Hua Hin hotels officially allowed to re-open - now just waiting for tourists

 

Picture: Siam Rath

 

The lifting of restrictions that means hotels in Hua Hin could open yesterday has been met with a lukewarm response from the industry.

 

Prachuap Khirikhan TAT rep Soraya Hormcheun told Siam Rath that only 30 hotels in the area - around ten per cent of TAT registered facilities - had opened.

 

She said there were just no tourists to warrant opening for many hotels who were not ready to comply with new regulations anyway.

 

However, cleaning and planning for a new normal was taking place.

 

Picture: Siam Rath

 

She said her staff had called some hotels who were not answering their phone - this she assumed meant they were still shut. 

 

Some plan to reopen on Friday but others are waiting until June.

 

She urged hotels that open to tell the TAT so that they can be put on the TAT Prachuap page. 

 

Source: Siam Rath

 

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what about lifting the travel ban?

 

7 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

what about lifting the travel ban?

 

One step at a time

And will we be allowed to sit at the same table with our own family members or do we need to scatter across the province for a lunch? ????

i just want to get the hell out of this town. 

 

i don't care if I have to walk naked to Bangkok just get me out of here. 

7 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

i just want to get the hell out of this town. 

 

i don't care if I have to walk naked to Bangkok just get me out of here. 

Well go on then, we needs some laughs at the moment, and the thought of you walking naked????

Maybe i will come and join you, now that would be a sight to behold.

condos here keep renting illegally by the day/week and because they supposedly don't exist they don't need to follow any hotel orientated health/hygiene regs, they'll eventually put many hotels out of business..  

2 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Well go on then, we needs some laughs at the moment, and the thought of you walking naked????

Maybe i will come and join you, now that would be a sight to behold.

so i just remembered the air conditioning people are coming today and I jumped up and ran to the ATM very close to my house and for the first time i totally forgot my mask. 

i walked into the 7 Eleven and the the girl said "Mister! Mask!"

I jogged home double time. 

 

 

10 minutes ago, colinneil said:

 

Maybe i will come and join you, now that would be a sight to behold.

yes the video on TV of the two of us on the side of the highway. 

too bad i would be blurred out. 

 

2 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

yes the video on TV of the two of us on the side of the highway. 

too bad i would be blurred out. 

 

Hua Hin bucket sales surge ????

24 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

i just want to get the hell out of this town. 

 

i don't care if I have to walk naked to Bangkok just get me out of here. 

Why you just dont go? Many people travel return from hua hin to bkk without issues at all and they have been doing it for weeks already. I also went twice in the last 3 weeks. No problems at all.

55 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

i just want to get the hell out of this town. 

 

i don't care if I have to walk naked to Bangkok just get me out of here. 

But, but....the four new cameras with audio are being installed. I can sing 'Stay Little Valentine....stay' in four languages......

I come here every year from Nepal on vacation, right about now for several weeks. I love Hua Hin. Reminds me so much of the Jersey shore where I'm from. We used to go to a place called Seaside Heights NJ, which looked a lot like HH Beach now, but no boardwalk. Very nostalgic place for me, and a great place for a family vacation. But sadly, we won't be coming this year. Hopefully next year... 

55 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

so i just remembered the air conditioning people are coming today and I jumped up and ran to the ATM very close to my house and for the first time i totally forgot my mask. 

i walked into the 7 Eleven and the the girl said "Mister! Mask!"

I jogged home double time. 

 

 

Been there. Mine is now hanging on the inside doorknob.

2 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

so i just remembered the air conditioning people are coming today and I jumped up and ran to the ATM very close to my house and for the first time i totally forgot my mask. 

i walked into the 7 Eleven and the the girl said "Mister! Mask!"

I jogged home double time. 

 

 

lucky you didn't get alcohol sprayed in your face..

 

2 hours ago, ELLHNAS said:

Why you just dont go? Many people travel return from hua hin to bkk without issues at all and they have been doing it for weeks already. I also went twice in the last 3 weeks. No problems at all.

what about checking into hotels? 

5 hours ago, ChipButty said:

One step at a time

No here 1 step forwad and 3 steps back

Well I would love to holiday there for a few days but not untill the bars and restaurants are all open

3 hours ago, colinneil said:

Maybe i will come and join you, now that would be a sight to behold.

You could turn it into a video called A Couple of Farang Bums On the Road.

1 minute ago, RickBradford said:

You could turn it into a video called A Couple of Farang Bums On the Road.

Well mate in my case it would be true, as my legs dont work anymore, my bum would be on the road.

5 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

what about lifting the travel ban?

 

Exactly. I last visited Hua Hin in February (from Bangkok) and would be back in a heartbeat, once it is clear that interprovincial travel is allowed for tourism.

 

6 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

what about lifting the travel ban?

 

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6 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

what about lifting the travel ban?

 

Always the cart before the horse... you know how it works here.

NCC:

 

There are hotels open in Bangkok and Pattaya now.

I would inquire with a few transport or private car services.

People are traveling now of course.  Many of these services can assist with the forms necessary to

get to another province/city if there are checkpoints.

You would probably be fine coming to Pattaya.

Bangkok possibly when you return back to HH, you may have to do a voluntary 14 day quarantine.

In any event, I would check it out with one of these services to get info.

 

7 hours ago, colinneil said:

Well go on then, we needs some laughs at the moment, and the thought of you walking naked????

Maybe i will come and join you, now that would be a sight to behold.

In your Wheel chair Colin, or your rocket scooter?

Well, closing airports for another six weeks or so will not really fill vacant rooms and Thais have a few other problems - MAJOR problems - on their plate before they consider burning cash in overpriced and - in my opinion - pretty boring Hua Hin. 

7 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

i just want to get the hell out of this town. 

 

i don't care if I have to walk naked to Bangkok just get me out of here. 

What's wrong? Little cabin fever? I thought Thailand and hau hin were the greatest place on earth?

Only Hua Hin? What about Bangkok?

9 hours ago, kotsak said:

And will we be allowed to sit at the same table with our own family members or do we need to scatter across the province for a lunch? ????

Only 1 person per hotel room.

7 hours ago, Sydebolle said:

Well, closing airports for another six weeks or so will not really fill vacant rooms and Thais have a few other problems - MAJOR problems - on their plate before they consider burning cash in overpriced and - in my opinion - pretty boring Hua Hin. 

 

You do understand that "boring" is part of the appeal of a weekend getaway from BKK, right? 

 

And one of the things I liked about Thailand is that a weekend away, feet kicked up and relaxing, was just about as cheap as staying in town and entertaining myself.