Thailand ,Hua Hin, a trip report.
Oct 10th, 2008, 01:41 AM
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Today is Evason Spa day, Lisa plans to have the full journey !! The morning is spent totally secluded in our own villa, I can’t highlight enough how comfortable the pool villas are. We had cold drinks and ice delivered with just a phone call, it was all too easy. Lunch was just something light from the bar, Lisa didn’t want to be fat for her spa !!!!!! She headed off and I sat in the bar where I used the complimentary wireless internet connection to catch up on what was happening at home. I went back to the villa for a quick swim before heading down to the beach and one of the local massage huts where I had the el cheapo massage, 350 baht !!. I don’t really like massages….they always hurt ( yes I know I am a wimp !!), but this lady took my instructions to go easy and I found it quite relaxing !! So relaxing that after it I walked the 20 meters further south to the “Windy Bar” for a couple of 80 baht ice cold Singhas !! The position is great and the beer is cheap, the staff are cheerful, definitely recommend the Windy Bar !!
When we meet back at the villa we only have time to get showered before catching the shuttle into Hua Hin for dinner. The meal we enjoyed at the night market earlier in the week made us keen to eat in town again. Friday night appears to be much busier. We had a wander down to the fishing pier and watched the locals dangle a line and the sun go down over the town. We bought a couple of very interesting t-shirts from a store where the serving “person” was as interesting as the t-shirts !! Time for dinner and we wandered along the line of restaurants until we found one with an interesting lady out the front, she tried german on us first, then French and when I admitted Australian heritage she set out with an authentic “gudday mate”, we were hooked. We were escorted to a table out over the water and proceeded to have a fantastic thai seafood meal. One point of note is what the menu described as “buttered” was actually “battered “ ! Dinner and beers, 800 baht.
Time for a wander before meeting the shuttle, we took a left, then a right and all of a sudden we were in the bar district. The local ladies advertising their “products” with good humour, Lisa found it quite amusing that they offered services to me even though she was walking with me. Some pretty ladies some of them ( at least I think they were ladies??) back to the shuttle, worth noting is that Starbucks on the main street has wonderfully clean toilets.
Time for a quick cocktail when we get back to the Evason and a chance to watch the green lights of the squid boats bob around in the gulf…eerily pretty.
Today is Evason Spa day, Lisa plans to have the full journey !! The morning is spent totally secluded in our own villa, I can’t highlight enough how comfortable the pool villas are. We had cold drinks and ice delivered with just a phone call, it was all too easy. Lunch was just something light from the bar, Lisa didn’t want to be fat for her spa !!!!!! She headed off and I sat in the bar where I used the complimentary wireless internet connection to catch up on what was happening at home. I went back to the villa for a quick swim before heading down to the beach and one of the local massage huts where I had the el cheapo massage, 350 baht !!. I don’t really like massages….they always hurt ( yes I know I am a wimp !!), but this lady took my instructions to go easy and I found it quite relaxing !! So relaxing that after it I walked the 20 meters further south to the “Windy Bar” for a couple of 80 baht ice cold Singhas !! The position is great and the beer is cheap, the staff are cheerful, definitely recommend the Windy Bar !!
When we meet back at the villa we only have time to get showered before catching the shuttle into Hua Hin for dinner. The meal we enjoyed at the night market earlier in the week made us keen to eat in town again. Friday night appears to be much busier. We had a wander down to the fishing pier and watched the locals dangle a line and the sun go down over the town. We bought a couple of very interesting t-shirts from a store where the serving “person” was as interesting as the t-shirts !! Time for dinner and we wandered along the line of restaurants until we found one with an interesting lady out the front, she tried german on us first, then French and when I admitted Australian heritage she set out with an authentic “gudday mate”, we were hooked. We were escorted to a table out over the water and proceeded to have a fantastic thai seafood meal. One point of note is what the menu described as “buttered” was actually “battered “ ! Dinner and beers, 800 baht.
Time for a wander before meeting the shuttle, we took a left, then a right and all of a sudden we were in the bar district. The local ladies advertising their “products” with good humour, Lisa found it quite amusing that they offered services to me even though she was walking with me. Some pretty ladies some of them ( at least I think they were ladies??) back to the shuttle, worth noting is that Starbucks on the main street has wonderfully clean toilets.
Time for a quick cocktail when we get back to the Evason and a chance to watch the green lights of the squid boats bob around in the gulf…eerily pretty.
Oct 13th, 2008, 02:17 AM
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The last bit.
The last day has arrived, our flight home is early tomorrow so we elected to spend the day at the Evason before a late afternoon transfer to the Novotel at Suvarnabhumi International Airport. Checkout time is 12 noon , but the friendly folk from the Evason arrange for us to have one of their older hotel style rooms to keep our gear in and shower and change before we go. We bum around the pool for most of the day before lunch at the bar again. The golf cart delivers us to our transfer driver and the 3 hour drive ensues. The trip this time took us through Bangkok itself at just on sunset and the rapidly increasing neon glow is quite pretty. The Novotel is a very comfortable hotel right at the airport. The service is excellent and fatigue takes it toll and we order room service, which surprisingly included a 20th anniversary cake that our travel consultant Fiona had organized….a much appreciated touch. The hotels shuttle delivered us to the airport and the flight was on time. One little note, don’t buy duty free liquids if you are outbound….they will not let you take it on board.
Very happy to recommend the Evason at Hua Hin and definitely the Pool Villas.
The last day has arrived, our flight home is early tomorrow so we elected to spend the day at the Evason before a late afternoon transfer to the Novotel at Suvarnabhumi International Airport. Checkout time is 12 noon , but the friendly folk from the Evason arrange for us to have one of their older hotel style rooms to keep our gear in and shower and change before we go. We bum around the pool for most of the day before lunch at the bar again. The golf cart delivers us to our transfer driver and the 3 hour drive ensues. The trip this time took us through Bangkok itself at just on sunset and the rapidly increasing neon glow is quite pretty. The Novotel is a very comfortable hotel right at the airport. The service is excellent and fatigue takes it toll and we order room service, which surprisingly included a 20th anniversary cake that our travel consultant Fiona had organized….a much appreciated touch. The hotels shuttle delivered us to the airport and the flight was on time. One little note, don’t buy duty free liquids if you are outbound….they will not let you take it on board.
Very happy to recommend the Evason at Hua Hin and definitely the Pool Villas.
Oct 13th, 2008, 07:41 AM
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how long is the ride from the hotel into hua hin.....as i remember it is quite a ways???
we never have any trouble taking duty free onto our flights.....maybe it is an airline rule??
great report, thanks for sharing...
we never have any trouble taking duty free onto our flights.....maybe it is an airline rule??
great report, thanks for sharing...
Oct 13th, 2008, 11:26 AM
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Hello, fellow fodorites, I am back again from a long silence. The time in Europe is going to an end and the sun of the East will shine on me soon.
Just one little protest regarding the Evason. I`m proud it is in Pranburi (or in a part of this town called Paknam Pran) and not in Hua Hin. Pranburi has almost as much people living there as Hua Hin. But to be honest, not many guys (even the experts) know it.
For myself it is home for 3 years now and I am happy to stay there.
By the way,
I stayed several years ago at the resort being now an Evason. That time it was owned by a big German travel company and called Club Aldiana.
Just one little protest regarding the Evason. I`m proud it is in Pranburi (or in a part of this town called Paknam Pran) and not in Hua Hin. Pranburi has almost as much people living there as Hua Hin. But to be honest, not many guys (even the experts) know it.
For myself it is home for 3 years now and I am happy to stay there.
By the way,
I stayed several years ago at the resort being now an Evason. That time it was owned by a big German travel company and called Club Aldiana.
Oct 13th, 2008, 06:47 PM
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Flights into Australia have recently (last few years) stopped allowing you to purchase duty free liquor at your embarkation port, regardless of which airline you are on. It is veiled as a security measure but this makes no sense as you are allowed to purchase and take on board on your outbound flight from Australia.
This has purely been introduced to ensure that the duty free shops that pay huge rents to the Australian airport authorities, have no competition against other airport duty free outlets.
I checked prices at both KL and Bangkok last year and they were considerably cheaper than the same product in Melbourne. What happened to FREE TRADE?
This has purely been introduced to ensure that the duty free shops that pay huge rents to the Australian airport authorities, have no competition against other airport duty free outlets.
I checked prices at both KL and Bangkok last year and they were considerably cheaper than the same product in Melbourne. What happened to FREE TRADE?
Oct 13th, 2008, 10:38 PM
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Its a pain about the duty free into Oz isn't it! This end say we have to have tamper proof bags but then you get other versions if you transfer flights. Thai airports just don't sell to you if they know your on a flight to Oz.
I want to tell you, Marko about a cocktail party at the Evanson. We were attending one on our stay - fun too. The then GM and Resident GM were both aussies. They tell a great story about the week before we had arrived. The party was being held upstairs as I expect it still is and the staff were sending up some of the floating lanterns into the air - the ones with a candle in them. Unfortunately one lodged in the palm tree right by the upper storey of the building and set the tree on fire. Well they had recently got their staff firefighting crew in training and they trotted out looking good and ready to put out the fire. Sadly as they swung into action they found the hose just way to short and the water barely reached half way up the tree.
By that time both the GM and the R. Manager were rolling on the floor laughing so were no help at all. Poor tree was quite bare by the time we were there. Obviously they got it out eventually.
I want to tell you, Marko about a cocktail party at the Evanson. We were attending one on our stay - fun too. The then GM and Resident GM were both aussies. They tell a great story about the week before we had arrived. The party was being held upstairs as I expect it still is and the staff were sending up some of the floating lanterns into the air - the ones with a candle in them. Unfortunately one lodged in the palm tree right by the upper storey of the building and set the tree on fire. Well they had recently got their staff firefighting crew in training and they trotted out looking good and ready to put out the fire. Sadly as they swung into action they found the hose just way to short and the water barely reached half way up the tree.
By that time both the GM and the R. Manager were rolling on the floor laughing so were no help at all. Poor tree was quite bare by the time we were there. Obviously they got it out eventually.
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