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Back at The Golden Tiki in Las Vegas in December 2024, this time for the holiday season. The tiki bar sits on Spring Mountain Road in Chinatown, a short ride off the Strip, and is known for its over-the-top decor, strong tropical cocktails and late hours.
At Christmas the whole place gets a festive makeover: Santa hats on the shrunken heads, lights everywhere, and a dedicated holiday cocktail menu alongside the regular tiki list. (I also wrote up an earlier visit in November 2023.)
Inside the bar
The bar is packed with skulls, carvings, pufferfish lamps and themed nooks – the photos and video below give a sense of the atmosphere, along with a few of the drinks.
The holiday menu
The December 2024 holiday menu ran alongside the usual tiki classics. A few highlights:
- Mai Tai for a Holiday – two rums with orange curaçao and a winter-spiced pumpkin orgeat ($14)
- Pumpkin Batida – cachaça, pumpkin, coconut cream and pineapple ($14)
- Tom & Jerry – the creamy hot holiday classic with Armagnac and dark rum ($15)
- Get Your Goat: A Pagan Christmas Miracle – goat’s-milk eggnog with smoky mezcal and maple ($16)
- Balls of Jolly #2 – dark rum, rye, cinnamon raisin, cranberry and pineapple, with an optional souvenir glass ($15 / $25)
- Holiday Flight – all the holiday sippers for $24, plus a Dole Soft Serve section with boozy add-ons
More drinks and decor
Tips if you go: it gets busy on weekend nights, so reservations are worth making through the bar’s website, and the shareable Kuuipo pineapple and fishbowl drinks are built for groups. Prices and menus change, so check what’s on before you go.
More tiki: Kahuna Tiki in LA and my round-up of Disney bars and tiki lounges.
Planning a Vegas food trip? See Three Days of Eating in Las Vegas from our November 2023 visit.
Make tiki drinks at home
If a trip to a tiki bar gets you hooked, here’s what we’d start with for a home bar. The full list is on our Tiki Bar Gear page.
- Tiki mugs, because the mug is half the fun
- Smuggler’s Cove by Martin and Rebecca Cate, the go-to tiki cocktail book
- Beachbum Berry Remixed by Jeff Berry, classic tiki recipes
- A cocktail shaker set with a jigger and strainer
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