thegrogmonster

OK. To book your tickets you can either do it online or go to their booking office at Bali Hai pier. It may pay to check the weather and book closer to the days of travel as they do not refund your money if the trip is cancelled. At the pier it is a bit like the airport where you need to go to a checkin counter where they punch a hole in your ticket. You then go to another area to have your luggage scanned. When you are at the pier near the gangway you drop your bags off in a designated area. The luggage gets loaded onto the boat by the crew. The boat leaves Pattaya at 13:00 and is supposed to take 2 hours but we arrived in Hua Hin 30 minutes late. The boat arrives in Hua Hin in a little inlet about 7kms out of the main town area. It is a bit of a shambles when the crew unloaded the bags as everyone justs crowds around the gangway and creates one large bottleneck. At the pier it is the normal kaos with taxi touts trying to get you on their taxi to take you into town. There were 4 of us and our girls were trying to get us our own separate taxi but all the touts were offering shared rides it seems. We walked over to an empty baht bus and the girls got us the price of 500 baht for the 4 of us. We piled in the back and then the games started with the driver. He said he wasn't ready yet to leave. Then he said he needed a smoke before he went. What he was actually doing was looking for a single traveller to put in the front with him for the trip into town. He did find someone and then we set off. Takes about 15 minutes to travel from the pier into the main area of Hua Hin. I thought for the distance that 500 baht for the 4 of us as reasonable. So from the time we left Pattaya till we got to our hotel was a bit over 3 hours. Hope this helps. Update: Looks like you can get a Grab taxi from Hua Hin town back to the pier for around 250 baht.

Thank you Gentlemen.

I read somewhere that there is a night market in Hua Hin where you can have a few beers and a good feed. Could anyone provide details to its location. Apologies if it has already been mentioned on this thread.

On the ferry going to Hua Hin for a couple of nights. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Enjoy your trip.

Are you headiing straight up to the village?

That's my wife's task.

Dodging the local bar know it all at Murphy’s bar. He bored me shitless for a couple of hours yesterday. I need to be careful as he told me he is an ex UK army paratrooper. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Just installed a TV in the bedroom of our house in Pattaya. Been in the house for 18 years and never needed to as I would always be on the go but as I get older more time gets spent at the home. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The view across the lake from the land.

Our 1 rai of land on Lake Charknok just outside Pattaya.

Boredom won, it is off to the pub I go. One of the wife’s friends husband asked me yesterday how does your wife feel about you drinking all the time. I’m not sure he liked my reply that if I was ever worried about that I might actually ask her. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Trying to decide whether to go to Murphy's bar now for a few ciders or wait a few more hours. At this stage feel like a bit of a quiet day after the excess of the last few days.

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Jomtien. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Waiting for the sun to come up so I can jump on the scooter and go exploring for an hour or so before breakfast. Yesterday was Naklua and this morning will be Jomtien.

Naklua seafood market. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sorry no he doesn't.

Deciding whether to buy this TV for the bedroom. The brother-in-law installs air cons for Nomchai and needs to visit them tomorrow so he is going to see what price they will do for him on this or something similar. https://www.lazada.co.th/products/sharp-hd-led-smart-tv-32-lc-32sa4500x-i266733799-s416478721.html?spm=a2o4m.searchlistcategory.list.19.24f7566dckcOAg&search=1

I have still been waking up each morning at 4am even though I am on holidays. Then again I am mad as well.

Reading the forum and seeing that most threads keep repeating the word "Boom" for some reason. Wondering what does it mean?