Thread: Hua Hin - still a dump

Originally Posted by OckerRocker

^ 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

Yes mate that a nice area south of HH.

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Read his blog, you will understand

Charming . . .

Originally Posted by Ratchaburi

Yes mate that a nice area south of HH.

. . . combined with lovely weather . . . aaah, life is good

It's well worth popping into Buffalo Bills in HH for a Sunday dinner

Looks really inviting. The crap Chang Beer sign proudly and prominently on display, the windowless, no doubt fan-cooled interior and the art deco unpainted breeze block exterior. Still food is probably great. Another up market Hua Hin eatery. Mind the rats crossing the Soi though

Originally Posted by Dillinger

It's well worth popping into Buffalo Bills in HH for a Sunday dinner

Do Bill & Lorraine still own it, or have they sold up & moved on?

Originally Posted by November Rain

sold up & moved on?

This.

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

Originally Posted by November Rain

sold up & moved on?

This.

They were talking about it before I left. Just wondered if they had. Cheers

It's well worth popping into Buffalo Bills in HH for a Sunday dinner

Its greasy shite. Ive had better at the Little Chef on the A1 near Peterborough.

Tax, is it not somewhat contradictory to extoll the virtue of Hua Hin as a place for the discerning yet then counsel folk to avoid its showpiece centre?

Bit like recommending Blackpool but then telling everyone to hoof it down to Lytham St. Annes, surely?

The whole point of the country is that on occasion it can offer liveliness with a modicum of amenities pleasing to the eye. Unfortunately, no one would, or could, accuse Hua Hin of that and the place remains a mediocre, dreary burgh as dull as ditchwater.

At the moment I am in yorkshire, the weather is perfect, the natives are friendly, sincere and fun and the prices, service and value, are, after thailand, a welcome revelation. It all just reinforces the unpleasant truth that the thais are motivated purely by greed, selfishness and laziness.

Thailand at the moment is a long way away, and strangely enough I have no great desire to return, although I know I will, but we intend to enjoy two or three months in the wonderful uk.

The hua hin hostelry in question is one of those sad places that try, and usually fail, to bring farangland to thailand. I could not in all honesty, recommend it to anybody. The town center, like all tourist town centers is for tourists only. those who live there will usually avoid most of the eating places there. There are one or two long established thai eateries in the center but the center is in fact an unpleasant mish mash of poor value seafood restaurants, optical shops, tailor shops, taxi drivers and locals fed up with the tourists who provide their income.

I'm not surprised Tax.

At present, I'm still at the stage where shopping in my local Waitrose is better than sex. I fondle the choicest of cuts whilst fantasising over how best to prepare them happy in the knowledge that whatever I choose it'll taste delicious, accompanied by whatever wine piques my fancy and, best of all, I don't have to " make do " and compromise.

Farting terribly though.

But, it has to be said, I rarely see a beautiful woman. Ugliness is a feature of life here and one has to get used to it again.

I expect I'll be fit for another Thai spell in about a year or so.

True, the inner city streets and the aisles of aldi are awash with the malformed, the obese and the gross, it is sickening.

But food shopping is a joy. the choice, the prices, the friendly service and the chat is a world away from the gum chewing nose picking phone fiddling bored superficiality and general apathy one encounters from staff in thailand.


Not sure if I would like it here so much in november though.

Originally Posted by taxexile

True, the inner city streets and the aisles of aldi are awash with the malformed, the obese and the gross

We've crossed paths then..

Originally Posted by Dillinger

It's well worth popping into Buffalo Bills in HH for a Sunday dinner

Didn't go in, but the places opposite on the seafront are excellent for an evening meal.

Originally Posted by taxexile

gum chewing nose picking phone fiddling bored superficiality and general apathy one encounters from staff in thailand.

A very apt description

Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer

Once my productive working years are over I too would only live in Thailand part-time. I've been pondering the months to be here and there. Ideally, and for tax avoidance, I was thinking Nov-mid April (lv just before Songkran), then a month in Spain or the Algarve. Then mid May to October over there. Other better options?

Brazil - if you can afford it.

Best weather, music, food OK - women-folk really OK!

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Brazil

I prefer your Brazilian flag av!