orient-Express Hotels Ltd.

HAMILTON, Bermuda - Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. (NYSE: OEH) (www.orient-express.com), owners and operators of 50 deluxe leisure properties in 25 countries, today announced that Mitchell C. Hochberg has been elected to the Board of Directors at the Company’s Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on June 5, 2009.

Mr. Hochberg has been the Managing Principal of Madden Capital LLC, a real estate investment, development and advisory firm since March 2007, having joined from Ian Schrager Company, a developer and manager of innovative luxury hotels and residential projects in the United States, where he was President and Chief Operating Officer.

Prior to this, Mr. Hochberg founded, and for 20 years, was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Spectrum Communities and its successor, developers of luxury home communities in the north eastern United States.

Mr. Hochberg is a lawyer and a certified public accountant.

This brings to eight the members of Orient-Express Hotels’ Board of Directors, the others are: James B. Hurlock, Chairman, John D. Campbell, Prudence M. Leith, J. Robert Lovejoy, Georg R. Rafael, James B. Sherwood and Paul M. White, President and Chief Executive Officer.

Orient-Express, (www.orient-express.com) the name behind an elite collection of travel experiences first came into being in 1883 as one of the world’s most exciting and indulgent train journeys. Today those same two evocative words also embrace hotels, cruises and other luxury rail adventures. The Company 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. Today, the company owns or part-owns and manages 50 businesses, 40 of which are highly acclaimed hotels, 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 luxury tourist trains.

Contact: Martin O’Grady Vice President, Chief Financial Officer Tel: +44-20-7921-4038 E: martin.ogrady@orient-express.com Pippa Isbell Vice President, Corporate Communications Tel: +44-20-7921-4065 E: pippa.isbell@orient-express.com

Source: Orient-Express Hotels Ltd

Contact: Martin O’Grady, Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Tel: +44-20-7921-4038, E: martin.ogrady at orient-express.com; Pippa Isbell, Vice President, Corporate Communications, Tel: +44-20-7921-4065, E: pippa.isbell at orient-express.com