We planned our trip to Hua Hin completely oblivious of the fact that the ASEAN summit redux was that same weekend. We probably should have looked into that a bit more (especially when we got such a great room rate), but we heard about it a few days ahead of time and figured it would probably work out ok. It actually didn't matter one bit - the town had a lot less tourists than usual (they were avoiding the event), the beaches had few people while everyone summitted, and the 18,000 extra security personnel (police and military) kept everything very, very safe. As it was, no one protested anyways, so we felt bad for the security folks that had to stand around in the hot sun, looking ready for... more standing around.
They also had one whole lane on each side of the road blocked for ASEAN traffic, which was probably to protect the locals from people with diplomatic immunity driving between parties as the other way around.
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