A season in Hua Hin, with a ready-made group of Australian friends.
SawasdeeLife brings together a small group of 6–10 Australians to share a season in Hua Hin — your own place, a friendly community close by, and people to enjoy it all with. You get the sun, the savings, and the lifestyle upgrade, and we make sure you're never doing it alone.
Only 10 founding places.
The cohort model: you never arrive alone
Most Australians who'd love to spend a season overseas never do it — because going alone feels daunting, and going with one other person doesn't fix the loneliness either. SawasdeeLife solves this by moving you with a small group, on the same dates, into the same area.
Join a cohort
You're matched into a group of 6–10 Australians travelling on the same program and departure date.
Bangkok Welcome Tour
Four fun, fully-included days in Bangkok turn strangers into friends before Hua Hin life even begins.
Settle in together
Your whole cohort moves into the same neighbourhood in Hua Hin, with our local team alongside you.
Live your season
Enjoy Hua Hin with your new community — coffee mornings, beach walks, markets, golf — and real local support whenever you need it.
Three ways to spend a season in Hua Hin
All prices are AUD, per person, single occupancy — your own room, no single supplement.
Try Hua Hin
AUD $3,500
Our first-ever cohort. Three months in Hua Hin's best season — with the people who'll define what SawasdeeLife becomes.
Reserve with an AUD $500 deposit — fully transferable if plans change.
Join the Founding Cohort →Escape Australian Winter
AUD $3,500
Three months of Hua Hin sunshine while Australia is in the grip of winter. Pack a suitcase, join your cohort, come home with a tan and a new set of friends.
Reserve with an AUD $500 deposit — fully transferable if plans change.
Learn more →Seasonal
AUD $5,800
Six months in Hua Hin from November to April — settling into a furnished condo with your cohort and making it genuinely your home away from home.
Reserve with an AUD $500 deposit — fully transferable if plans change.
Learn more →Reserve with a fully transferable deposit
Joining the waitlist costs nothing. Here's what happens once you're ready to reserve your place.
Apply
Tell us which cohort you want to join — no payment yet, we'll have a chat first.
Transferable deposit
Secure your place with an AUD $500 deposit. Fully transferable — if plans change before the cohort is confirmed, it moves to the next available cohort.
Cohort confirmed
If the cohort reaches 6 or more people 42 days before departure, it's confirmed and preparations begin — visas, flights, and your Bangkok Welcome Tour. If not, your deposit transfers or is refunded in full.
Staged balance
50% of the balance is due 60 days before departure; the remaining 50% is due at confirmation (42 days). Then all that's left is to pack.
The Bangkok Welcome Tour
Four days, all meals included, your own hotel room. The Grand Palace, a relaxed day trip to Ayutthaya, ICONSIAM, and a dinner cruise down the Chao Phraya River on your final night in Bangkok.
It's a genuine holiday — and by the time your group boards the private minivan to Hua Hin, you won't be travelling with strangers. You'll be travelling with friends.
Explore the Welcome TourA relaxed beach town, three hours from Bangkok
Hua Hin has been a favourite escape for generations — once the royal family's own seaside retreat, now home to a large, welcoming community of Australian, British, and European expats.
Affordable, comfortable living
With the Australian dollar going further in Thailand, your everyday costs — dining out, groceries, transport, healthcare — stretch much further than at home.
An established expat community
Beach clubs, golf courses, markets, cafés and a long-standing community of English-speaking residents make it easy to feel at home from day one.
Healthcare you can rely on
Bangkok Hospital Hua Hin provides excellent first-line care, with transfer to Bangkok available for complex cases. Medical evacuation cover is included in the required travel insurance.
Built by someone who knows both worlds
SawasdeeLife was founded by Vanisa Bulpakdi, a Thai-Australian dual citizen and native Thai speaker who has spent years managing groups of foreigners living and travelling in Thailand.
Vanisa created SawasdeeLife because she kept meeting Australians who loved the idea of spending part of the year in Thailand — but who never went, because they didn't want to do it alone, and didn't know who to trust to help them get there.
Read Vanisa's story
Be among the first — January to March 2027
SawasdeeLife's founding cohort runs 3 months in Hua Hin during January to March — one of Hua Hin's best stretches of weather — for AUD $3,500 per person, single occupancy. It opens with the 4-day Bangkok Welcome Tour, just like every SawasdeeLife program. Founding members get priority access, first pick of dates, and a direct line to Vanisa and the local team while we get the community started.
Join the Founding CohortOnly 10 founding places.