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Hua Hin Thailand
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-Hua Hin is
more or less the same for the people of Bangkok like the
towns on the French west coast for the people of Paris.
Hua Hin emerged from a small
town and summer retreat for Thai Royalty since 1920,
into a mayor travel destination in Thailand with an
excellent beach, various hotels and accommodations plus up
market apartments for people from
Bangkok and the tourists.
Once a
mall
town also used as a fishing village now a popular Thai
tourist destination with large numbers of foreign tourists.
Since about 40 years Hua Hin
receives lots of foreigners who enjoy the long, almost endless beach.
Plenty of Hua Hin hotels and beach resorts are between
Cha Am, Hua Hin and further north and south.
Also the spa
frenzy of resent years left its mark in form of several
excellent
Hua Hin spa. Hua Hin spa
are usually integrated into the big hotels and beach
resorts. A smaller version of Hua Hin spa can be found in
the down town area of
Hua Hin, there they call it massage parlor.
About 20 years ago the whole beach landscape at Hua Hin
became visually negative twisted, some real estate sharks
managed it to pull up the first high rise building directly
on the beach. This as usual encouraged others to do the same
and since there are no zoning laws in Thailand. After a few
years about a dozen skyscrapers are up at the beach and they
definitely wont enrich the once beautiful
beach scenery at Hua Hin and Cha Am.
After they transformed the
once sleepy Hua Hin into a easily reachable Thailand
beach destination by building a excellent 6 lane highway,
replacing
the old small road just about
200 m behind the
beach. |
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Today there is also a air shuttle service between Bangkok
and Hua Hin. Hua Hin offers many top notch hotel easily
reachable from Bangkok. Just travel south to Hua Hin from
Bangkok. In the last 2 years also the once partially rotten
motorway from Bangkok to Hua Hin was totally renovated into
a six lane super highway. Means Bangkok to Hua Hin by car
travel is only about 2 hours now once you leave the ring
road in Bangkok.
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Bangkok to Hua Hin view from
the Thaksin Bridge
Hua Hin is a district in
Prachuap Khiri Khan province. The area is 911 sq. km.
and there are about 85.000 people living in Hua Hin district
plus the tourists. Petchburi province is to the North, Gulf
of Thailand to the East and
Myanmar or
Burma to the West.
Hua Hin town has 87 sq km and roughly 51.000 people living
there, plus about 100.000 tourists at high season.
Some resorts in
Hua Hin are the Anantara,
Evason, Dusit Thani beach resort and the newly renovated
Holiday Inn at Regent Beach between Cha Am and Hua Hin,
actually this hotel was known before as the Regent Cha Am.
The Regent Cha Am was the first big beach resort built
between Cha Am and Hua Hin. There are more Hua Hin beach
resorts including Hilton and Sheraton. |
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Hua Hin
today is
a
quiet town with a relaxing atmosphere and could also be
used as a base for excursions into the area around, but
talking about Hua Hin most notably its fine beach, good
hotels and some action after dark called Hua Hin nightlife.
Hua Hin Dusit Thani
Beach Resort
Interior Design |
Hua Hin activities are
not so overwhelming there is not much to do during daytime
beside lay on the Hua Hin or Cha Am sandy beach, swim in the
hotel swimming pool or go to the spa for some body
treatment.
-All Hua Hin
hotels
are somehow directed
to wellness,
actually this are
the beach hotels.
Here are pictures from the Dusit Thani Beach
Resort. |
Hua Hin Dusit Thani
Beach |
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Hua Hin Fine Beach
Hua Hin Dusit Thani Beach
Resort |
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This Hua
Hin Resort has a
good location and a
great interior
design in the public
area, means lobby
etc. the rooms are
rather average.
Prices start at
about Baht 2400,-
for a normal room to
Baht 18.000 for the
presidential suite.
Other beach resorts
at Hua Hin have
similar pricing, but
they change this
every day.
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There are other hotels in Hua
Hin down town more directed to the budget tourist. One
strange thing happens every week, from Monday to Thursday
many Hua Hin town hotels have somehow reasonable prices,
around baht 1000,- but every Friday when the Bangkok crowd
is expected to arrive on their travel to Hua Hin the prices
double.
This hotel price
gambling can be partially offset, if you have a car or
motorbike by using a Hua Hin hotel located on the road to
the city.
On the road from Hua Hin towards
Prachuap Kiri Khan, means to the south, is a small hotel on
the left side, its the Highway Inn, just about 5 km behind
Hua Hin. This Hua Hin hotel offer good new rooms with
everything needed for between Baht 400,- to 900,-. The best
choice are the rooms for about Baht 600,- and this hotel
wont change prices every day like most other hotels and
beach resorts at Hua Hin are doing. |
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Hua Hin has some excellent
golf
courses and even
a
vineyard, ok its
not like Bordeaux Chateau
Lafitte but its not bad,
they also have a huge wine
cellar. |
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Hua Hin after dark nightlife
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When
you are bored of walking along the
beach at Hua Hin, laying around
at the swimming pool and so on think
about a little intermezzo. There are
2 day trip attractions out of Hua
Hin, unusual and exiting, giving you
some insight what this part of
Thailand has to offer.
First
would be a journey from Hua Hin to
the famous Erawan waterfall in
Kanchanaburi Province. The falls
are to the north west of Hua Hin,
easily reachable via a excellent
road, not the Bangkok road, in about
3 hour road travel. You could rent a
car at Hua Hin, do a full insurance
! and drive there.
Or take a
limousine and let you drive from Hua
to Erawan Waterfall,
maybe ask the travel agent if they
have a tour to the Erawan falls,
this is not for sure. With the
travel agents in Thailand always be
careful, they will demand their
commission from the final tour
operator, this are always other
peoples, and you pay this
commission. This is not visible to
you but it is. In any case be
aware that Thailand is a dangerous
place to drive since most drivers
have no traffic education at all and
don't care even of the most basic
road driving rules, the worst are
the small motorbikes.
Visiting
the
Erawan falls
out of Hua Hin, is a real experience
of a lifetime, you wont find
something like that again, just
nearby is a other very popular
waterfall the
Sai Yoke
waterfall. Both are
integrated in Thai National Parks on
the road from
Kanchanaburi
to the
3 Pagoda Pass
on the Thai Myanmar border. There is
absolutely no problem of any kind in
that area, don't belief if anyone
telling about any problems, its pure
nonsense talk.
The
area from Kanchanaburi town to the
mountainous border with Myanmar
is one of the most beautiful in
Thailand. Its very hilly,
interrupted by huge reservoirs for
electricity generation the River
Kwai and other rivers cut the
landscape. On many hills are small
monasteries and temples, its typical
Thai rural as life went on since
hundreds of years.
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Erawan Waterfall
River Kwai at Kanchanaburi |
Orchids |
Hua Hin travel |
Myanmar Orchid Market |
Myanmar People |
Lake with Water Lilies at
the Orchid Market |
Thailand Myanmar Border |
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The
second day trip attraction out of
Hua Hin would lead you south,
further into Prachuap Khiri Khan
Province and at the first
intersection into Prachuap Town you
will see a huge road sign pointing
to Myanmar, do a turn and drive on
after a couple of kilometers the
road splits, follow the sign ..to
border.
The landscape is real
beautiful reminding at Tuscany in
Italy with smooth hills narrow and
high trees, a small lake and so on.
Once you
reach the border you can experience
one of the biggest orchid markets in
Thailand. Every day about 100 -200
people from Myanmar come over and
try to sell their flowers. Its the
best place to see Myanmar rural
scenes. As a foreigner you cant
cross into Myanmar here, there is a
full Thai border post but on the
Myanmar side is only a military post
without immigration facility.
If you
intend to buy any of the orchids
on sale don't buy some with yellow
or brown leaves or spots on the
leaves since this indicates a fungus
infection. About 80% of the orchids
on display and on sale are infected.
Also don't touch it, the fungi will
stick on you fingers, if you touch
anything go to wash your hand
afterwards with soap.
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Road from Hua Hin to
Prachuap Khiri Khan |
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