Tiki in St. Pete, FL - General Tiki

F fatuhiva Member Melbourne Beach, FL Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 638	F fatuhiva Posted posted on Sun, Jan 22, 2006 9:06 PM yup Tiki Gardens has been a boring old parking lot in Indian Rocks Beach for some time now.. not really worth the drive. There are/were some neat tiki-ish googie hotels along the main drag in St. Pete- last time I was there I saw a place called "The Tahitian" or something like that- probably a condo now the way things have been going. There's plenty of hidden tikis around in yards etc, but no "tiki establishments" that I know of- you could make the drive to Disney (about 1.5-2 hrs) and hit the Polynesian Resort for dinner/drinks.. thats way tiki'ed. Sunken Gardens is a cool jungle to check out.. so is Marie Selby Gardens in Sarasota. For fun you could take the Ft. Desoto ferry over to Egmont Key and hang around a deserted island with white-powder beaches. Or you can drive over the skyway bridge to Anna Maria island, then take the scenic drive south along the coastline through Anna Maria to the Mote Aquarium- you can hop a boat with the Sarasota Bay explorers and do a little trip thru the Sarasota Bay- see some dolphins, drag a net behind the boat and see what cool stuff you catch- its good fun. Egmont Key Selby Gardens [ Edited by: fatuhiva 2006-01-22 21:13 ]

yup Tiki Gardens has been a boring old parking lot in Indian Rocks Beach for some time now.. not really worth the drive.

There are/were some neat tiki-ish googie hotels along the main drag in St. Pete- last time I was there I saw a place called "The Tahitian" or something like that- probably a condo now the way things have been going.

There's plenty of hidden tikis around in yards etc, but no "tiki establishments" that I know of- you could make the drive to Disney (about 1.5-2 hrs) and hit the Polynesian Resort for dinner/drinks.. thats way tiki'ed.

Sunken Gardens is a cool jungle to check out.. so is Marie Selby Gardens in Sarasota.

For fun you could take the Ft. Desoto ferry over to Egmont Key and hang around a deserted island with white-powder beaches. Or you can drive over the skyway bridge to Anna Maria island, then take the scenic drive south along the coastline through Anna Maria to the Mote Aquarium- you can hop a boat with the Sarasota Bay explorers and do a little trip thru the Sarasota Bay- see some dolphins, drag a net behind the boat and see what cool stuff you catch- its good fun.

Egmont Key

Selby Gardens

[ Edited by: fatuhiva 2006-01-22 21:13 ]

Post #209579 by fatuhiva on Sun, Jan 22, 2006 9:06 PM