HUA HIN GRAND HOTEL AND PLAZA

Home a decent size. Shower gel and shampoo. No tea facilities. Frustrating that no socket near bed. I always carry an ext for that reason! Small fridge but on a door card. Strangely with a bit of wind the hotel howls quite loudly. This happened earlier in year too. So its a feature.. breakfast was decent all in price 1300bhat

We stayed for 1 night as a couple in July 2023. We asked to see the rooms before booking. At first we thought we would pay the extra for a deluxe room but when we saw it we noted that the side window was very dirty and so the extra view was null. So then it was just a slightly larger room and tea/coffee facilities. We decided to take the superior instead. The centre windows in this room (9011) were clean but the ones on the side were still dirty. The view is good, you are back from the beach a little bit but you still have a pretty good perspective from your room. The room itself is a bit old tired and basic but we expected that before arriving and we felt for the price we paid (900/n) it was completely adequate. The gym is very basic and small, the one treadmill is old and small as well but does work, albeit quite noisily. The pool is old style but still nice with a small kiddy pool and a spa but I don't think the bubbles work. The cons to the hotel is that you have to cross the busy road to access the beach and there isn't really a public road nearby to take you down to the beach, you have to walk a couple hundred metres to reach one. We did end up ducking through the hotel directly opposite where you cross the road and no one said anything but we did feel like interlopers. The hotel does offer a shuttle service to the beach but we didn't use it. Next door to the hotel in the evenings a number of pop up bars, cafes and restaurants open, often with some live music as well which is really nice. Also a pool table there. Just around corner is a 711, massive Tops supermarket (with restaurant, prepared meals with microwave, cafe and indoor air con seating) and also a liquor store with lovely indoor and outdoor seating. About 500 metres away is the Village Market mall, which is good for many reasons but especially The Street food style basement food court with cheap and delicious meals. The superior room also didn't come with a hairdryer or tea/coffee, kettle or tea cups. While I know we were only paying 900, I still think tea/coffee facilities should be standard. To the hotel's credit when we asked for these things they did readily provide them. The other issues we had was that the shower didn't really provide warm water. When you pulled the knob to send the water to the shower instead of the bath tap, it instead seemed to send all the cold water to the shower and the warm water still came out the bath tap. We didn't complain about it so the hotel may have been able to fix it or change us to a room with a better shower. The other issue for me is that in our room there was a wifi router mounted in the ceiling with a bright green light that really illuminated the room at night. I'm someone who needs a dark room to sleep well. Normally when this happens I can drape a towel or something over the light but because it was on the ceiling I couldn't. Ultimately we had a pleasant stay and certainly if there were no other options or our budget was a hard 900 a night we would consider staying there. However, we opted to pay a bit more and stay somewhere else instead