Cha-Am is very well located for day trips to many excursions, for example: the floating market, River Kwai, Sam Roi Yot National Park, National Rose Garden, Elephant Treks, Palau waterfalls and much more!

The area around Cha-Am has a large number of Thailand’s best golf courses, approximately 12 within a 1 hour drive. You can purchase top quality golfing equipment at very low prices here too.

For those who like underwater adventure, the island of Koh Talu provides some excellent snorkelling just 2.5 hours away by car. You can do this as a day trip or stay over in one of the available beach bungalows.

Anyone who’s been to Thailand before knows what a great place it is for food. Cha-Am has lots of restaurants that cater for many different styles of cuisine & budgets. Max Norwegian Restaurant (entrance to Golden Beach Hotel) has a wide selection of western, international & Thai cuisine. There's always something that children love in their menu too!
Whether you eat out or cook at home, there's so much to choose from. We have a newly built fresh market in Old Cha-Am (near the original settlement), great for buying the wide variety of fruits, vegetables & sea foods native to Thailand; cheaply too!

Cha-Am has a mature fishing village with an abundance of restaurants specialising in sea fare. Two long rock spits project out into the sea, ideal for some casual rod fishing or crabbing.

Phetchaburi province is also home to the majority of golf courses that serve the Cha-Am and Hua-Hin resorts, including: Kaeng Krachan Country Club & Resort, Palm Hills Golf Resort & Country Club, Imperial Lake View Hotel & Golf Club and Springfield Royal Country Club of Cha-Am.

Taking the highway south from the Cha-Am intersection about 10 minutes you will discover a number of international hotel resorts such as the Marriott Courtyard, Regent Holiday Inn, Sheraton and the Springfield at Sea.
Be sure to contact us first for the best price if you want to book into one.

Also, there's a fishing and shooting range not far after the Rama VI army camp.

To the north up the coast road about 20 minutes is a temple called Wat Tanodluang. It might just be Noah’s Ark?
About 5 minutes further on is the classy boutique resort of Casuarina sitting on the sea front.
Onward a few minutes from Casuarina you will find a little gem of a beach called Haad Gel; an ideal place for sitting at the beach day-dreaming with very few people around and with a lovely simple little restaurant nearby.
5 minutes more and you’ll find Phuk Tien. Its a little resort town currently undergoing a reincarnation & notable for its figurines in the sea.
Continuing north another 15 minutes you arrive at Haad Chow Samran. This is a beautiful little beach town with numerous boutique resorts and some wonderful beachfront restaurants set in a bay to the North of the beach road.  This little town has a special atmosphere & is largely undiscovered by foreign tourists.

Other notable places in Phetchaburi province are: Kaeng Krachan National Park and the Wildlife friends of Thailand.

Kaeng Krachan National Park is the largest national park in Thailand occupying 2,915 km2. It includes: a vast lake, waterfalls, deep forests, caves, nature observatories and a 27 hole golf course.

The Wildlife friends of Thailand (www.wfft.org) is an animal sanctuary specialising in the rescue, care and rehabilitation of wildlife in Thailand. It is predominantly run by foreigners, offering heart-warming volunteer holidays and day trips.

This is just a taster about Cha-Am and its surrounding areas. You have to get out and explore this land to fully appreciate the richness and diversity available.

There is a reason why Cha-Am is the favourite holiday destination for Bangkok Thais. Maybe it’s the availability of good quality nicely priced rooms or the abundance of sea food or the 5km open beach? Maybe it’s because Cha-Am is in the centre of everything the region has to offer?

Or is it because Cha-Am has a calm warm serenity that most other resort towns miss……