Could Hua Hin Support An Ice Skating Rink?

[hhinner]

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Now why the heck doesn't someone open an ice skating place around here somewhere?

Open air?

[HHTel]

Very costly venture. I doubt whether there are enough skaters in HH to make it worthwhile. So in the meantime, you could include it in a day's outing to BKK.

[Big Boy]

In the UK before I left, temporary rinks were very popular around Christmas/New Year in many towns and cities. It worked in the UK, so why not during high season here?

[STEVE G]

When I was living in Jakarta they opened an ice rink in a shopping mall which I thought was the maddest idea ever but it turned out to be massively popular. What confused me was where all those Asian kids had learnt to skate as it was the first one around.

[Big Boy]

I think it would be a great asset to Market Village as part of their Christmas display.

[malcolminthemiddle]

There is one in the Paragon, Bangkok. Very popular.

[PeteC]

Yes, and a good sized rink at Mega Bang Na as well.

[caller]

Soon to be two in Korat - one in the Mall and one in T21.

[JamesWest]

Yes, and a good sized rink at Mega Bang Na as well.

Mega Bang?

[kendo]

I think the question should be could Hua Hin support two ice skating rinks................ you know the script!

[PeteC]

This article more or less fits here. Made me chuckle, except the energy part. Pete

Energy-guzzling snow parks boom in sizzling Thailand

"Bangkok (AFP) - In a hall filled with psychedelic ice sculptures, there are shrieks of excitement as a toboggan careers down an ice run, its occupants snugly wrapped up against the sub-zero temperatures.

But this is no fun park in an icy Siberian wasteland -- this is tropical Bangkok."....

http://news.yahoo.com/energy-guzzling-s ... 41387.html

[europtimiste]

Hua Hin use a large quantity of water for his golfs, now some farangs have the strange idea of a ice skating ring.
There is one in Bangkok and even a snow city. Do you know that they use a huge quantity of water and electricity.
Here we complain about water shortage and electrical problems and you want an ice skating ring ? Don't forget that water shortage responsables are golfers.

[hhfarang]

The Ice Bar and "frozen room" at the Titanium Club in Bangkok is very popular with Thais. I think they hate the heat almost as much as I did. I've seen the ice rink at Paragon so crowded it was difficult for people to actually skate so I think it may have a chance in Hua Hin, especially if it was in a mall like that new Blueport place. Maybe that's what they should have done with the old basement garage floor at Market Village. They could have cut viewing areas out of the ground floor overlooking the rink.