Make sure to check with them on the mandatory New Years eve dinner event. When I was there in Dec 2009 (just after opening) they wanted some ridiculuos amount of 8.5K THB per person mandatory no choice if you stayed the night of Dec 31 to Jan 1.

Now for that amount of money I can have some crazy party in Thailand even at a 5* hotel. It was some sit down dinner at larger tables where you sit together with some strangers. Not my cup of tea. So I asked if I could pay the money and use it as F&B credit during my stay instead but no dice.

So when they were uncooperative I just shortened my stay by 2 nights and departed on Dec 31 for BKK wher ewe had a lovely time at the IC with no forced gala dinner. We had a table at the Four Seasons great Italian restaurant that night with a nice menu and wine and prosecco and it cost us 5k THB a person which was still much cheaper then IC Hua Hin.

Don't get me wrong, I like the property very much but that was just stupid.