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Published on January 26, 2008

Spice Roads (spiceroads.com), Bangkok's premier cycling organiser, has a fleet of Trek 4500 mountain bikes for rent to casual bikers. Rates depend on time - the longer you rent, the cheaper the deal. From one to seven days, for example, you pay Bt700 per day, while 15 to 21 days' rental is just Bt320. Rear bike racks are also available at an additional Bt30.

Spice Roads often organises bike trip around Thailand and other Asian countries. Call (02) 712 5305.

Shangri-La on Conde Nast 'Gold List'

The Shangri-La Hotel Bangkok has been recognised in the 2008 "Gold List" of Conde Nast Traveller (US edition).

Readers voted the hotel and other six Shangri-La properties worldwide to the list, which was published in the magazine's January issue.

Conde Nast Traveller's "Gold List" results are based upon the 2007 Readers' Choice Survey, in which the publication asked respondents to rate hotels according to various criteria such as service, rooms, design, dining and location.

From the more than 28,000 subscriber responses received, the publication calculated the average score of each category and tabulated the overall satisfaction percentage.

More choices to India

Thai Airways International has increased flights on its Bangkok to Hyderabad route to five per week.

The service operates on Airbus A300-600 aircraft on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, departing from Suvarnabhumi Airport at 8.35pm and arriving in Hyderabad at 10.50pm

(local time). The return flight leaves Hyderabad at 11.55pm and gets into Bangkok at 4.55am the following day.

Currently, THAI operates flights to six destinations in India: Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay, Chennai, and Hyderabad.