When was your first visit to Hua Hin?

[tonymaroni]

Hua Hin 10 years ago.
Quite different, that was the time to buy some land.
Not to many business concerns after you got out of town.

Cha Am 1990, was very boring in a big high rise.
Now?

[CNF55]

Moved to Bangkok in 2001 with a first trip to Hua Hin early 2002. Stayed at the Hilton. Loved it and ended up buying our beach condo in 2003. No regrets.

[Lee1975]

Me & a friend dropped everything in Dec 2001 and booked a flight to Oz with a month stopover in Thailand on the way over. Met up with some friends in BKK on New years eve 2001 and they then introduced us to Hua Hin. Spent 2 weeks in HH then went over to Oz for 9/10 months. Came back to Thailand in Oct 2002 and straight back down to HH where I spent a 3/4 weeks here. Used to frequent a bar called 'Banana Bar' on Binthabat, not sure if its still there, renamed, or the lovely Thai lady (cant remember her name, think we just used to call her 'Banana') still owns it?

[madjbs]

My first trip was during Songkran 2007, it was lovely to get away from the madness elsewhere at that time. Stayed at the Anantasila on Takiab beach and had a great time. Been back about a dozen times since then.

[lazerlab]

April 2007. It was a wet experience !

[Crocket]

Hi All

Was there in 2008, Feb. 2009 and the missus and I are in the wonderful city again in Dec.

Been to other resorts but we always favour HH.

Top place, nice weather, great folk, friendly girls, just so relaxing.

Kind regards

Crocket UK


There are three faithful friends, a loving wife, an old dog, and ready money.

[Endre]

First time about 3 years ago. Loved it and came back for more

[Big Boy]

Welcome to the Forum Endre.

[BaaBaa.]

Never been. Hope it's alright.

[ed9972]

First visit in 1999 can't stop coming back now

[HAPPYGOLFER]

My first trip to HH was on a golf holliday in jan-2006 ,after playing golf for 10 days in Pattaya we wanted some peace and rest and arrived in HH a stormy and rainfull evening. The last day at PP villa we had a meeting with another norwegian, who told us he was building houses in soi 94, by now 5 years later I,ve stayed in my house for 4 years, but still working in air ambulance in Norway most of the year.
PS. Life is filled up with difficult matters, you just have to chose the right all the way,easy???

[Korkenzieher]

Turned up mid 2007, having been pretty much everywhere else (except darkest Isaan...) just to visit a friend and ended up staying. More by accident than design. Never even knew the place existed before that, in spite of reglular trips including several months of gap-year stuff in the very early 90's.

[keestha]

1992. Backpacking around Asia, I tried to avoid touristy places. But the Lonely Planet of the time said Hua Hin was more like a beach resort for Thai people, so I decided to give it a try. Because that day I was a bit feverish, I had forgotten to select a guesthouse from the guide book, and I allowed a samlor who met me at the railway station to take me to the MP Guesthouse in Soi Kanjanomai, which turned out to be very pleasant.
Walking around in central Hua Hin, soon i was a bit disappointed because in my eyes it looked pretty much geared for western tourists. I remember eating in a restaurant at the place where now Buffalo Bill maybe still is (next to Burger King, ex Gee Cuisine), and going through great pains to keep the bill under 100 Baht.
But sitting at a beach chair later on, I got the feeling that the place somehow had kind of a pleasant atmosphere, and a few months later I went back to Hua Hin to spend another week and a half at the end of my backpacking journey.
Fast forward...one year later I was living and working in Bangkok. After a few months, my working schedule allowed me to go somewhere in the weekend. But somehow Hua Hin had completely disappeared from my thinking, so the first weekend I went to Kanchanaburi, and the next one to Saraburi, and the one after that I stayed in Bangkok for some reason.
Only when the fourth weekend was approaching, I got the idea of going to Hua Hin, where I had a wonderful time, lots of fun with a girl who still knew me from the previous visit, though nothing physical happened. Would Seeliam still be around? Soon I went to Hua Hin almost every weekend, occasionally going to Pattaya instead, to enjoy the many cultural attractions there.
Later, in 1994, I took over the lease of a bar and guesthouse in Soi Kanjanomai, which I renamed Amsterdam Bar and Usaah Guesthouse, right opposite the MP Guesthouse where I stayed the first time. I kept running the place till 1999, a cheerful period drenched in abundant quantities of alcohol.
In 1999 my lease ran out, and I had to stop. I also decided to leave Hua Hin altogether, because the last two years it had become less good commercially: too much competition, too many other places.
Looking around for another place in Thailand to start anew, I finally settled in Khao Lak in 2000, and I built up the resort that I still own and run.
Two up to four times a year I still spend one night in Hua Hin, when I am on the way to somewhere else. I am always amazed how many Thai people still recognize and greet me when I am there. In the hope of meeting old geezer expats who still remember me, I always drop in at All in Hua Hin and at Billy’s Bar.
Somehow Hua Hin still feels a bit like home to me, questionable if I would have the same feeling if I would visit my native country (the Netherlands), which I left 20 years ago, and where I was last in 2002.
Oh well folks, guess that’s it for now, season’s greetings,
Kees.

[bapak]

I first came to Hua Hin in 1955..Singapore/Kuala/Lumpur/Butterworth/Hat Hai by train. Then bus first to Surat Thani, then to Hua Hin... where I stayed for a month. I said to myself that I would come back to live here one day, and following many brief stays over the years... 10 year's ago this became a reality.

I may be a little old fashion, but I prefer the old HH to the present. But here I stay and I will probably make my final departure via Hua Hin Wat's furnace.

[hhfarang]

I will probably make my final departure via Hua Hin Wat's furnace.

I feel the same way bapak, but I came here in 2003. I can't imagine the differences you've seen since 1955! That must be amazing considering the growth and change I've seen here in just the past seven years!