Century Club - Visited 100 or more tiki bars - Check in!

I'm at 104. Anyone else 100+?

I stopped counting at 100, but I'm guessing close to 115 now.

I have about 100 in the old repertoire. So many of them are long gone or many of them changed names over the decades.

It's interesting. Once you get to a certain number, you realize that no one cares how many tiki bars you visited.

Except perhaps, those who have visited just as many.

Far and few between.

Almost there, I think I'm up to 8! LOL

Does the count include home tiki bars as well?

I think that would get me to 11 if I count my own :D

Damn wow! 100 not even close.

BUT we have been to many of the best tiki bars still here and some dead ones.

Mai Kai, Kahiki, Tiki Ti, Chicago Trader vic's, Swanky's, Kirby's, Amys tree house,Three Dots,Frankies.

I know I missed a few, been to more but that's the top ones.

I've been to 53 locations listed on Critiki (not all of them are bars) but i think that's pretty good considering that i live in Australia.

https://www.critiki.com/profile/?user_id=6954

Tiki Bars Visited
Aku Aku, Orlando, FL (2017)
Aku-Aku, Cambridge, MA (1999)
The Alibi, Portland, OR (2017)
Arnold’s Beach Bar, Honolulu, HI (2019)
Bali Hai Restaurant, San Diego, CA (2017)
Bamboo Club, Long Beach, CA (2021)
Bamboo Hut, San Francisco, CA (1999)
Bamboo Island, Pleasanton, CA (2002)
Banana Hut, Eureka, CA (2020)
Beachbum Berry's Latitude 29, New Orleans, LA (2018)
Billy's at the Beach, Newport Beach, CA (2018)
Bootlegger Tiki, Palm Springs, CA (2020)
Cane Tiki Room, Paso Robles, CA (2022)
Cat Eye Club, San Diego, CA (2016)
Creeki Tiki, San Luis Obisbo, CA (2021)
Clifton’s Pacific Seas, Los Angeles, CA (2019)
Conga Lounge, Oakland, CA (2013)
Cuckoo Coconuts, Honolulu, HI (2019)
Damon's, Glendale, CA (1999)
Devil's Reef, Tacoma, WA (2018)
Don Ho’s Island Grill, Honolulu HI (2000)
Don the Beachcomber, Huntington Beach, CA (2016)
Don the Beachcomber, Kona, HI (2019)
Downtown Tiki Lounge, San Mateo, CA (2019)
Dr. Funk, San Jose, CA (2021)
Drunk Munk, Scottsdale AZ (2022)
False Idol, San Diego, CA (2017)
Forbidden Island, Alameda, CA (2010)
Foundation, Milwaukee, WI (2021)
Frankie's Tiki Room, Las Vegas, NV (2015)
Golden Tiki, Las Vegas, NV (2021)
Harbor House, Morro Bay, CA (2021)
Hawaii West, San Francisco, CA (2019)
Hale Pele, Portland, OR (2017)
High Roller Tiki Lounge, Solvang, CA (2018)
Hukilau, San Jose, CA (2017)
Hula Hoops, South San Francisco, CA (2018)
Hula's Island Grill & Tiki Room, Monterey, CA (2018)
Hula's Island Grill & Tiki Room, Santa Cruz, CA (2016)
Hula's Modern Tiki, Phoenix, AZ (location #1) (2016)
Hula's Modern Tiki, Scottsdale, AZ (2015)
Jan & Dean’s Tiki Lounge (2018)
The Jungle Bird, Sacramento, CA (2017)
The Kon-Tiki, Oakland, CA (2017)
The Kon-Tiki Room, Oakland, CA (2021)
Kona Club, Oakland, CA (2017)
La Mariana Sailing Club, Honolulu, HI (2005)
Last Rites, San Francisco, CA (2018)
Lava Lounge, Seattle, WA (2019)
Lava Tube Waikiki, Honolulu, HI (2019)
Lilo Lounge, San Francisco, CA (1999)
Longitude, Oakland, CA (2017)
LONO Hollywood (2018)
Luau Lounge, San Francisco, CA (2017)
Lucky Cricket, Minneapolis, MN (2019)
Makai Island Kitchen & Groggery, Santa Cruz, CA (2021)
Max’s South Seas Hideaway, Grand Rapids, MI (2021)
Myna Bird Tiki Bar, Honolulu, HI (2019)
Navy Strength, Seattle, WA (2018)
No Bones Beach Beach Club, Seattle, WA (2019)
North Shore Lagoon, Bothell, WA (2019)
Ohana Belltown, Seattle, WA (2019)
The Old Hangout, Tacoma, WA (2019)
Pagan Idol, San Francisco, CA (2016)
Paradise Tiki Bar and Grill, Dania, FL (2019)
Psycho Suzi’s Motor Lounge, Minneapolis, MN (2019)
Purple Orchid Exotic Tiki Lounge, El Segundo, CA (2018)
The Reef, Palm Springs (2019)
Royal Hawaiian, Laguna Beach, CA (2018)
The Shameful Tiki Room, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (2017)
The Sinking Ship at Tiki-Ko (2022)
Skull & Crown Trading Company, Honolulu, HI (2019)
Smuggler’s Cove, San Francisco, CA (2011)
Stinger Ray’s Tiki Bar & Lounge, Lihue, HI (2022)
Strong Water Anaheim, Anaheim, CA (2022)
Tacoma Cabana, Tacoma, WA (2018)
Tahiti Nui, Hanalei, HI (2016)
Tambu Lounge, Disney's Polynesian Village Resort, Orlando, FL (1995)
Tangaroa Terrace Bar and Grill, Anaheim, CA (2019)
Three Dots and a Dash, Chicago, IL (2015)
Tiki Haven, San Francisco, CA (2019)
Tiki Hut, Elko, NV (2001)
Tiki Iniki, Princeville, HI (2022)
Tiki-Ko, Bakersfield, CA (2018)
Tiki Palace, Braintree, MA (1998)
Tiki Restaurant Lounge, Gautier, MS (2018)
Tiki-Ti, Los Angeles, CA (2016)
Tiki Tolteca, New Orleans, LA (2018)
Tiki Tom's, Walnut Creek, CA (2001)
Tiki's Grill & Bar, Honolulu, HI (2005)
Tilted Tiki, Stillwater, MN (2019)
Tipsy Tiki, Honolulu, HI (2022)
Tonga Hut, Los Angeles (2022)
Tonga Hut, Palm Springs (2020)
Tonga Room, San Francisco, CA (2000)
Toucan’s Tiki Lounge, Palm Springs, CA (2020)
Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar, Anaheim, CA (2011)
Trader Sam's Grog Grotto, Orlando, FL (2016)
Trader Vic's, Atlanta, GA (2016)
Trader Vic's, Emeryville, CA (1998)
Trader Vic's, Las Vegas, NV (2008)
Trader Vic's, Palo Alto, CA (2001)
Trader Vic’s SJC, San Jose, CA (2021)
Trader Vic's Final Resting Place, Oakland, CA (2018)
Trad'r Sam, San Francisco, CA (2017)
Undertow (location #2), Phoenix, AZ (2021)
VenTiki Lounge and Lanai, Ventura, CA (2020)
Waitiki, Orlando, FL (2019)
Wiki Waki Woo Tropical Bar, Honolulu, HI (2019)
Wilfred’s Lounge, Napa, Ca (2021)
World Famous Turf Club, Hayward CA (2019)
Wreck Bar, Fort Lauderdale, FL (2019)
Zombie Village, San Francisco, CA (2018)

[ Edited by kevincrossman on 2022-08-31 11:20:32 ]

An excellent list! Congrats

Unlucky timing to post a link to Critiki

It wasn't five days ago when i made that post. If i knew what was coming i would have taken some screen shots of the link so i had the information for my own personal records.

Using the Wayback Machine I was able to collect my total off Critiki (well, where my total sat for quite a while until last May): 50 + 5

I'm just over halfway to 100 (although not all of these can be called tiki bars)

Slacks Ferret has visited: Adrift, Denver, CO American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY Bahooka Ribs & Grog, Rosemead, CA Bali Hai Restaurant, San Diego, CA Caliente Tropics Resort, Palm Springs, CA Crowne Plaza Hanalei Hotel, San Diego, CA Damon's, Glendale, CA Disney's Polynesian Village Resort, Orlando, FL Don the Beachcomber, Huntington Beach, CA Drift Lounge, Scottsdale, AZ The Enchanted Tiki Room, Orlando, FL The Enchanted Tiki Room, Anaheim, CA False Idol, San Diego, CA Frankie's Tiki Room, Las Vegas, NV Funhauser Decor, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada The Galley, Santa Monica, CA Humphrey's Half Moon Inn, San Diego, CA The Islands Restaurant, San Diego, CA Jack's Sugar Shack, Hollywood, CA Kon Tiki Lounge, Tucson, AZ Kona, Huntington Beach, CA The Lucky Tiki, Mission Hills, CA Mai-Kai, Fort Lauderdale, FL Oceanic Arts, Whittier, CA Otto's Shrunken Head, New York, NY Pagan Idol, San Francisco, CA Painkiller, New York, NY The Polynesian Room, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Purple Orchid Exotic Tiki Lounge, El Segundo, CA Raglan's Bistro, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Royal Hawaiian, Laguna Beach, CA Sam's Seafood, Huntington Beach, CA Sip-N-Dip Tiki Lounge, Great Falls, MT Smuggler's Cove, San Francisco, CA Tangaroa Terrace, Anaheim, CA Tiki Lodge, Spokane, WA Tiki-Ti, Los Angeles, CA Tiki Village Motel, Vernon, British Columbia, Canada Tonga Hut, North Hollywood, CA Tonga Room, San Francisco, CA Trader Mort's Liquor & Deli, San Diego, CA Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar, Anaheim, CA Trader Sam's Grog Grotto, Orlando, FL Trader Vic's, Atlanta, GA Trader Vic's, Emeryville, CA Trader Vic's, Beverly Hills, CA Trader Vic's, Scottsdale, AZ Trader Vic's Lounge, Beverly Hills, CA Trad'r Sam, San Francisco, CA

New (all in Palm Springs): The Shag Store Bootlegger Tiki Royal Hawaiian Estates Tonga Hut Palm Springs The Reef Bar

I think I've done ok for a Canadian!

[ Edited by Slacks Ferret on 2022-09-23 14:02:17 ]

My count is now 109. Here is the list:

1. Trader Vic’s, Beverly Hills - 1976
2. Boom Boom Room, East Lansing - 1981
3. Trader Vic’s Washington, DC – 1981
4. Polynesian Show – The Polynesian, Disneyworld - 1999
5. Mai Kai, Ft. Lauderdale – 2007
6. Trader Vic’s, London
7. Trader Vic’s Los Angeles
8. Trader Vic’s, Emeryville, CA
9. Trader Vic’s, Atlanta
10. Trader Vic’s Island Bar and Grill, Sarasota
11. Trader Vic’s, Chicago (the second one)
12. Three Dots and a Dash, Chicago
13. Bamboo Room speakeasy within Three Dots and a Dash, Chicago
14. Lost Lake, Chicago
15. Kahala Koa, Arlington Heights, IL
16. Hala Kahiki, River Grove, IL
17. Tiki Terrace, Des Plaines, IL
18. Tong’s Tiki Hit, Villa Park, IL
19. The Breakers, Crystal Lake, IL
20. Foundation, Milwaukee
21. Paradise Lounge, Tiki Resort, Lake George
22. Waikiki Supper Club, Tiki Resort, Lake George
23. Tiki Tours floating tiki bar, Lake George
24. House of Foong Lin, Bethesda
25. Tiki TNT, Washington, DC
26. Archipelago, Washington, DC
27. Tiki Thai, Reston, VA
28. Adrift, Denver
29. Shameful Tiki, Toronto
30. Shore Leave, Toronto
31. Yachtsman, Philadelphia
32. The Upstairs Bar, Philadelphia
33. PKNY, New York
34. Polynesian Room, New York
35. Jade Island, Staten Island
36. Lun Wah, Roselle, NJ
37. Lee’s Hawaiian. Lyndhurst, NJ
38. Chan’s Dragon Inn, Ridgefield, NJ
39. UnderTow, Phoenix
40. The Alibi, Portland
41. Hale Pele, Portland
42. Sip n’ Dip Lounge, Great Falls, MT
43. Bootlegger Tiki, Palm Springs
44. The Reef, Palm Springs
45. Tonga Hut, Palm Springs
46. Tonga Hut, LA
47. Don the Beachcomber’s, Huntington Beach
48. Tiki Ti, LA
49. Purple Orchid Exotic Tiki, El Segundo, CA
50. The Warehouse, Marina Del Ray
51. Tiki No, North Hollywood
52. Damon’s, Glendale
53. Lono, LA
54. Lava Lounge, Hollywood
55. Trader Sam’s Disneyland
56. Trader Sam’s Disneyworld
57. Tambu Lounge, Disneyworld
58. Trad’r Sam’s, San Francisco
59. Last Rites, San Francisco
60. Smuggler’s Cove, San Francisco
61. Pagan Idol, San Francisco
62. Tonga Room, San Francisco
63. Bamboo Hut, San Francisco
64. Lua Lounge, San Francisco
65. Forbidden Island, Alameda
66. Kon-Tiki, Oakland
67. Kona Club, Oakland
68. Jungle Bird, Sacramento
69. Bahi Hut, Sarasota
70. Aku Aku, Orlando
71. Suffering Bastard, Sanford, FL
72. Secret Tiki Temple, Jacksonville
73. Waterworks, Tallahassee
74. Hawaiian Inn, Daytona Beach
75. Kona Tiki Bar, Ormand Beach, FL
76. Wreck Bar, Fort Lauderdale
77. Jerry’s Ponce Inlet, FL
78. Bali Hai, Lynnefield, MA
79. Kowloon, Saugus, MA
80. Tiki Island, Medford, MA
81. Frankie’s, Las Vegas
82. Fiji Island, Roanoke
83. Voodoo Tiki, Charleston
84. Caroline’s Aloha, Charleston
85. South Seas, Charleston
86. Water Witch, Savannah
87. Bamboo Room, Savannah
88. Tiki Tango Hideaway Oasis, Atlanta
89. S.O.S., Decatur, GA
90. Little Hawaiian, Carrollton, GA
91. Inferno, Indianapolis
92. Max’s Hideaway, Grand Rapids
93. Mutiny, Detroit
94. Lost River, Detroit
95. Chin’s, Livonia, MI
96. Porco Lounge, Cleveland
97. Tiki Underground, Hudson, OH
98. Hidden Harbor, Pittsburgh
99. Tiki Lounge, Pittsburgh
100. Jack Rose’s Tiki Room, Washington, DC
101. Politiki (pop up), Washington, DC
102. Tiki on 18th, Washington, DC 11/2/21
103. Trader Vic’s pop up Capital Hilton, Washington, DC 5/26/22
104. Fuchsia Tiki Bar, New Paltz, NY 6/27/22
105. Tiny Tiki, Washington, DC 7/8/22
106. Tiki Bar Del Ray, Alexandria, VA 7/8/22
107. Tiki Tiki Bang Bang, Cincinnati 10/27/22
108. Huli Huli Tiiki Lounge, Powell, OH (near Columbus) 7/27/22
109. Tiki Underground (the new one), Cuyahoga Falls, OH (near Akron) 7/28/22

[ Edited by leevigraham on 2023-01-08 01:14:08 ]

I obviously need to up my game. I feel like I've been to a whole lot of tiki bars, but when I add them up I can only come up with 36.

I've just added "Tiki Bar Visits" to https://mytiki.life which replicates some of the lost Critiki functionality.

If anyone needs help finding their critiki list shoot me a message.

Fabulous! Could you add a pin map to this? That's what I used to love about Critiki. I'd just look up where I was going and see if there were any tiki bars nearby.

There's a map here: https://mytiki.life/tiki-bars/map

Thanks for this! There were a number of places I'd forgotten about.

Where you on Critiki? I can help get a list of your previous check-ins.

Yeah, I was. I went through My Tiki Life and added all the places I've been to. I also added a few old local places now gone.

Unfortunately we didn't record all the user checkins, only the location information.

However I have been able to help people find a cached version online. Message me your critiki username and I'll see what I can find.

Damn the important question is what do you do to rack up the kind of cash it would take to go to over 100 tiki bars! Let alone the time needed to take off for all these trips.

I can tell ya not one who did this owned a restaurant, we were lucky to get one week off a year it would take 100 years for us to do this. And many times I would spend that week cleaning / fixing / waxing floors of that damn restaurant.

Wait don't tell me you are in health care, ever notice that the BIG eBayers are in health care.

Now you know why heath care is so costly.

If you are on this list, you are very fortunate people.

Good work! You should try to visit the Foundation Bar in Milwaukee, WI. You won't be disappointed. Strange name for an authentic tiki bar.

Recent trip to the Bay Area put us over the mark. It does include a few of the non-bars that were on the Critiki list...

Well, I've been busy. I'm now at 130. Updates from my list above: 110. Jet Set Tiki, Newburgh, NY 6/21/23 111. Taha’s Twisted Tiki, St. Louis 7/26/23 112. AO Hawaiian Hideout, Chicago 7/31/23 113. Tiki Tiki, Rosemont, IL (near Chicago 7/31/23 114. Tiki Shack, Put In Bay, OH 8/1/23 115. Rum Bar, Put In Bay, OH 8/1/23 116. Electric Cure, Denver 9/2/23 117. Ponche, Annapolis 3/15/24 118. The Arc Royal, Raleigh 3/27/24 119. Tiki Easy, Asheville 3/27/24 120. Phat Sammy’s, Huntsville 3/28/24 121. Latitude 29, New Orleans 3/28/24 122. Toasted Coconut, Houston 3/30/24 123. Lei Low, Houston 3/30/24 124. Swizzle, Dallas 3/30/24 125. 4 Kahunas Arlington, TX 3/30/24 126. Tarantula, Fort Worth 3/30/24 127. Shipwreck, Fort Worth 3/30/24 128. Saturn Room, Tulsa, 3/31/24 129. Flamingo, Oklahoma City 3/31/24 130. Lava and Tonic, Wichita 3/31/24

The last 11 were from my epic cross country tiki trek - 11 tiki bars in 4 days. I drove a heck of a lot of miles all by myself. My big day, 6 in Texas in one day, was accomplished using this strategy: Hit two bars in Houston, ordering the lowest alcohol content on the menus. I was under the legal limit to drive. Then sober up after a 3.5 hour drive to the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Then hit two more. Check into my hotel, and then hit the last two.

The most memorable non-tiki bar I went to was undoubtedly the Piano Bar at the Kelsto Club in New Orleans. The piano player and singer was none other than Bill Clinton's former mistress, Gennifer Flowers. She does not shy away from her sexual past. Her four specialty cocktails were: Lucious Lips, Blow Job on the Beach, Slow Screw, and 3 in the Bush. You … Can’t … Make … This … Stuff … Up! Pretty goog singer and pianist by the way. Very engaging with the clientele.

Create an account on https://mytiki.life/ and check them all in :)

Just created an account on your site! Pretty cool! Do you guys have a mobile app?

No app but the site is mobile responsive. You can easily create entries on your phone.

Now up to 145. Thanks to a move to Denver and a road trip to Chicago, here are the new ones: 131. Bernard's Tiki Room at the Arvada Tavern, Arvada, CO 4/13/24 132. Ohana Room, Millers and Rossi, Denver 5/24/24 133. Swaylo’s, Longmont, CO 5/28/24 134. Hell or High Water, Denver 6/9/24 135. Shrunken Head, Colorado Springs 8/1/24 136. Hello Hi, Sioux Falls, SD 9/24/24 137. Rum Row, Chanhassen MN 9/25/24 138. Wauwau Tiki, Wauwatosa, WI 9/27/24 139. Ula Ula Tiki Room, Saint Francis, WI 9/27/24 140. Bamboo Club Tiki Bar, Chicago 9/29/24 141. Pua Hana Tiki Lounge, Wood Dale, IL 10/2/24 142. Tiki Tiki, Chicago, 10/3/24 143. Bellhop, Des Moines, 10/6/24 144. Revival House, Des Moines, 10/6/24 145. Laka Lono Rum Club, 10/6/24

Can't rave enough about Laka Lono. Great decor, and ohhh the drinks! I threw the bartender my favorite curveball when I find a really good one and the place is not crowded: "I'm going to give you the name of a cocktail that does not exist and I'd like you to make a cocktail that should be called Greater Than the Sum of It's Parts, meaning that if you looked at the ist of ingredients you'd say that would never work, but because you are so good at what you do, it will work." He made me a killer cocktail that featured rum, passionfruit, banana liquor, and Malort. Impossible, inconceivable, but great!