Hua Hin, the next Pattaya?

[JAFO]

I am finding that Hua Hin is quickly becoming the "Next Pattaya".

What do others who have lived here think?

I am starting to find this area to be less and less appealing for a host of reasons.

[BaaBaa.]

In what way?

It's nothing like Pattaya in any way, shape or form in my opinion.

[Big Boy]

In what way?

It's nothing like Pattaya in any way, shape or form in my opinion.

[JimmyGreaves]

Hate to disagree guys, I think that yes the OP is right.

It is getting and in time will get more and more like Pattaya a big city. The expansion of the quant HH of even 7 years ago has gone. Before travelling from soi 102 to the shell petrol station I thought it was miles out in the sticks, now it is part of the centre of town. Soon we will have bulidings all the way from Pranburi to Cha am both sides of Petchakasem. So traffic wise it is getting more like a metropolise. Pattaya! Sex industry wise I'm not sure, probably not. Mafia influenced think that it is starting.

May do a Buksi!

[malcolminthemiddle]

There was a topic back in 2006 with the same title here

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3018

Interesting to see what has change in the past 6 years.

[JAFO]

Well I see a ton of congestion, its becoming dirtier and dirtier, What marginal beaches that did exist are crowded and polluted. I see a tremendous amount of condo's being built all driven at foreigners and high end Thais from BKK. Food prices are rising significantly. Houses are becoming over priced. As my GF noticed the sex trade is becoming quite open and obvious now and I see more and more drunk staggering foreigners in public. I hear more and more people are exiting Pattaya and moving to Hua Hin. More and more western food driven businesses popping up.

Give it another 5 years and this will be another dirty seedy city just like Pattaya IMHO. It has all the ear markings to be that way.

[BaaBaa.]

Hua Hin doesn't have the space to become Pattaya, sex industry wise, it's just not possible.

Do you venture out of the Hilton/Bintabaht area because I couldn't disagree more.

[Lung Per]

Hua Hin doesn't have the space to become Pattaya, sex industry wise, it's just not possible.

Do you venture out of the Hilton/Bintabaht area because I couldn't disagree more.

[JAFO]

Hell I do not even live in Hua Hin, I pass through it a lot but it is a becoming a small version of it in almost every way. Disagree and defend all you want but the little slice of paradise is slowly slipping away.

[Big Boy]

I don't disagree that Hua Hin is changing a lot. However, it would need gigantic changes to become another Pattaya.

[BaaBaa.]

Hell I do not even live in Hua Hin, I pass through it a lot but it is a becoming a small version of it in almost every way. Disagree and defend all you want but the little slice of paradise is slowly slipping away.

If by 1% of it being anything like Pattaya I completely agree.

HH certainly isn't picture postcard Thailand but it's bugger all like Pattaya.

[johnnyk]

I am finding that Hua Hin is quickly becoming the "Next Pattaya".

What do others who have lived here think?

I am starting to find this area to be less and less appealing for a host of reasons.

Less appealing, ok. "The next Pattaya" is a bit extreme. HH will never have 2000+ bars. It all sounds a bit naive. Every town in Thailand with more than a few thousand people has sex for sale/rent.

[BaaBaa.]

More and more western food driven businesses popping up.

Yep! More choice of food is a real bummer.

[Bamboo Grove]

JAFO wrote:

As my GF noticed the sex trade is becoming quite open and obvious now and I see more and more drunk staggering foreigners in public.

This was the way it was already in 1995 when I started visiting Hua Hin more regularly. It has grown yes, but the area where this happens, is still more or less the same as it was then and we farangs have always been staggering and drunk in this area. So nothing new, IMHO.

[johnnyk]

I was in Rome and a taxi driver told me, "It's gone to the dogs. You shoulda been here in 50BC, it was really something. Too many tourists now!"