Thread: Hua Hin - still a dump

Beach isn't great. The whores are hideous. The hotels are overpriced. IMO probably a better place to live than visit. I still like HH once in awhile. At least you can walk down the sidewalks w/out having to dodge schlock mongers, cars, & motos. Great seafood joints. The golf is top notch too.

It does fill a niche in Thailand really.a higher classed family version of Pattaya

Just spent three days in Hua Hin and there really isn't anything nice to say for it, in terms of tourism.
We're now at the Methavalai hotel in Cha Am and it is much better . . . but still nothing compared to the nicer beaches in Malaysia and other SEAsian countries.

The beach here is relatively clean - well, it was while empty but now with the long week-end holiday - but really nothing special at all . . . it certainly pales in comparison to the lovely beaches we enjoyed in and around Ao Nang in March/April.

Thailand is becoming less and less attractive for this type of vacation

i think you will find Ao Nang is in Thailand mate

Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer

While it may be quieter than Pattaya, Jomtien or Phuket, the same can be said for Rayong, Khon Kaen and Korat.

Why stop there ?
What about Roi Et or Buriram ?

You've had a shit hol Tom, but it was no fault of the location.

Are you serious when saying it's not worth getting out of the dense polluted haze that is bangkok ?

No Dillinger. I've been there (Hua Hin) many times over the years, and it just never improves. It lives off its special residents' reputation and little else. Do you have a special interest in HH? Why be so protective of it?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not proclaiming it to be paradise there,
I also ventured to that beach near the Hilton, I thought it was quite scenic as a whole, with those boulders as eye candy. I found the Thai beach vendors more of a pain than the horses though, with their constant telling you to "sit down sir" at every deck chair you walk past.
I also got ripped off for a thousand baht for a meal for the missus and a couple of beers at one where the plastic foldflat sunbeds are free, but you have to buy food.

Ive done Ao Nang, Samet, Pattaya , Hua Hin, Penang, Langkawi, in the last couple of years and as a whole Hua Hin would sit comfortably in the top 2 of those destinations IMO

Originally Posted by Dillinger

What about Roi Et or Buriram ?

Two of the dullest places on Earth (although Roi Et is clean).

Originally Posted by wackyjacky

Great seafood joints.

The parade of eateries on the seafront are fantastic. Delicious tucker at nice prices. I wasn't that taken with the rest of the place, apart from the bookshop run by the Ozzie gent.

^What about the donkeys?

^ They go without saying....

Originally Posted by Dillinger

I found the Thai beach vendors more of a pain than the horses though, with their constant telling you to "sit down sir" at every deck chair you walk past.

Like the massage places.
You've just walked 100 of the fkers and your still asking?

Ive done Ao Nang, Samet, Pattaya , Hua Hin, Penang, Langkawi, in the last couple of years and as a whole Hua Hin would sit comfortably in the top 2 of those destinations IMO

Nice to know, i'll have to have a look, maybe.

Originally Posted by Dillinger

It does fill a niche in Thailand really.a higher classed family version of Pattaya

I wish someone had told me that before I spent a week in that cesspit that is Pattaya - Jomtien.

Thanks BB will try Kanchanaburi at some point, but not really into river rafting. I've been to all the rest except Koh Samet. Planning that for later this year. So far I'd say Koh Chang is my favorite. Anyone else get the feeling Koh Chang presently feels like Phuket 20 years ago? In Phuket there are still ok places like Kamala Beach and something Singh beach nearby steep hike down and up again but worth it. Oh yes nearly forgot Krabi, it's in my top 3. I hope they keep it as is. However finding draft beer was a problem there too even in high season

Laem Singh Beach.

Koh Chang like Phuket 20 years ago?
That definitely depends on the which beach one chooses.
White Sand Beach these days feels exactly like Phuket, it was however quite lovely 17 years ago when I ended up there staying for 3 months.

But the beaches further to the south on the island are still quite nice and the eastern side of the island is virtually without any tourists whatsoever. The beaches are nothing to write home about though.

Originally Posted by Dillinger

i think you will find Ao Nang is in Thailand mate

New paragraph ya dill!

Just down from Cha Am is dolphin bay, lovely place

Originally Posted by kingwilly

Just down from Cha Am and past Huahin is dolphin bay, lovely place

Just thought I'd help you out, Willy.

Originally Posted by Dillinger

It does fill a niche in Thailand really.a higher classed family version of Pattaya

Somehow that doesn't quite work as the compliment it was intended to be.

I just take the 30ThB ferry from Pattaya Pier to Tawan Beach on Koh Lam, when I'm on my annual golf trip to Pattaya. Very few Thai's go to the small quiet Beach to right 2 end of Tawan Pier. Most Thai's go left to the monster disco throbbing, bbqing Thai Beach. I always have some decent snorkelling, cool beers & good seafood salat. Some gorgeous young Russian Bikini clad babes there.

^ valuable and constructive input, thanks . . .

A saving grace - about half an hour further south of Hua Hin, on a promontory, is a 'fishing village' where the crab is plentiful and relatively cheap at 350/kg . . . drove there yesterday - added to which it makes a nice change from the usual Thai fare which none us are that fond of.

So far quite lucky in reference to weather - two late showers in the last ten days - not bad for monsoon times

Originally Posted by OckerRocker

valuable and constructive input, thanks

Read his blog, you will understand

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