Recommendable Overnight Stay Hua Hin To Samui (Via Donsak)

[easyas]

Does anyone have a favourite overnight resting place for the weary traveller from Hua Hin to Samui (via Donsak) they are prepared to divulge?

[gamini]

The best Hotel in Hua Hin is the Sofitel. But it depends how much you want to spend. The Sailom is cheaper but very nice.too.

[soi41]

HH-Don Sak, with a couple of breaks is easily done in 7-8 hours, so really no need for an overnight stay. Chumporn you wiill reach in 3 hours, so to early to rest. A couple of hours later you will reach Surat Thani, that being so close to Don Sak, that you might as well go all the way.

[Sydneycraig]

Ban krood shows as thong chai on google maps.... Nice enough beach with a fair few small resorts and bungalows ...

[Sydneycraig]

One nightclub/bar on the beach heading south looked quite cool but I only saw it riding out the next morning... It's quite a Thai weekender sort of place so a bit more going on at weekends...lots of nice coast roads north/south too

[craigt3365]

There's lots of nice places to stop along the way. Bang Saphan is pretty nice. Here's one I've visited before, but never spent the night:

http://www.bansaithong.com/index.php

Ban Kruit is great. I like this resort:

http://www.rachavadee.net/site/

Just south of the ferry is Khanom. Quite a few resorts there. I stayed at Khanom Golden Beach Hotel. They arranged a ride for us from the ferry to their hotel, and then into town to catch a bus over to Krabi. It's a bit out of town, but was super cheap during the low season. Quite a few hotels in the main part of town. A few looked quite nice.

[harryviking]

Hua Hin to Donsak is only about 400km. Good roads all the way. Why stop?? I normaly drive that way in 5 hours.

[Sydneycraig]

If you go by scooter and like exploring on the way then a stop helps!

[soi41]

Hua Hin to Donsak is only about 400km. Good roads all the way. Why stop?? I normaly drive that way in 5 hours.

HH to Don Sak is almost 520 km. Averaging over 100km/h ? Another F1 driver in a Fortuner ??

[harryviking]

I normaly go from cha-am to donsak diredtly. On moyorcycle. Measured approx. 520km on the clock. 5h35min. No F1! But fast enough...

[easyas]

It might only be 520km and the roads might be good (by Thailand standards) - they certainly weren't when I made the trip up from Samui a year or so back - but I'm driving a Nissan Navara King Cab, not a Ferrari (I sold that years ago). 7 or 8 hours it probably may be allowing for a couple of prostrate stops, but then there's the probable wait in the Donsak ferry car park - if you're very lucky no wait at all, if you're very unlucky and the ferry's just left a 2 hour wait for the next one, so let's say 1 hour, then there's another 1 1/2 hours on the ferry itself, disembarking and another 30 - 40 minutes drive to my friend's house.

So that's why I'll overnight somewhere, preferably an hour or two south of Chumphon.

Ri Sawi Beach?

Laem Son Beach?

Tawan Chai Beach?

Or a little way north of Suratthani:

Tha Chana?

Nai Amphoe Beach?

Any recommendations?

[sitta]

Hi All,

I will be driving from Surat Thani airport to Chiang may, will stop and rest two nights on the way, any advice on overnight resting place with safe car parking?

[easyas]

Hi All,

I will be driving from Surat Thani airport to Chiang may, will stop and rest two nights on the way, any advice on overnight resting place with safe car parking?

Fly! Two overnights not enough. The roads are already atrocious and getting worse the further north you go as the wet season takes hold!

[Sydneycraig]

If in a car I'd say two is fine..

[sitta]

If in a car I'd say two is fine..

Toyota Altis 1.L Auto, any advice on where to stop for two nights?

[Sydneycraig]

Depends if you are in a rush? If not stop a few places and look around...if you are stop 1/2 way which is probably bkk or kanchanaburi

[Sydneycraig]

Or If in a real rush just crash out in the car at a 24 hr petrol station for a few hrs

[sitta]

I will land around 12.30, by the time on the road may be around 13:30, would like to stop for the night around 7PM..

[easyas]

I will land around 12.30, by the time on the road may be around 13:30, would like to stop for the night around 7PM..

Hey Sitta,

Will excuse you hijacking my thread just this once, but this thread was about overnight accomodation Hua Hin to Donsak!

Can't offer you any constructive advice re hotels going north, but please don't ignore the warning I gave you in an earlier post re the appalling road conditions you face! Only two days ago I had the occasion to travel from Hua Hin to Prachuab and back. In both directions the road was liberally festooned with heavy potholes between Prachuab and Pranburi, going north slightly worse than going south. And these are big, big potholes! Centurion tank size - I exaggerate only just a little!

Add to that the rain! On the way back north the heavens opened around 3.00pm; so much so that I would have pulled off to the side of the road, save for the fact that the side of the road was no longer visible!

I live in Hua Hin, so I can tell you the wet season is already upon us - that afternoon deluge now happens every day.

Just watch out!

Phuket to Chiang Mai 2 hours by plane!

[sitta]

ok,point taken, will butt out.

[easyas]

ok,point taken, will butt out.

OK, no drama!

Please just take heed of my "road condition report" - I'm only trying to help!