How safe is Hua Hin after dark?

[khmer]

How safe is it to walk around at night, I dont mean tbe early hours of the morning
What should one look out for
Been to Pattaya but dont know what to expect in HN
Any info would be great, thanks

[Ginjaninja]

As long as you're not walking about dark alleys out of the Tourist zone you will be fine. Take the usual travel precautions and common sense. Take a tuk-tuk to get home to your hotel/apartment after a night in town.
GN.

[khmer]

Thank for your reply, just as I was thinking but wanted to make sure

[chopper666]

if look between pattaya and hua hin, hua hin is far away from pattayas safety. ofcourse common sense have to be with you anywhere where travel. I hope Hua Hin keep this peacefull atmophere and not come same like bigger places. This is one reason why i love Hua Hin.

[Frank La Rue]

On this note, I have never been told by anyone including my own family to take off watch, necklace, leave my mobile at home, hide my baht and keep my credit card in a secret pocket on the inside of my throuser linen,etc.
Nor do any of the Thais I meet.

In Brazil for instance I have been told to do this regularly and have always done, with one exception where I let my gold buddha neclace on.
I was allone in my room prior to going out and it has not got a clasp but the old style Thai gold closing mechanism which isn't a mechanism but a bucke in gold you bend.

It is difficult to open it with your own hands not being able to see what you do. clumsy exercise in front of the mirror, so I let it hang arround my neck. Walking down the road from hotel to a restaurant I got robbed of it. I guy on bicylce in the opposite direction just thore it off whilst riding and was gone.

In LOS I see and feel none of this kind of crime. I feel very safe.

[hhfarang]

The only thing I've ever been warned about by well intentioned farangs and Thais is that I should be careful of a fairly large gold necklace that I've been wearing continuously since 1981 except for when they make me take it off to get an x-ray. Both have warned me that it might get snatched on the street.

I have heard several stories of gangs of young Thais or a gang of ladymen attacking and rolling drunks in the wee hours of the morning, but anyone walking the streets alone drunk between 2 and 4 a.m. deserves what they get imho.

I've been warned simply not to walk after dark in several South American cities as well as in Nairobi and Belize City, so by most world standards, I would consider Hua Hin very safe if you don't do anything stupid.

[Lung Per]

Take the same precautions as you should take any place in the world, i.e.

Don´t roll around dead drunk.

Don´t carry your wallet in your back pocket

Don´t flash you money

Don´t wear jewelry or gold

Don´t go in the park or back alleys after dark

Keep an eye on your drink.

Especially for Thailand, watch out for the ladyboys, they can turn out pretty mean.

Don´t get into a fight with a Thai. Suddenly all his friends will appear out of nowhere and you may end up in the morgue or, at best, in a hospital.

All this should be common sense. Did I miss something? Feel free to add.

[usual suspect]

Lung Per you summed it all up very nicely..

[jackdaniels]

I've had many drunken nights there and have never seen or experienced any problems. Use common sense as anywhere else in the would.

[brokendown]

just spent a week there--no problems at all after dark

[heartofmidlothian]

Hua Hin is much safer than Pattaya or Phuket. Very few fights in the bar areas. Lung Per's advice is spot on.

[pdm3547]

There is trouble everywhere I'm the world. It has more chance of finding you though, if you go around acting like a twat.

[falanglongtime]

Never felt unsafe in Hua Hin and I've often staggered home at 3 or 4 in the morning. Did very nearly got bitten by a dog, but that was the middle of the afternoon. Stared it down and it got bored.

[freddie9]

safe or not it depends on you guy it could be nowhere safe and any place is ook

[chelsea]

I am here at the moment and no problem.Have never ever felt threatened in Hua Hin. Although there are a few lady boys on bikes floating around offering to do allsorts of rude things to you body. Last night they were 2 up on the bikes when I walked home at just after 1.00am when the bars al shut up early.