Hua Hin is Thailand's oldest beach resort, a sophisticated seaside town in Prachuap Khiri Khan province that has been a royal retreat since the 1920s — the current Thai royal family still spends much of the year at the Klai Kangwon Palace here. The town blends a pleasant beach, excellent seafood restaurants, a night market, and polo matches with a genteel, unhurried atmosphere quite different from the wilder resorts of the south.