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Hua Hin
The town was originally known as Ban Samoe Rieng, or Ban Laem Hin (Stony Point Village). The construction of a railway station in the city as part of the Southern Railroad in the reign of King Rama VI resulted in making Hua Hin stand out from many quite fishing villages. In addition, the construction of a Summer Palace of King Rama VII totally transformed the village into a high-society resort town for royalty. Even today, the Royal Family continues to reside at the Palace for part of the year. Hua Hin's consequence came with the opening of the Railway Hotel
(known today as the Sofitel Central Hotel), an elegant Victorian-style resort
hotel, and also the countrys first standard golf course. A cluster of royal and
high-society residences gradually became more visible resulting in the
transformation of the whole village into the first seaside resort of the
country, where visitors could enjoy swimming, fishing, and golfing in the
country's first standard golf course.Today, Hua Hin is a well-established Recommended Hotels
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