We are staying at the resort in a couple of weeks and would like to know what there is to do, good places to eat and if it is easy to get to Hau Hin town centre.
We are also thinking about doing a day trip to Bangkok from Hau Hin by train.
Do you have any advice?
Baan Talay Dao Resort
Stayed at this resort last summer and absolutely loved it (particularly considering what we paid for it).
Lovely communal areas, cute pool, lovely little restaurant (inc breakfast buffet) and wonderful staff. I was a little poorly at one point and they coudn%26#39;t do enough for me.
It%26#39;s probably two miles (maybe a bit more) outside the town centre but that is not a problem at all. There are a few restaurants linked to hotels a short stroll away, but getting into Hua Hin (and back) was not a problem.
From memory they ran a shuttle bus into town (about 6 or 7) but we always went slightly later and the reception would always sort out a private cab (big air conditioned 4x4) which cost under a fiver.
Coming home we either got a songthaew, private cab or a tuk tuk for a bit less (always loads of themlooking for business). Eventually we got the number of one cute old couple in a songthaew and they became our private drivers!!!!!!!
Quite a few good places to eat (have a search on here) but I would recommend Chao Lay restauant on one of the old piers (in act all the pier retaurants were nice), another great one was a vietnamese style restaurant in an old two storey teak house opposite the piers (in Lonely Planet as Cafe Indochine but I think t was actually called Monsoon??).Sawasdee opposite the Hilton was nice and there were many nice nes up in the Night Market.
As for a train trip to Bangkok, then I think that would be too much in one day. I love travelling by Thai railways but speed is not one of their good points!!!! It%26#39;s over 3 1/2 hours each way.
Baan Talay Dao Resort
During daylight hours if you walk down to the road and just wave down the bright-green colored pick-up buses they go along the main road, hop in the back, passing the Hua Hin Market Village shopping Mall, Grand Plaza and continue into the central market area, fare is flat B 10 per person, you can so the same heading back, just ring the bell when you want to get off, hand the money to driver or if someone in the front passenger seat, cheap and easy.
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