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Tiki Fever

“The most intimate tiki event on the planet,” built around Florida's oldest tiki bar

Thu Nov 5 → Sat Nov 7, 2026

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DatesNov 5–7, 2026

Host VenueGolden Host Resort & the Bahi Hut

ScaleSmall by design — ~200–300 people

FormatRoom crawl, live music, marketplace, rum tastings, event mugs

Ticketstikifever.com

Foundedc. 2021

The tiny one, at a historic anchor. Tiki Fever bills itself as the most intimate tiki weekender going — a couple hundred people taking over the restored 1950s Golden Host Resort on Sarasota's North Trail, whose lounge is the Bahi Hut: Florida's oldest tiki bar, pouring since 1954. This is Gulf-coast Florida, a different world from The Hukilau's Fort Lauderdale — and the chart reaches up the coast to the great lost sites of Tampa Bay, including the county parking lot that still, incredibly, bears the name Tiki Gardens.

The Chart

27°22′N · 82°32′W

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Layers

Sarasota · Gulf coast approaches

Soundings in rum · Not for navigation

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Operating · old & newan evening + a drive

The Gulf Coast Crawl

Sarasota tiki spans seventy years in two stops. The Bahi Hut is the host and the whole point — Florida's oldest tiki bar, 1954, its Mai Tai unchanged and famously strong. For the modern counterpoint, drive 25 minutes east to Maya Speaktiki, a false-cabinet-door speakeasy in Lakewood Ranch.

Bahi Hut→Maya Speaktiki

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Dead Reckoning · lost sitesa day trip north

The Tampa Bay Ghost Run

The great losses are up the coast toward Tampa. Tiki Gardens in Indian Shores drew half a million a year to its Adventure Trail — now a county lot that still bears the name — and Tampa's Hawaiian Village was a 246-room Polynesian complex with a flaming moai. An hour or two north of the host resort; make a day of it.

Tiki Gardens→Hawaiian Village

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Know Before You Go

First-timer intel

It's genuinely tiny

Tiki Fever caps at a few hundred people by design — the pitch is intimacy, not spectacle. Passes and the on-site room block go fast precisely because there aren't many. Book early or not at all.

The Bahi Hut is the reason

You're drinking in Florida's oldest tiki bar, essentially unchanged since 1954. The Bahi Mai Tai is small, strong, and not to be underestimated — pace yourself accordingly.

This is the Gulf coast, not Miami

Sarasota is a different Florida from The Hukilau's Atlantic side — quieter, older, west-facing sunsets. Fly into Sarasota-Bradenton (SRQ) or Tampa (TPA, ~an hour north).

The ghosts are a northward drive

Tiki Gardens (Indian Shores) and the Hawaiian Village site (Tampa) are up toward Tampa Bay, an hour-plus each. Build a day around them if you're a Dead Reckoning pilgrim — and pair with the Bahi Hut for a bookend of living-and-lost.

Survival Guide

Provisions & resupply

Liquor

North Trail Liquors — Closest full liquor store to the Golden Host, about a mile south down the Trail — next to Memories Lounge (open to 2am) if you need a nightcap.

Mon–Sat 9am–10pm, Sun 9am–7pmMap ↗

Ice

N Tamiami Trail gas/convenience — Several gas stations line the Trail within a mile for late bagged-ice runs. Pin the exact nearest one on the ground — this is a corridor placeholder.

Most 24hMap ↗

Late-Night Food

The Mable Bar — On the same North Tamiami corridor a couple miles south, cheap late bites (the foot-long is a signature). Tamiami Tap downtown is the backup for a real late kitchen.

Late — confirm current kitchen hoursMap ↗