Orient-Express celebrates top honours in the Condé Nast Traveller 2009 Reader's Travel Awards
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Orient-Express celebrates top honours in the Condé Nast Traveller 2009 Reader's Travel Awards
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Category: Worldwide
This is a press release selected by our editorial committee and published online for free on 2009-11-04
Furthermore, five Orient-Express Hotels were highly rated by readers of the magazine in other categories:
Hotel Splendido in Portofino was runner up in the best Overseas Leisure Hotel in Europe, Asia Minor and the Russian Federation category, with Hotel Cipriani in Venice achieving 4th position and La Residencia in Mallorca in 5th. Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons in Oxfordshire also achieved the runner up award in the Best UK Leisure Hotel category.
For Overseas Leisure Hotels in Australasia and the South Pacific, both Orient-Express properties made the top ten, with Lilianfels Blue Mountains in New South Wales in 3rd position and The Observatory Hotel in Sydney positioned in 6th place.
Machu Picchu Sanctuary Lodge in Peru, the only hotel located adjacent to the ancient citadel of Machu Picchu, was voted 3rd in The Americas and Caribbean Overseas Leisure Hotel category.
Raymond Blanc was at the event to accept the award for Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons from Condé Nast Traveller editor, Sarah Miller. Filip Boyen, Vice President – Operations, received the honours on behalf of The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express and Hotel Splendido.
Condé Nast Traveller prides itself on a ‘truth in travel’ philosophy and has for the last 11 years, conducted these annual reader awards that are always eagerly awaited by its readers and the international travel industry.
Readers are asked to write in and vote on the best that the travel world has to offer in categories that range from hotels, spas, airlines, airports and for the first time, trains. They are then asked to rate their choices accordingly in various categories such as location, ambience and décor, value for money, service, cuisine and environmental friendliness. These votes are calculated as an average on each criterion, which provides the overall satisfaction percentage that decides the winners.
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