Udon to Hua Hin, how should we go?

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Udon to Hua Hin, how should we go?

Post by Ropes » March 24, 2013, 10:44 am

Hi Guys

Just reading this thread and you may want to know there is now a daily executive bus service from Suvarnabhumi Airport to Hua Hin and vice versa for only 305 baht each way.
It's an excellent service by all reports so if you wanted to have a few days by the beach etc this may be an alternative and cheaper route to use. The web site is as follows
http://airporthuahinbus.com/

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Post by Barney » March 24, 2013, 12:50 pm

If you decide to drive or any one else driving any where just log into Travelmate.com.au
Click on the small "mapmaker" tab, enter your from and to locations and up will pop a directional map and below a line by line direction with all the exact kilometer and meters, plus thai route numbers. Print it out and away you go.
Used it a number of times and been successful?

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Post by jackspratt » March 24, 2013, 1:09 pm

Barney I tried Travelmate, but with their server being located in Oz, the connection was brutishly slow.

You can get exactly the same detail, and a whole lot quicker, by using google Maps http://maps.google.com/ , and simply typing <from (eg Udon Thani) to (eg Hua Hin)> into the search box.

In fact, Travelmate looks like it has been lifted directly from google Maps.

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Post by Barney » March 24, 2013, 2:41 pm

Hi Jackspratt,

I have never had the slow access problem, used it for a number of years now especially when i had a work truck while in Map ta Phut area. Had to find my own way around when the driver was off evenings and on weekends and when would travel Pattaya to KK. If google is the same then that is an excellent alternative. I have aways had the mapmaker tab listed as a favourite on the laptop and it comes up quickly.
Thanks for the hint about google.
I find printing the rpute out much easier for my little TG to understand :lol: and read instead of the normal road map. Saves a lot of confusion. \:D/

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Post by redwolf » March 24, 2013, 5:28 pm

Rideswings wrote:Jorg can you tell me how much the bus cost to bangkok from Udon and did you go VIP? What time did you depart Udon and arrive in BKK? Did you take a taxi from the clock center to your hotel? Is the Hua Hin water clear as Phuket or dark and murky like Pattaya? :)

Thanks everyone.
guys (if you are driving, OP looks to be bussing it), I just did this run with the wife & kids. There are some handy roads that cut across the top of Bangkok that save you from the mess, check the map below... if you go balls out pedal to the metal no stopping except for gas and one quick 20 minute meal you can do Cha Am to Udon in 10 hours flat on a weekday average 120KM per hour with a couple lulls where there's congestion. you leave at 10 you get in my 8. That misses all rush hour traffic along the route.

the map covers Korat to just above Cha Am.

North to South it's AH12 to the 9 to the 346 to the 321 to the 4. GPS is useful if you want to save time and not miss any exits, the roads here are hardly intuitive.

When night hits, first few bastards that ride up your back, figure out which one knows the roads after they pass you. If they keep 120km steady even through pitch black perfect precision, those are the tail lights to guide off of & follow all the way. Cuts another 45 mins off the trip easy.

OP -as for the water, it's murky. I wouldn't swim in it and I used to surf Venice Beach California back when we'd turn green from who knows what was being dumped out there.

I was hoping for the nice stuff but the Gulf looks to be more about freight shipping than beauty. The open ocean e.g. Andaman side is much more beautiful, I'd rate the gulf a 4 or 5, and the Andaman an 8, on a scale of one to ten, places like Hawaii or the Maldives being the 9's & 10's.

If you take the bus go VIP no matter what. And try to avoid getting sat in the middle of the bottom section as that's where the toilet is on some of the crap busses.
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Post by jackspratt » March 24, 2013, 6:42 pm

redwolf wrote: ......... I just did this run with the wife & kids. if you go balls out pedal to the metal no stopping except for gas and one quick 20 minute meal..............
Can we deduce from the above that your wife is not Thai? :D

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Post by WhoUrDaddy » March 25, 2013, 12:57 am

wow, this was the very first post i replied to, way back when, it was about the post, and not the poster. oh well.

i do this trip a couple times a year, just got back couple days ago, and leaving again in 10 days. i do it less than 10 hours, stick to main roads, route 2 / 1, bypass bkk on route 9 then 35 / 4.

never tried redwolf's route or night driving, though may give it a try, got bogged down last time returning, took 8 hours alone, from samut sakhon, though i definitely left wrong time of day. usually do it in just over 9 hours, leaving early AM, beats KK rush hour, and after Korat rush hour. top of bkk before noon, always a weekday.

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Post by redwolf » March 25, 2013, 3:14 pm

jackspratt wrote:
redwolf wrote: ......... I just did this run with the wife & kids. if you go balls out pedal to the metal no stopping except for gas and one quick 20 minute meal..............
Can we deduce from the above that your wife is not Thai? :D
LOL Jack No it's just that from the trip down to Cha Am, she saw how long it took when we did it the girlyboy way. She's the one who has to handle the 7 year old and the 1 year old, diaper changes and all.

Stopping at every PTT along the way. Plus the GPS fk'd us over in the mountains of Pak Chong such that we couldn't even get to the cutesy resort cabin we booked for an overnight pit stop. So we went through to Saraburi at night just as the freight traffic stacked up, hard rain, and ruthless local drivers tailgating & (trying to) cut us off. Hotel sucked, food sucked. So going down it was 1 day (form being lost w/ GPS) + overnight hotel + half day. Then baby got sick.

So for the return trip when I suggested a single decisive thrust through the entire return route w/ no BS she was in full support of it and stuck to the game plan.

Moral of the story for anyone driving a long route like this:

There's no romance or relaxation, take a fk'ng plane.
It's dangerous even if you have a lot of driving experience, take a fk'ng plane.
The water down there ain't so purty, take a fk'ng plane and a boat to some pretty island.

Having rode many a bus here, I'd have to say the same. Just an opinion.
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