Hua Hin with Kids: The Family Guide

Here is a list of what to do in Hua Hin with kids:

1. Vana Nava Water Jungle

Located just south of the centre of the city, about five-minute drive from Bluport, our kids loved our visit to Vana Nava. With over twenty attractions over three hectares, this is the premier water park.

We visited in peak season, and it was pretty much empty, the queues never being more than three deep.

There are heaps of rides where you can ride on inflatables as a couple or family. Minimum height does apply for some rides so check before going. For example, our boy was too small to go on the Abyss ride.

Tickets are expensive if paid directly either at the door or on the Vana Nava website. We would’ve paid 6,800 baht but we managed to get a sizeable discount by booking with Trip.com for 3,839 baht, a 44% saving.

We took the package option which included a buffet, towels and lockers. The buffet was pretty good, being open to visit as many times as you like during your stay. Pretty good for those constantly hungry bellies.

Note that they check your bag before entering to restrict bringing in food and drinks from outside (water seemed ok if in a personal water bottle but not a plastic store purchased bottle).

Book your Discounted Vana Nava Tickets HERE

2. Black Mountain Water Park

Located fifteen minutes inland and slightly smaller than Vana Nava, this was by no means less fun, as once again the kids loved it.

With nine different slides, an infinity pool, a lazy river, a wave machine and lagoon, a kid’s pool, restaurant and a much more laid-back feel, this is a great cheaper alternative to Vana Nava.

And if Vana Nava was close on empty, we went here twice and both times I could count the number of people there on two hands. You won’t need to wait for a ride at all.

We paid 1,300 baht for entry (cheaper booking ahead online) and took our own towels and didn’t need a locker as didn’t feel our stuff was in any danger left in the seating area. But towel rental and lockers were cheap anyway.

Book Discounted Black Mountain Tickets HERE

3. Parrotdise Organic Farm

Located about fifteen minutes inland, Jeff, a Dutch expat runs this cafe and farm for families to visit.

Jeff keeps goats, pigs, rabbits, guinea pigs, tortoises and many species of parrot, which are tame enough to fly around and land on visitors’ shoulders.

On a Tuesday from 10.30am he runs a weekly activity from scavenger hunts, walking with goats to baking cookies.

These activities are free although it’s expected you’ll spend some money in the cafe which is slightly more expensive than what you would pay elsewhere, but the food is good and it’s a great place for the kids to be kept busy, meet other kids and a chance for the parents to (try) take some time out.

4. Treeoh Curiosity Cafe, Soi 102

Run by Tim and Nat, this is another great place for kids and parents to socialise, centrally located a stone’s throw from Bluport.

On a Saturday they have cooking classes for a small fee and on a Wednesday they have a family catch up, sometimes with a bouncy castle.

There is a treehouse and swing for the kids to play with, as well as other activities like rock painting, games, toys etc. And beanbags and a nice cafe area for the parents to chill out on.

5. Loch Camp Cafe (and Meet-Up)

At the time we were there, there was a weekly expat-run Storytime session on a Thursday from around 11.30am which was another great place for kids to meet and play, and for parents to connect.

Located about fifteen minutes by taxi from Bluport heading South, Loch Camp is a cafe with a huge back lawn with a decent playground and heaps of space for the kids to burn off energy.

There is an entry fee of 100 baht which you get discounted off if you buy something from the cafe. So, even if there is no meet-up, this is still a good place to come with the kids.

6. Beaches

See the beaches section above. Each of the beaches all have activities happy to take your money. You will find:

• Horse rides (for reference, we paid 100 baht for ten minutes at Cha-am beach but 200 baht at Takiab)
• Inflatable rides: tied to the back of a jet ski and pulled out to sea: banana boats, inflatable sofas etc. Negotiate and get for 120 baht per person.
• Jet ski hire: if your kids are older or you want to take them out. This isn’t something we have done so cannot quote a price.

7. Cicada Market

As well as selling food, as mentioned in the food section above, Cicada market is a great place to wander around at weekend evenings. They have live music and a magic show at 7.45pm each night.

The market sells all kinds of unique crafts. This isn’t plastic junk like the Night Market (see below), this is mostly locally crafted products and worth a visit.

8. Night Market

The Night Market on Hua Hin 72, is the classic tourist market selling Chang Beer and 7-Eleven T-shirts, tacky souvenirs and tons of plastic toys. It’s a good place for a bargain and open every night, always busy.

9. Art and Craft Cafes

There are several Art and Craft cafes in Hua Hin where the kids can spend hours being creative. We visited two of them:

Le Studio Art Cafe at Hua Hin 112

This cafe has a huge array of options for kids to create. They have a menu to choose from the dozens of projects lined up on the shelves. Projects like clay modelling, paints, mosaics, amongst many other crafts.

Prices vary from 50 baht to 400 baht depending on the materials being used.

Parents can either drop kids off as they are supervised by the staff there, or can just hang out and read, work, eat, drink while waiting in the spacious cafe area.

Ninepunn Cafe at 15 Hin Lek Fai

Located fifteen minutes from Bluport, very similar to Le Studio but we found it was jam packed, smaller with less choice. But still heaps of fun to get creative and similar prices.

10. Harborland

Located on the third floor of Bluport shopping mall, this huge indoor soft play zone opened while we were there in December 2025.

Covering 3,500 sqm it is massive and from our experience, it never gets crazy busy.

There are slides, heaps of soft play areas, trampolines, a mini zip line, computer games, inflatable world, and a bucking bronco.

And then there’s Harbor Town: a mini town where the kids can play different roles of different jobs: from being a barber, chef, farm worker, vet, dentist, mechanic, baker, musician amongst other roles.

Tickets are quite expensive at 440 baht per child (over 80cm, otherwise 170 baht) plus at least one adult must go in at 170 baht. However, if you can keep your kids awake, they can go half price after 6pm.

There are heaps of break-out spaces for parents to get their head into a book, chat with friends or catch up on work, including a massage chair.

Being only the third day since opening, we were lucky to experience everything fresh and clean with no yucky sticky stuff on the toys.

11. Shopping

Whilst we had no intention to come away and spend time in malls, we somehow ended up in both quite a lot.

Bluport

Bluport has five levels, including a cinema, a roller-skating rink, a useful large Big C supermarket, a twice weekly second-hand market (useful when travelling on a budget) and it’s now got Harborland (kids’ soft play). The main food court is well priced, even if a little soulless.

Market Village

Very similar to Bluport with five levels containing a food court, market stalls, a large Lotus supermarket, and a large technology department taking up a whole floor.

12. Siam Venezia

Siam Venezia is a Venetian themed park with various attractions, each accessible depending on which ticket you buy.

The cheapest ticket at 200 baht per adult and free for kids, gets you four attractions which include the petting farm, upside down world, the king and queen costume photo shoot and the European garden (complete with its own version of Rome’s Trevi Fountain).

For extra costs, you can ride a gondola on a man-made Venetian canal, and the 3D gallery is meant to be awesome. They also have a cafe and reasonably priced gift shop.

Despite having a reputation as one of the most expensive flops (allegedly it cost USD $35m to build around 2015), we found this a good place to spend an hour and a half, and the kids seemed to enjoy it heaps.

It’s located about fifteen minutes north from Bluport on the road up to Cha-am. You’ll very likely find that you have this massive open space to yourself.

13. The Artist Village

Located about a fifteen-minute drive inland, this small artist village is home to several artist galleries with interesting artwork, crafts and sculptures. It’s a scenic place with a cafe next to a large pond.

They have craft activities for the kids to take part in for a small fee. There is also a museum with all things art for an extra small fee.

14. Hutsadin Elephant Foundation

Not to be confused with the Elephant Village (where you can ride elephants however we heard of concerns about the elephants’ welfare), at Hutsadin Elephant Foundation, rides on the elephants are not permitted. It is a sanctuary for rescued elephants. At the time of our visit, they had four elephants.

It cost us 2,400 baht for the four of us. For this we got thirty minutes with one of the elephants, going for a walk, stopping and feeding it and then hosing it down after the walk.

The whole magical experience felt a little rushed but with each elephant eating 200kg of food per day, it’s good to know that the money goes towards the upkeep of the foundation and feeding the elephants.

This was a truly memorable experience for the whole family to be so close with these gracious animals.

15. The Chocolate Factory

Technically this is not a Willy Wonka style factory. There is a small window where you can watch some sweet things being crafted but this is actually a proper restaurant. We went twice, once just for the chocolate desserts and another time for a full meal. We weren’t overly impressed with the main menu but chocolate desserts is what they specialise in – and they’re damn good! 

The Dark Chocolate Lava cake came with some form of dry ice display so if you do order it, have your cameras ready. The presentation, service and taste were exceptional here.

16. Queen’s Park (Best on a Friday Night)

Queen’s park located at the northern end of town is a playground with pathways and a nice garden area located next to the beach.

Outside of a Friday, it’s a quiet place to visit but on a Friday night there is a street food market and live music, and the place is busy with locals and the odd tourist. There’s also a very popular pop-up open air barbers if you need a haircut.

17. Wat Huay Mongkol and Deer Park

Located about twenty minutes inland, at this temple there is a huge statue of a monk, sometimes referred to as a Buddha. It’s free entry and you can walk up the steps and walk around the giant statue. There’s a small gong at the top for the kids to bash.

There is also a very beautiful temple to explore nearby. There are plenty of food options around too.

Just a two-minute drive or short walk away, in the same complex, is a Deer Park where for a small donation, the kids can get some food to feed some deer.

Also of interest in this complex is a walkway by the lake that has some huge fish for the kids to feed. There are vendors or machines to buy fish food from.

18. Observation Lookout Viewpoint (Khao Hin Lek Fai)

Just a ten-minute ride from Bluport, you can drive up to the top of one of the many hills that make Hua Hin so scenic, for free.

There is a map of several walkway options through the woods to lookout points. Up there, you get fantastic views across the whole town and beyond, out to the deep blue sea and up and down the coast.

There are plenty of monkeys here for photo opportunities and a small cafe.

19. Pran Buri Forest Park, Pran Kiri Beach and Eureka Beach Cafe

Pran Buri Forest Park is home to the Mangrove Forest Walkway.

This boardwalk raised above the muddy mangrove bed below is a tranquil walk through the dense mangrove and gives the kids the opportunity to spot colourful crabs as they scurry around the boggy mud. There’s a lookout halfway round for the kids to climb up.

As mentioned in the beaches section, there is also a fantastic, deserted beach nearby too, worth exploring. There are some cafes around too.

20. The Golden Buddha and Walk up Monkey Mountain (Khao Takiab)

There is a large Buddha statue at the northern side of Monkey Mountain. It’s also possible to walk up Monkey Mountain.

Access is best from the northern end of the mountain by the cafes that line the foot of the mountain. There are steep steps leading up to the top of the mountain where you will find incredible views of the coast north and south. You may find some monkeys hanging around as you walk up.

It’s free and well worth the effort.

21. Watch Muay Thai Boxing

This may not be for everyone’s kids, depending on their age or your own beliefs on what appears to be a brutal sport.

There are posters up all over town and vans driving around promoting the next fight night, usually every fortnight.

We got to know an English family whose thirteen-year-old boy was a Muay Thai fighter and went along to one of his fights. A really great experience.

The fighters get 1,500 baht per fight win or lose. This English kid donated his money win or lose to his opponent.

A fight night typically starts around 8pm and contains approx. 12 fights of varying ages, levels and rounds.

22. Rajabhakti Park (The Seven Kings Statue)

These impressive seven bronze statues are fourteen metres tall and represent seven of the most important Kings of Thailand.

The park is about a ten-minute drive from Bluport, heading south. Free parking and free entry and a souvenir shop nearby.

23. Kaeng Krachan National Park

Thailand’s largest National Park located 75km away is a UNESCO Heritage site.

Websites will tell you it’s possible to see leopards, bears, deer, elephants, jackals, mongooses, various monkey types, gaurs, snakes, lizards and various birds. The reality is that with the size of the forest, many of these will be hard to spot unless you have a large amount of time. Something we didn’t have with tired and hungry kids.

We self-drove to the visitor centre in the heart of the park, which costs 300 baht for adults and 150 baht for kids plus a small 30 baht for the car.

From there we had the option to pay 1,800 baht for a 4×4 further into the park to potentially see more but by this stage our kids were cranky, so we declined. This may have been the opportunity to see more.

But we did have the incredible memorable experience of seeing a Sun Bear, just hanging out, looking for food right next to the cafe at the visitor centre. We also saw some Dusky Langur in the nearby trees.

24. Kui Buri National Park

Famous for its 95% success rate of seeing elephants, this is a popular day trip from Hua Hin, approximately one hour away.

There are other animals in the park such as deer, gibbons, bears, macaques but sadly we didn’t see anything other than the elephants.

By car, you can only go as far as the visitor centre (600 baht entrance fee for the four of us) and then need to pay 850 baht for the 4×4 safari to go looking for elephants. For us, this was a thirty minute bumpy drive to a plateau that looked out to where the elephants were hanging out far in the distance.

I would recommend hiring binoculars from the visitor centre (100 baht). This made the difference between the kids squinting to see any elephant on the horizon and seeing it up close through the binoculars.

25. Phraya Nakhon Cave and the Royal Pavilion

Arguably one of the best things we did in Thailand, although probably enjoyed more by adults than kids. Famous for the Royal Pavilion, built in 1890, a Royal ceremonial structure built deep in the jungle through a cave network. The pavilion lights up as the sun passes through a hole in the collapsed roof of the cave.

It’s best to arrive by 8.30-9am to allow time to do the walk (approx 45min-1 hour) to arrive at the Royal Pavilion by 10am. The sun only lights up that part of the cave between 10am-11am which is the most spectacular part. Quite possibly one of the most spectacular sights for us in Thailand.

It is however a challenge to get there. It’s an hour’s drive south from Hua Hin. And then there’s two steep climbs to get to the cave.

You can skip the first 500m climb by paying 200 baht for a return boat. But you still need to do the final steep 430 metre climb. You will see monkeys on the way to lighten the pain of the hike.

Is it worth it with kids? We found our nine-year-old appreciated it but our six-year-old was happier getting his shorts dirty by sliding down the loose gravel.

26. Capy Village

20 minutes inland, this place feels like the animals are well looked after, and has capybara that you can feed, along with guinea pigs and meerkats. The kids loved it. 

27. Sky Bar at Holiday Inn

The Holiday Inn dominates the southern skyline of Hua Hin and located on the 37th Floor – the highest in the city, is the Sky Bar. You can just go for a drink or eat at the (pricey but good quality) restaurant / bar menu. Totally worth it for the view. Sunset is a great time. Note, kids have to have left by 8pm. There’s also a glass floor viewing platform.

Note: one place NOT to visit:

Malai Farm

We had heard this farm was a good place for kids – with free entry it sounded good.

But it turned out to be more of a prison than a farm – as the animals were crammed into small spaces. They have lions chained up lying on a hard floored stage waiting for tourists to take photos. The animals didn’t look too well looked after, needless to say, we didn’t stay long.