Orient-Express Hotels today announced the reopening of the Miraflores Park Hotel in Lima following a US$4.6 million (approx £2.4m) renovation.  At the same time, the company revealed its plans to convert the convent building next to the Hotel Monasterio in Cuzco (Cusco),into a 32 room annexe with spa and pool.

The three month project in Lima has seen the entire hotel refurbished along with the addition of a new rooftop restaurant with panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean, an outdoor dining terrace, redesigned gourmet restaurant, new spa and fourth presidential suite.

Every guest room at the Miraflores Park Hotel has been refurbished in golden and china blue hues.  Jacuzzis in junior suites have been retiled with iridescent diamond shaped marble tiles and the outdoor areas of the garden rooms on the fourth floor have been given more privacy with wooden divides and small waterfall features.

The ground floor gourmet restaurant has been renamed Poissonerie and opens out onto a terrace area decorated with tropical palms, wrought iron furniture and red cushions.  The interior of the restaurant has been repainted in a rich red, offset by cream linens and dark wood mirrors.  The Poissonerie Restaurant has an emphasis on seafood, as well as local Peruvian and international cuisine.

On the 11th floor of the hotel, a new breakfast restaurant has been created next to the enlarged pool and spa.  The restaurant has a peaked canvas roof but is otherwise open to expose the 180º panorama of the Pacific Ocean. 

Elsewhere in Peru, permission has been granted to convert the Nazarenas convent building adjacent to the 16th century Hotel Monasterio in Cuzco (Cusco), into a 32 room annexe with swimming pool, poolside restaurant and spa.  The aim of the project is to create a peaceful and relaxing haven within the city of Cuzco (Cusco), with work beginning in August 2005 and taking approximately 15 months to complete.

Orient-Express Hotels also operates with a Peruvian partner the rail transport company, PeruRail, which in 2003 introduced the Hiram Bingham, a luxury train linking Cuzco (Cusco), with the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu echoing the opulence of the 1920s Pullman era of rail travel.  Due to phenomenal success, the service now operates six days a week and in January 2005 an open-deck observation and bar car was added to the rake.

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