Re: Pattaya-Hua Hin ferry to begin on New Year's Day
Hua Hin and Pattaya are poles apart - if you like the scene in one, you'll hate the other - and vice versa.
It follows that a ferry only makes sense as a short cut for vehicles - not footie tourists..
I also know that the townsfolk of Hua Hin are not enthusiastic - they think it will bring more trouble than THB..
Re: Pattaya-Hua Hin ferry to begin on New Year's Day
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llz
Interesting quote, but I'll only be a believer once it's started.
That quote focuses only on Pattaya's pier problems ... but in fact it's also a problem on the other side. Unless this rather secretive new pier apparently being built between Hua Hin and Cha Am is ready on time, there is no other pier that I know of which can take that size of boat.
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I also know that the townsfolk of Hua Hin are not enthusiastic - they think it will bring more trouble than THB..
Well that's a pretty broad generalization, especially the " ... I also know ... " part. I've lived here for ten years now and the best generalization I would even pretend to give was that most of the folks I've talked to are simply underwhelmed regarding the whole concept.
Re: Pattaya-Hua Hin ferry to begin on New Year's Day
This article now from the Bangkok Post today includes photos of the boat and more information about the proposed service..
http://www.bangkokpost.com/travel/in...e-until-jan-15
Surfcrest
Re: Pattaya-Hua Hin ferry to begin on New Year's Day
According to that Bangkok Post article the vessel can carry 329 , yes 329 people! Enjoy your crossing...
Re: Pattaya-Hua Hin ferry to begin on New Year's Day
gerefan2 wrote:
"According to that Bangkok Post article the vessel can carry 329 , yes 329 people! Enjoy your crossing..."
Yes. And stay near the life jackets at all times.
Re: Pattaya-Hua Hin ferry to begin on New Year's Day
Here you go. Nice looking boat. And I particularly like the company name. The Royal Passenger Liner Co. Nicely grand and in honour of the great trans-Atlantic liner companies of yesteryear such as Cunard and The White Star Line.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/gene...e-until-jan-15
Re: Pattaya-Hua Hin ferry to begin on New Year's Day
Perhaps poster meant to say "Stay IN your life jackets at all times". That's certainly what I would be doing.
Re: Pattaya-Hua Hin ferry to begin on New Year's Day
while I would certainly stay near the life jackets at all times, it still might (actually it WILL) be safer - albeit dearer - than Minivan-rides from PTY to BKK and further on to HH. No life jacket has been invented yet to rescue your squeezed body from a chunk of metal after your Minivan-Madman-Driver swallowed one of those funny coloured pills too many
Re: Pattaya-Hua Hin ferry to begin on New Year's Day
Well, we shall see what happens tomorrow morning. I'm walking over there to the fisherman's wharf around 8 am and will let you know ASAP. According to the Bangkok Post the first regular customers will be taken over to Pattaya at 8:30am ... with a return sailing back to HH at around 3:30pm.
I'm still somewhat skeptical about this, but cannot but be less so now than I was a few months ago. That HH wharf not so long ago was a mess and in need of a makeover, but perhaps that has already happened ... if so then it's not Thai-like (which would be to take 6 months fixing it up) but one mighty renovation in the dead of night.
If all this comes to pass I will try it out during the the 'free' dates. :dirol_mini:
Re: Pattaya-Hua Hin ferry to begin on New Year's Day
He said sheepishly . . .
Sorry, I missed the boat time (8:30am) at Hua Hin pier. Woke up this morning with a splitting headache. No idea why :blush:
So still have no knowledge whether it went, didn't went, or sunk.
Back to bed ...
News published when known.