Operating · arrival evening~4 hrs
First Night Soundings
Ease in before the weekender proper: a sunset spin at Pier Top (66 minutes per revolution, pour accordingly), portholes and mermaids at the Wreck Bar, then a nightcap in the sand at Bamboo Beach on your way back up A1A to the Beachcomber.
Pier Top→Wreck Bar→Bamboo Beach Tiki Bar
Mixed · half day~6 hrs
The Pilgrim's Course
Pay respects at the Kreepy Tiki site on South Federal, then run north to the main event: a Mai-Kai wander through the gardens, happy hour in the Molokai bar, and a golden-hour rum runner at Bamboo Beach before rolling home to Pompano.
Kreepy Tiki→The Mai-Kai→Bamboo Beach Tiki Bar
Dead Reckoning · Hallandale to Miami BeachHalf day
The Dead Reckoning Run
South from Hallandale through the ruins of the Polynesian golden age — the South Pacific's thatched A-frames, built to take on the Mai-Kai; the Luau's moai on the 79th Street Causeway; Monte Proser's Beachcomber, where the Zombie wintered in the 1940s — ending with a living toast among 500 rums at the Kaona Room.
South Pacific Polynesian Restaurant & Gardens→The Luau→Monte Proser's Beachcomber→Kaona Room
Dead ReckoningHalf a day · 12 miles
The One That Lost
Two Polynesian compounds opened twelve miles apart on the same highway. Only one is still pouring. Take them in order — the gardens that are gone first, then the room that outlasted them — and the comparison does the work no plaque could.
South Pacific Polynesian Restaurant & Gardens→The Mai-Kai