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A Local Friend sharing a rooftop evening with travelers, city lights behind them

Roavi · Hua Hin

Become a Local Friend in Hua Hin

Create your Local Friend profile, share the places and experiences you enjoy, and connect with travelers visiting your city.

Free to create. You choose when and who you meet.

No commission · keep 100%

You set your rate

Free to publish

Locals are already sharing these cities with travelers. Yours can be next.

Bangkok, Medellín, Mexico City, São Paulo, Bali, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Santo Domingo, Tokyo, Lisbon, Ho Chi Minh City

Not a tour

This is not about memorizing a tour.

It is about sharing the version of your city that only you know.

Morning

Coffee, markets, your neighborhood.

The stop you make without thinking, the market that isn’t in any guide.

Afternoon

Food, culture, the hidden places.

The alley with no sign. The place you’d only find if someone showed you.

Evening

Music, nightlife, conversation.

By night, you’re not a guide — you’re just a friend showing someone around.

Your rate × your schedule

What locals actually charge.

You set your own rate. Payment happens directly between you and the traveler — Roavi never touches it. Here's what real Local Friends are asking on the platform today.

Your hourly rate

Hours a week

A month, roughly

$1,386

yours to keep · 0% commission

An example, not a promise. You're paid directly by the traveller; Roavi never touches the money.

You already know more than you think.

You know where to eat, where to walk, what to avoid, when to arrive, and where the city feels most alive. That local knowledge is what travelers are looking for.

Walk your neighborhood
Share local food spots
Recommend music and nightlife
Show hidden places
Have a real conversation
Help someone feel less like a tourist

Share what you love, on your own terms.

Roavi helps people discover and message one another. It does not create a booking or force either person to meet.

  • Choose your availability
  • Set your own rate
  • Decide who you respond to
  • Choose where to meet
  • Say no to anyone, anytime
  • Pause or edit your profile anytime

A few minutes

Four steps. A few minutes.

Set up your profile today. Start hearing from travelers.

  1. 1

    Create your profile

    Add your name, photo, city, and a short introduction.

  2. 2

    Add your local interests and availability

    Choose the food, culture, nightlife, or experiences you enjoy — and when you’re free.

  3. 3

    Publish your profile in the Roavi directory

    Your profile becomes visible to travelers — free, right away.

  4. 4

    Receive and respond to traveler messages

    Interested travelers message you directly. You decide who to respond to.

Build more trust with optional identity verification

Verification is completed through Stripe Identity. Once approved, a verified status appears on your profile — addable anytime from your dashboard.

Your profile, directory visibility, and messaging remain free without verification.

Verified identity status

A trust signal on your profile that helps travelers feel confident reaching out.

Profile performance insights

See how your profile views trend over time from your dashboard.

Hua Hin the way people who live there know it

Hua Hin is close enough to Bangkok that it gets city people for the weekend and foreigners who stay for months. Many only know the beach in front of the hotel and the night market, while there are plenty of places Hua Hin people like to go, and plenty of questions long-stayers want to ask someone.

What you can show

  • 1

    Hua Hin's old wooden railway station and the old streets around it, in the morning.

  • 2

    Chatchai market, the night market and the weekend Cicada Market, the way locals walk them.

  • 3

    Khao Takiab, the quieter beaches, and Pranburi for a day out of town.

  • 4

    Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park and Phraya Nakhon cave, with the time the light comes in.

This page is written for Thai nationals who live in Hua Hin. Tour guiding in Thailand is a licensed profession under the Tourism Business and Guide Act and is reserved for Thai nationals, and any foreigner earning income in Thailand needs a work permit. Local Friends sell no tours, drive no one by car or boat, and lead no groups.

Travelers are looking for locals in Hua Hin

Be one of the first Local Friends they meet. Build your profile today and get discovered by travelers heading to Hua Hin.

All of Thailand

Good to know before you begin

A few honest answers, so there are no surprises.

Mostly everyday life: which market is good, which place is tasty, how to get to Pranburi or Sam Roi Yot. Someone who lives in Hua Hin helps with that better than a tour.

Selling tour packages or guiding as a profession needs a licence. Local Friends don't do that: you're paid for your time with a visitor as someone who lives here.

Yes. Creating and publishing your Local Friend profile is completely free — there’s no cost to appear in the directory or receive messages.

No — and that is the point. A Local Friend is not a tour guide: you spend time with someone as yourself, you do not run a tour. Professional guiding is a licensed profession in a number of countries; spending an afternoon with someone is not. And if you do hold a guiding licence, put it on your profile — travellers look for it.

Yes. You set your own hourly rate, and you can change it anytime from your profile.

No. Roavi doesn’t process payments or take a commission on what you arrange with a traveler.

No. You decide who you respond to, and you can say no to anyone, for any reason.

No. Verification is optional. It’s completed through Stripe Identity and adds a verified status to your profile, but your profile, visibility, and messaging stay free either way.

Travelers message you directly through Roavi once they find your profile in the directory. You choose whether and how to reply.

Yes. You can pause your visibility or delete your profile at any time from your account settings.

A coastal city at golden hour

Your city is already part of your story. Share it.

Travelers are already looking for someone like you.

No commission. No required schedule. You stay in control.