La Habana Hua Hin

La Habana Hua Hin is a low-rise condominium in the Nong Kae subdistrict, at the southern edge of Hua Hin. Four buildings stand on a 6-rai plot: A, B and C of eight storeys and D of two. Together they hold 652 apartments of four types, from 25.00 to 98.75 sq m. Sansiri built the scheme and completed it in 2020; the company publishes no price.

The smallest apartment, 25.25–26.50 sq m, is a single volume: the bed and the sofa stand with no partition between them. Only a change of flooring and a counter marks off the kitchen. A bedroom behind a wall appears from 32.75 sq m, yet the kitchen stays open there too: none of the four layouts gives it a door. At 60.75 sq m the kitchen has no walls at all — the developer does not even change the floor under it. The washing-machine slot sits on the balcony in the one-bedroom layouts and inside the kitchen in the two-bedroom ones.

The courtyard is taken up by the pool, raised to the second floor; by the developer's account most apartments on the first and second floors open onto the water directly. The gym is not a separate pavilion: it takes the ground floor of the two-storey building D, together with the laundry and the WCs. Above the gym sit three apartments, the largest in the scheme: 96.75, 97.00 and 98.50 sq m. The roof of that same building was given to a garden — lawn and path, hedges, raised beds of greens, benches and wooden trellises. The children's pool lies by the eastern arm of the main pool, and the children's play area is in the green strip between the water and the southern car park.

Nong Kae is the southern end of Hua Hin. The address is a resort one but not a beach one: blocks of hotels, markets and attractions lie between the building and the water. The nearest water is about half a kilometre to the east; Khao Takiab beach starts further south, and the Tamarind market begins right past the eastern car-park fence. The entrance and its drop-off come off the public road along the western boundary, and a second gate opens onto Soi Hua Thanon 23. Buildings A, C and D stand on three sides of the pool courtyard, and the fourth is taken by the lobby and the entrance court. Building B is pushed out beyond the eastern car park.

A unit in a Thai condominium is held freehold, in full ownership. A foreign buyer can take one within the building's quota — no more than 49% of its residential floor area under the condominium law. How much of that quota is free, Sansiri does not publish, nor the amounts of the sinking fund and the common-area charge. One condition is stated: ownership passes within 30 days after the buyer has paid for the unit in full together with those charges, taxes and fees. The condominium is registered as no. 2/2563.

The project belongs to Sansiri PLC itself; the La Habana name has no separate project company behind it. The building takes its name from the capital of Cuba. Sansiri traces its look to the same place: arches, contrasting colours and tiles of differing patterns through the common areas.