Since I've just spent a week down there being a tourist I thought I'd write a short comparison on the two from a tourism perspective:
http://www.huahinblog.com/2007/04/17/hu ... us-phuket/
I realize things are different in both places out of the "tourist zone" but since most people never get there I concentrated on what I saw in it.
Hua Hin versus Phuket
Hua Hin versus Phuket
Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? - Hunter S Thompson