What is on your Tiki Bucket List? Here is mine

First, I’ll start off with the Places I’ve already visited.

The Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland and Disneyworld

Trader Sam’s at the Disneyland Hotel

Tangaroa Terrace Bar Disneyland Hotel

The Polynesian Hotel Disneyworld

Th Hatch in Tustin

The Golden Tiki

Frankie’s Tiki Room Las Vegas

Tahiti Village Las Vegas

Tiki Grill and Bar Oahu

Cuckoo Coconuts  Oahu

Disney’s Aulani Oahu

Ka’anpali Beach Hotel in Maui

Bali Hai San Diego

The Catamaran Hotel San Diego

Tiki Oasis 10 Years at the Crowne Plaza

The Shag Store Palm Springs

The Tonga Hut Palm Springs

The Reef Palm Springs

Tiki Caliente At the Caliente Tropics Palm Springs

Jan and Dean’s Tiki Lounge Huntington Beach
Billy's at the Beach Newport Beach

Roxanne’s Rum and Tiki Social Long Beach

The Bamboo Club Long Beach

The Ocean Palms Resort in Carlsbad

Lakanuki Mammoth Lake at the Village 

Places that  no longer exist

The Puka Bar Long Beach

Cat’s Eye Club San Diego

Don the Beachcomber’s in Sunset Beach (This was our Main Tiki hangout.... Still miss it)

The Royal Hawaiian Laguna (Before the new management)

Tahiti Joe’s at Tahiti Village Las Vegas (terrible service so I’m not surprised)

Here are the top places I want to visit that are the most likely and one on my dream list for some day.

Trader Sam’s Grog Grotto at the Polynesian at Walt Disney World.

We were in Walt Disney world several years ago –just weeks before it opened.  We were there for a cheer competition, so we didn’t have a choice of when the trip was.   It kills me knowing that we missed getting to go there by about two weeks.  I love Trader Sam’s at Disneyland and I can’t wait to someday visit the cool East Coast version.

The False Tiki in San Diego

This is another case of we just missed it.  A couple of years ago at Tiki Oasis this Tiki Bar was scheduled to be open in time for Oasis and didn’t.  The last two years at Tiki Oasis we have had the baby with us so a trip to Downtown San Diego to check it out wasn’t in the cards for us.   Our son is old enough to stay overnight with Grandma now –so hopefully we can actually get down to see it finally.

Smuggler’s Cove in San Francisco

We just need to make a Tiki trip to San Francisco to check out this iconic Tiki bar as well as the Tonga Room and now Zombie Village.   

We went through San Francisco last summer on the way to Oregon –but it was a family trip with 3 kids in the car, so Tiki wasn’t on the agenda. 

Disney’s Aulani:

We did visit it for the day on our trip to Oahu a couple years ago and loved it.  I really want to actually stay there.  Hopefully in a couple years when our littlest is old enough to really enjoy it we can stay there.  I’d like to stay there for about 4 nights and maybe stay at Turtle Bay on the North Shore for a couple of days as well.  I really think they should add a 3^rd Trader Sam’s to Aulani.  I don’t understand how that hasn’t already happened.

The Pacific Seas in Los Angeles

This place has been on my radar since it was first announced.   The timing just hasn’t worked out for us.  We had our baby right about the time that this opened.  One of our favorite bands The Hula Girls plays there and that would be the perfect time to go –but they usually play on Thursday nights.  With kids in school and a little one—it is hard to get up to LA on a Thursday night—so it hasn’t happened yet.

The Mai Kai

This is on my dream list -but it is the least likely to happen.  It is on the other side of the country and a trip there would most likely have to be a trip specifically to go there.   Maybe some year we can actually make it out there for the Hukilau.  One can always dream.