A private car with a driver down the gulf coast to Hua Hin, priced per vehicle and paid in cash to the driver when you arrive. Suvarnabhumi, Don Mueang, or a hotel in the middle of Bangkok — the sedan costs the same from all three. Only the larger vehicles and the one route that does not start in Bangkok move the number.
฿2,000 — the sedan fare from all three, and it does not change if your flight lands at midnight or if the traffic on Rama II is the traffic on Rama II. Tolls are in it. Nothing is added at the other end.
Every fare here runs in the other direction for the same money. Going back up to catch a flight is the same booking with the ends swapped.
The SUV and the van are not the same from all three. Don Mueang and the city centre cost a little more for the five-seater than Suvarnabhumi does, which is a quirk of the list and not a mistake; the figures above are read live from it.
Pattaya and Hua Hin sit on opposite shores of the same gulf, roughly eighty kilometres apart across the water and nearly four hundred by road, because the road goes up around the top through Bangkok. It is the only run on our list that does not begin in Bangkok, and it is the only one that costs more.
Five hours is most of a driver's day. On this one we say plainly which it will be — one driver with real breaks, or two — and a second driver changes the price. Ask before you book.
Hua Hin is on the Southern Line and the station is the most photographed building in town — the royal waiting room, red on cream, which is where the look of this site comes from. The train runs from Krung Thep Aphiwat in about three hours at best, eight to ten times a day, and costs a fraction of a car. We are not going to pretend it does not exist.
| By car, with us | By train | |
|---|---|---|
| Door to door | 2 h 30 – 3 h, hotel to hotel | 3 h at best on the train, plus getting to the station at each end |
| Cost | ฿2,000 for the whole car | A few hundred baht each |
| Luggage | Whatever fits in the boot. No weighing, no fee. | Yours to carry, on and off, with a step up |
| Departures | When you say | Eight to ten a day, and they run late as often as not |
| With children or a lot of bags | The obvious answer | Possible, and harder than it sounds |
| Worth it when | You are arriving off a flight, travelling as a group, carrying golf clubs, or you want the door of your hotel | You are two people travelling light and the journey is part of the point |
If you take the train down and want the car for the way back, that is a perfectly normal booking and the fare is the same in that direction. We can also meet a train — give us the service number rather than a time, because the time is the part that moves.
None of this is on the published list. All of it is a normal afternoon's work and we price it by message.
The figure turns on where you are staying and how long you want to keep the car, so tell us both. Times below are from the beach road.
There is a whole guide to Hua Hin on this site, written properly: eight chapters on the town, the beaches, the markets, the palaces, the vineyards and what to do with three days.
Said out loud so you do not spend a message finding out.
Ask for these when you book, not on the day. A child seat is +฿100 and we need the child's age so the right size is fitted before the car leaves. A name sign at the arrivals gate is +฿100. A stop on the way — a 7-Eleven, the Cha-am beach road, lunch — is usually free if it is short, and a real detour gets quoted first, so ask. A Thai eSIM, 500 MB over 7 days, is free but only if you put it in the notes when you book; it is not sent automatically and we would rather say so here.
Two house rules, so the next passenger gets a clean car: no eating in the vehicle, drinks are fine, and no smoking of any kind including vapes.
Hua Hin Taxis