41/3 m.g. Road;
7 km from airport, 8 km from railway station and bus stand.
163 rooms. Standard single, double residency single, double; suite
Restaurants, coffee shop, bar, banquet and convention facilities, business centre. Health club, swimming pool, barber shop, beauty parlour, patisserie, travel assistance, currency exchange, credit cards.
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Cauvery emporium and central cot¬tage emporium (mg road); art works (o'shaughnessy road); raga (residency road); gallerie lavelle (lavelle road); cose belle (mg road); national cottage emporium (nandidurg road).
Pub crawling is a past-time in vogue with the younger set. The beer here is i among the best in the world, locally brewed, fresh and bubbly. Most pubs are over-crowded, heavy with smoke and drowned with loud music. The food here is the snacky, tandoori kind.
A few are sedate, sparsely patronised and have an old-world pub-like atmo- i sphere, like polo club and the royal derby. A pub lunch here is worth savouring.
Polo club, the oberoi: 37-39 m.g. Road,
Black cadillac: mohan towers, 50 res¬idency road
The pub world: 65, residency road (opp. Galaxy theatre)
Nasa: 1/4, church st..
Hessaraghatta: Bangalore (26.5 km from bangalore on tumkur road): here is an artifical lake covering 1,124 acres, and a boat club. The indo-danish dairy project and government horticultural and dairy farms are interesting places to visit.
Nh 4 and 13 form the hospet-bangalore link (343 km from hampi). Regular services from bangalore operate to hospet. Buses ply between hampi/ hospet hourly. First bus leaves at 6:30 a.m. From hospet to bangalore.
Bangalore is connected to delhi by ra-jdhani express and karnataka express. It is also well connected with mumbai by udayan and kurla expresses daily, to chennai by shatabdi express, chennai mail, chennai express and brindavan ex¬press and also to thiruvananthapuram, kochi, calcutta, hyderabad and manga-lore by express trains. Mysore (145 km) is just 2.5 to 3 hrs from bangalore by shatabdi express. Railway enquiry: general (131), reservations (132), pre-recorded informa¬tion (1361 english, 1362 hindi), arrivals/ departures (133). Pre-paid auto-rickshaw service is available at the railway station.
