Exhibit 99


           Strengthened Management Structure at Orient-Express Hotels

HAMILTON, Bermuda, September 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Orient-Express Hotels
Ltd. (NYSE: OEH) (http://www.orient-express.com), owners or part-owners and
managers of 50 luxury hotel, restaurant, tourist train and river cruise
properties operating in 25 countries, today announced changes to its management
structure, designed to strengthen the senior team to serve the needs of the
business going forward.

Filip Boyen, formerly Vice President, Operations has been named Chief Operating
Officer. Boyen has been with the company since 1997 and served as general
manager in Bora Bora; regional managing director in Peru; and as Vice President
for Africa, Australasia and Latin America. He has hotel operating experience in
Russia, Indian Ocean, South Africa and Turkey. Nine regional managing directors
report to Boyen, who also takes on responsibility for the Company's Asian hotels
and trains and cruises on the retirement of Nick Varian, Chief Development
Officer, at the end of 2009. Key among his tasks in this new role are service
and operating quality assurance and on-property delivery of the standards
required as the Company rolls out its new brand strategy.

Phillip Gesue, who joined the Company in March of this year as Director of
Global Real Estate is named Vice President, Real Estate. His initial focus has
been on the construction and sales strategy of Orient-Express' marina
development, Porto Cupecoy on the Dutch side of St Martin, West Indies,
scheduled for completion later this year. He also oversees the Company's
existing real estate activities, including those in New York; Charlottesville,
Virginia; St Martin in the West Indies - the Villas at La Samanna; and Mexico.

Gesue was formerly with Time Equities, a Manhattan-based national real estate
investor where he was Director of Acquisitions and Development. His background
is in real estate finance, acquisitions and development and he was personally
involved in the development and acquisition of over $1 billion in commercial and
residential real estate and hotels over the past nine years.

Commenting on these appointments, Paul White, President and Chief Executive
Officer said, "Boyen and Gesue have particular strengths, from which we have
already seen benefit as they have developed in their previous roles. This new
focus will help us to drive our core strategies of maximizing our brand and
guest experience and of selling our developed real estate."

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