Super Joe wrote:Agree with KD, I drank it that area a fair bit when i first came over, and there was too much trouble then as Hua Hin was v. busy then and that area was laid out differently with most people jammed inside the bars bumping into each other. Now it's quieter there in general, and half the people sitting outside the bars, it's miles better imho.Khundon1975 wrote:and no doubt this has darkened your view of Hua Hin. Don't let it, this sort of thing happens all over the World and HH is no different.
I always enjoyed the bars in HH and never encountered any trouble, but then I knew which areas to avoid and I was always home early.
For the past 8 months or so, I've been going there 2-3 times a week, until it's time for my son's toast and apart from some close calls that got defused by Thai male workers (believe it or not), I have honestly only seen one real fight. Maybe I'm just unlucky, I don't know, but it has been crowded round there, like 50% more people from maybe Christmas on, so doesn't really surprised me that DaveT could have witnessed two.
The area was brought up in another thread the other week and I wrote:Super Tw@t wrote:As SteveG mentions, the 'karaoke' area is open 'til 6am. It's changed drastically round there now imo, now that a couple of them have had a make-over, glass fronted, air-con, DJ (kid with Now Dance 95 cd), and lots of seating outside, feels a bit like a food court
And the whole atmosphere's better round there now, not all crowded in small bars with problems cos someone stood on someone's flip-flops, plus there's 4 or 5 sensible owners & security who actually want to keep the peace. Lot brighter and smarter, plus a dedicated Bintaburger who stays the course. SJ
As it's the only all-night drinking area in Hua Hin/Cha Am, with 12 bars all welded together, you would expect to see problems anywhere in the world in these types of places, whether or not you had witnessed it previously. But I don't really get how this, or the grumpiness levels of hookers during the quietest spell of their careers, is a meaningful reflection on a town overall, there are plenty of other negatives, more indicative imo.
Think you were just unlucky this time DaveT, it's that sort of place where it could produce problems 3 nights on the trot, then nothing for the next 3 months. It's very unpredictable, but don't let it, or the idiots in it, stop you from coming back.
And about high season, I think yes it is worse then as goes from half empty there, to quite crowded due it's relatively small size
SJ
Thanks SJ.
It won't put me off coming back, I have too many good friends in HH now, farang and Thai.
I won't go back to that area again in a hurry though. The Thai friend who I was drinking with that night felt bad about the situation and typically Thai felt some kind of responsibility. I told him not to worry, this kind of thing happens everywhere in the world, it's just disappointing it's now started in HH. This guy has many Thai friends and is known in many other late night bars away from the tourist areas, so we ended up going to some of them on his motorbike after this incident on my remaining nights. Was really good and got to meet some of his Thai mates in what were 99% Thai only bars, a little out of the centre.
Only downside is zooming back to my hotel on the back of his motorbike at 5 am the worse for wear!! One morning got back at 7 am, straight into breakfast then bed for a few hours!!
