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Christmas posts: holiday decorations, festive outings and seasonal photos.

  • The Golden Tiki Las Vegas: Holiday Menu and Tiki Cocktails

    The Golden Tiki Las Vegas: Holiday Menu and Tiki Cocktails

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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.

    Neon-lit bar and tiki decor inside the Golden Tiki in Las Vegas
    Shelves of shrunken heads in Santa hats at the Golden Tiki
    Blue skull tiki mug at the Golden Tiki
    Pink tiki cocktail with a pineapple garnish
    Red tiki cocktail with a paper umbrella
    Creamy white tiki cocktail with pineapple and an umbrella
    Glowing figure in a display case at the Golden Tiki

    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
    The Golden Tiki holiday cocktail menu, December 2024
    The Golden Tiki's regular cocktail menu in Las Vegas

    More drinks and decor

    Amber tiki cocktail in a footed glass at the Golden Tiki
    Green tiki cocktail garnished with an orchid and pineapple at the Golden Tiki
    Hula dancer figure wearing a Darth Vader helmet among flowers at the Golden Tiki
    Wall of shrunken heads in Santa hats under an Abandon All Hope sign at the Golden Tiki

    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.

    #LasVegas #GoldenTiki #TikiBar #VegasEats #TikiCocktails #HolidayCocktails #ChristmasInVegas #Vegas

  • Christmas 2014: Christmas Crunch, Holiday Cookie Crisp and Sprite Cranberry

    Christmas 2014: Christmas Crunch, Holiday Cookie Crisp and Sprite Cranberry

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    Update, November 2026: Christmas Crunch still comes back for the holidays as a limited edition. See our 2009 hunt for Christmas Crunch, or look for Christmas Crunch on Amazon.

    Well I had hoped to post more, I had other holiday items to write about, but here it is Christmas Eve and this is my first post in December.

    Well to get it out of the way first, I managed to find it again this year:

    Christmas Crunch 2014!
    Christmas Crunch 2014!

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  • Christmas 2013…

    Christmas 2013…

    It has been a while since my last post, but I can’t let a holiday season go by without writing about some random crap.

    How about Snickerdoodle milk?

    Yes, it is a real thing. Sold at Target.

    Snickerdoodle Milk

     

    I didn’t remember to grab a picture of what it actually looked like, but the packaging is a good representation. It is basically a little lighter colored than chocolate milk. I was somewhat apprehensive about the taste, but was pleasantly surprised. Basically cinnamony sweet tasting milk, like eggnog with a whole lot more cinnamon.

    The sweetness was too much for me though, I only drank half a glass.

    More important than Snickerdoodle milk, this year I managed to again find Christmas Crunch cereal!

    Christmas Crunch 2013 (Front)
    Christmas Crunch 2013 (Back)

    It had been a while since I’ve had Christmas Crunch. I was unsuccessful in my crunch quest in 2012 and 2011. My last successes were in 2010 and 2009.

    Actually I found this year’s Christmas Crunch back in November just before US Thanksgiving. That seems to be the sweet time to find it, last year I checked at least a dozen grocery stores along the I-5 corridor during the first week of December, but I think that it was too late.

    Christmas Crunch is essentially just a holiday-ified version of Captain Crunch Crunchberries edition, but that holiday-ification makes all the difference to me. There’s something about Christmas versions of food products that just call out to me.

    If you look closely in the Christmas Crunch photos you can make out the caboose of my new train. I’ve always wanted a model train to run around my tree and this year is the year I actually got one. Of course it took over a month, two locomotives, trips to the local train store, and a lot of patience, but eventually had a running train going around my tree.

    Train
    Christmas Train