Welcome to OnlyChaam.com
This website is a personal webpage exclusively dedicated to Cha-Am, in Thailand. Our goal is to provide free and up-to-date information for tourists and expats.
About Cha-Am
Cha-Am (it can also be written Chaam, Cha am, Cha Am or Cha-am, in Thai ชะอำ) is located 170 km south from Bangkok (2 hours by car) and 25 km north from Hua Hin, the famous seaside resort. Whereas Hua Hin has more facilities and a lot to offer for tourists (shopping, restaurants, entertainment...), Cha-Am is appreciated for its quiet and laidback atmosphere, its 5 km long beach, and its wide range of restaurants and accomodations.
Why visit Cha-Am
While Cha-Am successfully caters for foreign tourists, it remains a Thai resort, with a large majority of Thai tourists. So if you are looking for the "real Thailand", for an "authentic experience", well this is it! However, the sea isn't really crystal clear, so if you want to do some diving or snorkelling, you should go further down south, to an island like Ko Tao or Ko Pha Ngan. Please also note that there is hardly any nightlife in Cha-Am. There are much better places elsewhere if you are after partying and nightlife action.
Thai people visiting Cha-Am usually come from Bangkok for the weekend. So the beachfront is very quiet during the week, and gets more animated during the weekends and national holidays. No need to say, Cha-Am is THE place to go if you are travelling with your Thai wife or Thai family. They will love it and they will feel comfortable here, which is not always the case in other popular resorts. Cha-Am is also ideal for western families, as there are a lot of activities for children and no bar scene like in Pattaya or Phuket. Expats and long term tourists in Cha-Am are mostly retirees from Northern Europe (Scandinavia, Netherlands...).
Latest posts from our blog
29/12/08 - Happy New Year!
Onlychaam.com first appeared on the web in February 2008, so it’s still a young website. After one year we are already proud to receive around 2,000 unique visitors per month, and we would like to wish you all a Happy New Year 2009! The forum is still very quiet and there aren’t many comments on this blog, [...]
24/12/08 - Merry Christmas under the sun
Cha-Am is not Bangkok, so here we don’t get to see Christmas trees in shopping centers! Errr… well of course there ain’t many shopping centers around either. But that’s what we all like about Cha-Am, don’t we?
Here are a few pictures of Cha-Am on a Christmas’ eve day. If you don’t know where to go [...]
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Let's share our experience!
If you live in Cha-Am or if you visit frequently, we would like to invite you to join our forum, where you can meet other expatriates living in the area, and share your knowledge to help first-time visitors who have questions about Cha-Am. But not all topics are necessarily about Cha-Am, so everyone is welcome, whether you have a question or any interest about Thailand or about this website.
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Purpose of this website
Onlychaam.com aims at providing free, detailed and up-to-date information about Cha-Am for tourists and expats. It is a non profit website run by an expat living there.
Our projects
We will soon add a detailed city map, more reviews of hotels and restaurants, videos, and interviews of expats living in Cha-Am. We will try our best to provide as much information as possible, and keep it up-to-date.
