Von Essen Hotels Ltd - Luxury Family Hotels Limited.

(From AFX CNF)

RNS Number:5155J Von Essen Hotels Ltd 27 September 2006 EMBARGOED UNTIL 7:00AM 27 September 2006 NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, IN OR INTO OR FROM A US RESTRICTED JURISDICTION, CANADA, AUSTRALIA OR JAPAN Recommended cash offers by Mazars Corporate Finance Limited ("MCFL") on behalf of Luxury Family Hotels Limited ("LFH") For the entire issued and to be issued ordinary and founder share capital of Luxury Family Hotels Five plc ("LFH Five") Level of acceptances and Offers declared wholly unconditional LFH announces that as at 3.00 p.m. on 26 September 2006, the First Closing Date of the Offers, LFH had received valid acceptances of the Offers as follows: In respect of the Ordinary Offer 1,811,002 LFH Five Shares in aggregate, representing approximately 90.5 per cent. of the existing issued ordinary share capital of LFH Five. In respect of the Founder Offer, LFH had received valid acceptances of the Founder Offer in respect of 500,000 LFH Five Shares in aggregate, representing 100 per cent. of the existing issued Founder share capital of LFH Five. Prior to the announcement of the Offers on 30 August 2006, LFH had received irrevocable undertakings to accept (or procure the …