Hua Hin

I passed through Hua Hin for a couple of days to break up the trip down to Ko Panghan from Bangkok on a recent travel/ party holiday to Thailand. After 3 days of the excess, smog and seedyness of Bangkok it was nice to visit such a clean, laid back little town. It is a slower way of life and was just what we needed, you can see why it is the traditional holiday escape of Thai holidaymakers. I am a travel agent by trade and I recommend this destination to my customers whatever the age, whether it be a young traveller or an older couple. It doesn't have the pace of other resort destinations like Phuket or Phi Phi, but I think that it has enough bars, resturants, ...

How the trip came about My girlfriend and myself had agreed to get married and, bless her, she had taken on the task of arranging everything and anything to do with the wedding with one proviso “You arrange the Honeymoon”. That’s easy, thought I, there are eight months to go and the world’s my oyster. Well, with three weeks to go I had done absolutely nothing other than to think dreamily of some unknown tropical paradise without the smallest clue as to where we would end up and beginning to worry slightly that I had left it too late when I got home from work one day and there was a mailshot on my doormat from a travel company I had used before. ...

Nice place with a great market place where you can pick up jewellry, bedding, clothes for very little! Go up the side streets for good shops...... Nearby is the Prince's Palace where the Royal family spend their vacations, you can walk around, it is interesting to see the history of it, and some original beds can be seen! I found it intriguing how small their beds were! We were fortunate that some students who were studying English, asked if we would accompany them to the Palace so that they could sit their verbal exam in front of their tutor (using their learned English on us!) so it was terrific to help them get through that nerve racking day, and we ...