RNS Number:6046N
Peel Hotels PLC
16 July 2003



                                PEEL HOTELS PLC


                            SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDING


The Company has been notified by C E W Peel that he is interested in 2,300,000
of the Company's ordinary shares, equivalent to 18.98 per cent. of the Company's
issued ordinary share capital, 1,800,000 of which are registered in his own name
and 500,000 of which are registered in the name of his wife.


16 July 2003






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