[QUOTE=FunMan13;2255497]I will arrive in Bangkok on December 31. I wonder what will New Year's Eve be like in Bangkok. I will go to Hua Hin on January 5 for four nights. I have read this thread going back 48 pages all the way to January 2009. I did this over several years and have used the info for several trips to Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai.
May I suggest that someone who is a regular here starts a dedicated Hua Hin & Cha-am thread (maybe also for Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, etc), or group the towns by regions (Northeast, Northwest, Central East, Central West, etc.). This will allow us to do research easier and may encourage more people to post.
Anyway, I hope to post good info when I hit the ground.
Happy Mongering.
Funman13.[/QUOTE]Good strategy Funman. I am living in Hua Hin for 6 weeks now. I do not claim to be an expert. IMHO Hua Hin gets a bad rap about only having high mileage providers. They certainly do but there is no shortage of the so called diamonds in the rough. Soi Bintabaht seems fairly busy now. Soi 80 is pretty slow and perhaps a buyers market and the ladies are eager. Numerous massage shops are on the northern fringes of Soi Bintabaht leading to Soi 57 which has a high concentration of them. 99% of them do not even pretend to be other than knock shops. There are a fair number of young attractive women mixed in with the old fatties. I got a pretty good oil massage with HJ finish for 600 baht the other day. She asked how much I would pay and that is what she accepted. As a retreat from the din I chill at Meeting Point bar on Soi 57 with good music, relaxed people and a single pool table always in use. No ladies for takeout in Meeting Point but the massage ladies are a steady stream and seem similar to freelancers. It is also my opinion that the Hua Hin scene may not be big enough and varied enough to warrant a separate thread. I have not mongered in Cha Am. If there are any little hidden areas not reported on, somebody please chime in.
C4 T.
