Golfers ask me about the weather before they ask me about the courses, and they are right to. Hua Hin is playable twelve months a year, but heat, rain and turf condition each peak at a different point in the calendar, and the month you choose decides whether you are enjoying golf or surviving it.When is the best time to play golf in Hua Hin?The best months to play golf in Hua Hin are mid-November to...
Living on a Hua Hin golf estate without a car is possible, but it depends far more on the estate than on the distance to town. The buyers who make it work picked a community with a clubhouse that sells food and a shuttle that leaves the gate. The ones who gave up within six months picked a beautiful plot and assumed the rest would sort itself out. Can you live on a Hua Hin golf estate without a car?Do...
The enquiries used to come from Europe. Over the past two years a second, very specific profile has appeared in our inbox: owners of villas in Dubai's golf-course communities, most of them fifty-five and over, most of them holding a Golden Visa, all of them asking a version of the same question. What does the same lifestyle cost in Thailand, and what do I actually get to own? The pattern is consistent...
Buyers still call this place Banyan. The signs say Pineapple Valley and BelVida. Both are correct, and the confusion costs people real money when they compare listings that are describing the same estate under three different names. Here is the full picture: what changed, where the community actually sits in relation to the sea, what the villas are, what moves the price, and how a foreign buyer can...