Nice Ocean Location For Older Couple

[vagabond48]

My wife's Chinese parents are visiting us in Chiang Mai for a month in February 2013. She wants to take them to either an island or a pleasant coast beach town for 5 to 7 days. They love nice fresh sea food. The beach must be clean. They are in their mid 70's and are used to Kunming China weather which is dry with high summer temperature's in the mid 20 Celsius.They're not very active but enjoy walking. Since I am footing the bill I would like to keep the cost of a clean and comfortable room to 700 to 1000B a day per room, if possible. Since we are coming from Chiang Mai, I would prefer to minimize the amount of traveling.

With all the above wish list, does anyone have any good suggestions?

Thanks!

[craigt3365]

How will you be traveling? By car or public transport? If by car, you might consider Chantaburi. Beautiful beaches and "cheaper" accommodation there. Hua Hin/Cha Am is also a good option.

[williewolf]

Just came back from Ban Krut. Very quiet and good beaches. Large bottle of beer in the beach hut restaurants 50 baht. Plenty of fresh seafood on the menus.

[craigt3365]

Just came back from Ban Krut. Very quiet and good beaches. Large bottle of beer in the beach hut restaurants 50 baht. Plenty of fresh seafood on the menus.

One of my favorite places! Bang Saphan is pretty nice also!!

[chainarong]

Hua Hin/Cha Am, lovely spot.

[Hedghog]

Fly Chang Mai / BKK.

Taxi BKK/Hua Hin or Cha Am

Both,good spots reasonable priced accommodation available,not exhausting travel.

[Ricardo]

Fly CNX-HDY direct (Air Asia or Nok from 1st Jan), then minibus to Krabi or Koh Lanta ?

[Chaam local]

Maybe they would like Cha-am, it's famous for its fresh sea food and you can walk along the beach (5 km long). Accomodation is affordable, weather is not too humid. Not sure about beach cleanliness as I hardly ever go these days. Week-ends are busy, so if they need a quiet place you could look further down south, like Bang Saphan or Ban Krut, as mentioned above. The further south you go, the nicer the beaches are.

[Khun Jean]

Two places i can think of.

Chantaburi and Ban Krut. Both lovely, clean beaches, fresh seafood, pretty 'flat' so easy for walking or yes bicycling.

Chantaburi even has a nice touristic route which was a little 'unreal' the first time i saw it because it had excellent roads, and had a more European feel of cleanliness and attention to details like rest areas, bicycles paths lighting etc.

Not very common in Thailand.

[petertucker48]

There is a bus direct from CM to HH at around ฿800 10 hours.