Tikibound · a tiki travel guide
Every event is a pilgrimage.

Chart your next tiki pilgrimage.

An event-first guide to American tiki: the weekenders worth traveling for, the operating bars around them, and the Dead Reckoning layer — the lost Polynesian palaces you can still stand in front of and pour one out. For those who are tikibound.

The Chart

United States · All waters
Layers
United States · Ports of Call
Soundings in rum · Not for navigation

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The Season

Events calendar
PDXotica Portland, Oregon · official site ↗ Jul 17–19, 2026 Tales of the Cocktail New Orleans, Louisiana Jul 19–24, 2026 Tiki Oasis 2026 San Diego, California Aug 5–9, 2026 The Lei Away Kansas City, Missouri Sep 17–19, 2026 Beachcomber Bash Portland, Oregon Sep 18–20, 2026 Monster Moku Orlando, Florida Sep 24–27, 2026 Circa Caliente Palm Springs, California Oct 1–4, 2026 Tiki Fever Sarasota, Florida Nov 5–7, 2026 Breezeway Getaway Palm Springs, California Jan 21–24, 2027 Inuhele: Winter Break Atlanta, Georgia Jan 22–23, 2027 Nor'easter Island Sturbridge, Massachusetts February 2027 — dates TBA Mai Tai Mayhem Richfield, Ohio Mar 5–7, 2027 Tiki a Go-Go Orlando, Florida Apr 2–4, 2027 Arizona Tiki Oasis Scottsdale, Arizona Apr 15–18, 2027 Tiki Caliente Palm Springs, California Spring 2027 — dates TBA Dallas Tiki Week Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas May 2027 — dates TBA The Hukilau Fort Lauderdale, Florida Jun 10–13, 2027 Ohana: Luau at the Lake Lake George, New York Jun 24–27, 2027 Inuhele Atlanta, Georgia 2027 — dates TBA Chicago Area Tiki Tour Chicago, Illinois Dormant — next edition TBA

Ports of Call

City charts · The deepest waters
Atlanta Georgia 4 operating · 4 lost Greater Boston Massachusetts 4 operating · 3 lost Chicago Illinois 6 operating · 5 lost Dallas–Fort Worth Texas 5 operating · 5 lost Fort Lauderdale Florida 5 operating · 4 lost Honolulu Hawaii 1 operating · 13 lost Kansas City Missouri 2 operating · 4 lost Lake George New York 2 operating · 3 lost Las Vegas Nevada 2 operating · 9 lost Los Angeles California 4 operating · 38 lost New Orleans Louisiana 6 operating · 3 lost New York New York 2 operating · 8 lost Northeast Ohio Ohio 2 operating · 3 lost Orlando Florida 5 operating · 4 lost Palm Springs California 4 operating · 4 lost Phoenix–Scottsdale Arizona 7 operating · 3 lost Portland Oregon 5 operating · 5 lost Puget Sound Washington 2 operating · 12 lost San Diego California 6 operating · 3 lost San Francisco Bay California 8 operating · 21 lost

The Chart Table

Below decks
The ProprietorsBars are the vessels; people were the wind — the founders, bartenders, carvers, and designers who built the ports. Taste of HistoryYou can't visit a bar that closed in 1967, but you can pour what it poured. The HistorianAsk anything about tiki history — the whole record compiled, every line cited, nothing invented. The Reading RoomThe books, chronicles, and archives this chart stands on — plain, no-affiliate links.