This seaside resort opened in the 1960s (circa 1961), and advertised that they had "Four Exotic Cocktail Lounges - Polynesian and American Foods in Tiki, South Seas or Kona Rooms or in Beefeater Restaurant."

At some point it became the Sheraton Bel-Air Resort Hotel & Marina (which housed a Trader Vic's in 1971 and closed in 1973 -- possibly as late as 1975).

The property became a Days Inn in 1987, and in 1998 became the Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort. As of 2012, it was the Magnusson Hotel Marina Cove Resort and by 2020-2021 this location had fallen into disrepair.

In 2022, investor Ben Willner and his team purchased the 18-acre property for over $17 million and began renovations.

The resort, now named SkyBeach Hotel and Marina, contains 113 renovated guest rooms, a private beachfront, a rebuilt marina, a sports complex with pickleball courts, a two-story beachfront bar, a cafe, a food truck, and more.

A new bar & restaurant, South Seas Tapas, was slated for Fall 2025 as a 115-seat space serving Gulf Coast dishes with French and Asian influences, that also intended to have tropical drinks and honor the Pop Polynesian history of this location.

However, somebody decided to scrap this idea and the resort instead debuted Luma off its main lobby in December 2025, offering Mediterranean-inspired shared plates and coastal fare overlooking the marina.

Bummer. :(

Side note:

Luma has one rum cocktail on its menu: "Golden Paw" with Don Q Rum, Munyon's Florida Paw-Paw, Honey, Apricot, Lime -- $15.

Paw-Paws were once one of the most prolific fruits eaten in North America by natives and settlers but bruise easily and don't make sense to ship to grocery stores, so they fell out of favor. But they are delicious! Sort of a custardy banana mango profile. Munyon's debuted in 2023 as a paw-paw liqueur.

This tiki bar opened in 2002 after four years of effort by owners Scott Kramer and Steve Zumoff, who is co-partner in the new 2026 Spork Island Tiki Bar.

Tiki Lounge features three waterfalls, thatch & bamboo hut booths, and a large tiki head entrance reminiscent of the large tiki fireplace at the now defunct Kahiki Supper Club. Tiki Lounge offers a variety of tropical cocktails in souvenir tiki mugs. The bar is full of regulars and probably has more appeal to tikiphiles on weeknights, as on the weekend it becomes a packed hip-hop dance club.

This restaurant & bar was of the more generic, vaguely islandy sort, and appeared to only have a small muddling of Polynesian influence with more of an emphasis on Caribbean style... one of those places that thinks that you just add a little bamboo, thatch and the word "Island" before "Hot Wings" on your menu, and you've got a tiki bar. It opened in 2004, and was closed by 2011.

Opened in 1963, Harvey's original Mountain Tower was 11 stories tall and the first high-rise hotel at Lake Tahoe, featuring the Top of the Wheel Polynesian restaurant on the top floor. A glass elevator on the outside of the hotel tower took customers from the casino floor directly to the Top of the Wheel. The Tiki-themed decor for the Top of the Wheel was designed by Eli Hedley, the famous California beachcomber and artist who also designed Tiki shops at Disneyland, as well as Tiki restaurants and bars throughout California, Nevada, and around the country.

The restaurant's logo was the "Sneaky Tiki." Mugs from Harvey's are still quite easy to come by although the salt & pepper shakers remain rare.

The lower floors of the casino were heavily damaged by a bombing in 1980, part of a failed extortion attempt. The Top of the Wheel closed sometime in the early-to-mid 1980s. Harvey's Lake Tahoe has since rebuilt, but there is no tiki bar there today.

Pacific was a newer bar and restaurant, and featured several large tikis, a koi pond, pufferfish lamps, and a Polynesian pianist. Private huts were available on the second level. The restaurant went out of business in July 2008, but the drink menu has reportedly been preserved at its sister restaurant, Cheng's Oriental Restaurant, also in Sterling.

This location became home to a Sushi King restaurant from 2017-2020, but is vacant as of 2022.

Open as early as 1942, one of the best places in Portland to find a Polynesian Island escape was Pago-Pago at Southwest Sixth and Stark Street. This pre-tiki establishment showcased a tropical theme from its bar to its live band. According to The Oregonian, materials from seven different countries were used to decorate the club, which cost $25,000 to build. On the menu were tropical cocktails, which weren't common at the time. In the 1950s, Pago Pago and its adjoining Turf Club came under the scrutiny of police during a crackdown of secret gambling dens. It closed in 1952 after lease difficulties and battles with City Hall over its liquor license.

Tonga Lei was a restaurant and motel right on PCH in scenic Malibu, and operated from 1961 until around 1977, when it became a Don the Beachcomber.

It had an Aloha Room, Waterfall Room, and Tonga Room.

The beachside property had been a common celebrity-sighting spot. Jayne Mansfield, the platinum blond ‘50s pinup, attended the opening of the Tonga Lei and the restaurant bar was the favorite hangout of the late television star David Janssen.

The decision to raze the property was made in 1987.

It's now the non-tiki Malibu Beach Inn.

*NOTE: Photo of entrance to the "Aloha Lounge" below is speculated to be a side entrance, not the main entrance.

This was the original location for Psycho Suzi's Motor Lounge, which opened on this spot in an old A & W Drive-In in 2003.

In November 2010, Psycho Suzi's moved to its last location, which was much larger and more grand, just down the street. That location closed on August 19th, 2023.

The Luau was located in the "County Airport," a.k.a. Borrego Valley Airport, and opened some time in the '50s or '60s. Open at least as late as 1967. The restaurant in the airport today is The Propeller Bar & Grill at 1816 Palm Canyon Drive, but it is not clear if this is the same space that once held the Luau.

This property started out in 1948 as "El Rancho" and was built by Jack Nelson on 13 acres along Highway 17.

In 1965, it was renovated and re-themed as the Hawaiian Village Motel and Restaurant.

The restaurant had a small river running through it, with bamboo bridges to get across, and live bands in the "Bora Bora" room for entertainment.

The restaurant was destroyed by fire on Sept. 7, 1974. At the time, it was owned by Marion Cannon of Myrtle Beach, and Jack Shaw of Greenville, SC.

Currently, and since 1979, the site is home to the Village Square Shopping Center -- which is one of the earliest strip malls built in the area.

Owned and operated by Charles Chang and family, Fiji Island was around for at least thirty years, and at one time had a sister location in a Holiday Inn in Charlottesville, VA.

Food was typical Chinese, and drinks were served in tiki mugs (one of the bartenders here once worked at Trader Vic's).

There were tikis throughout, but they were of the brightly-painted variety that appears to be more common in that part of the country.

The basement of Fiji Island hosted a sometimes loud dance club, called the Club at Fiji.

Closed August 2016.

This hotel, located about 40 minutes southeast of Chicago, featured a tropical atrium with an indoor pool, a waterfall, fake palm trees and some large tikis. There was a bar in the atrium, called the Khaki Club, that had live entertainment on Fridays and Saturdays.

The Radisson was leveled to make room for new development in 2017.