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ANOTHER NEW PATTAYA - HUA HIN FERRY SERVICE TO START NEW YEAR’S DAY
•The• latest effort to offer a ferry service between the two tourist spots facing each other across the Gulf of HUA HIN
Thailand is set to start on 1st January 2017, with a passenger only catamaran initially. Several previous attempts to offer a ferry service have ended after relatively short periods of time, although it has never been made clear as to the reasons. However, many will question whether there is enough demand to use such a service, and until full information on ticket prices, schedules and the departure and arrival spots is given, a comparison to take in journey time versus cost of alternatives to assess the new service will be impossible. We believe this information will be made available during December. One of the problems that has faced previous ferry operations is that the Gulf of Thailand can have quite difficult sea conditions, which in the past meant that ferries could not run on schedule. These conditions also made embarking and disembarking a problem, but hopefully the new company, who have been named as the privately run Royal Passenger Liner Co, will be able to avoid or deal with these problems. Estimates of the crossing time have been put at around two hours, or possibly slightly less, so depending on where the embarkation points are, this could mean a significantly shorter journey than is currently possible by road or rail. The daily round trip service will begin by carrying up to 150 passengers only, but with a planned service to include a larger ferry carrying up to 260 passengers, as well as one that is able to carry vehicles, although no dates or other details have been made available for these services, which will be subject to a feasability study and an environmental imact assessment.