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| - I am a fan of the blue cocktail drinks. Delicious adult beverages that include the Blue Hawaiian. They are delicious and bring you to a state of Space Mountain relatively fast. I notice that I am a friendlier drinker when drinking the Blue Hawaiian than a Whiskey Neat. Friends joke with me that these are girl's drinks. If they only knew how good they are. But they are only joking and to each their own. And to the lover of the colorful drinks, Franki's Tiki Room is our own.
Franki's Tiki Room is an indoor fantasy world of tikis and the Southern Seas off the heavily traveled Charleston Boulevard (Route 159) between Interstate 15 and Rancho Boulevard. It is a fantasy world that I have been to twice to feel at home enjoying a strong blue and yellow concoction.
From the outside there is nothing striking about Franki's Tiki Room. It reminds me of a building next to a gas station from the 1970s. As soon as you enter Franki's Tiki Room you enter the dark side. Literally! The inside is known for being pitch dark to the degree that a smartphone flash light is advantageous. In one of my tips, I half-joked that this is the place to go to meet somebody if you have a bad hair day and that after one drink it wouldn't matter anyway. Realistically the darkness adds to the uniqueness of the experience. It was an experience that I spent at the bar instead of at the tables that are really dark.
The bar is a unique place to hang out. And that is even before drinking a Tiki Bandit. It is very themed. All around the room are tikis. Once your eyes adjust, you are sitting in this tiki museum. According to the Franki's Tiki Room official website, Bamboo Ben who is the grandson of Eli Hedley the man that helped design Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room played an essential role in designing it. Regardless of whether or not my eyes adjusted, the soundtrack of surf, exotica, and garage music was a conducive soundtrack to enjoying the blue and yellow drinks that I so enjoy.
The drinks here are potent. They are rated on a scale of 1 to 5 skeletons that parallel the star system on a yelp review. A 5 skeleton drink is the strongest. The both times I went here I was driving. I made an agreement to stick to one drink. Using a Disney World analogy, the one drink never brought me to a state of Space Mountain where they put me to a state of being on the Mad Hatter Tea Ride. I will close off this review mentioning alternatives to a DWI or worse if you plan on having a few drinks at Franki's Tiki Room. That will be later.
On my two different Franki's Tiki Room experiences, I drunk the Tiki Bandit and the Thurston Howl. The Tiki Bandit is a delicious blue three Skelton strong drink made up of rums, pineapple juice, passion fruit syrup and blue curacao. It tastes like quality Kool Aid. The next time I went a skeleton stronger opting for the Thurston Howl. It is a yellow adult beverage of rum, brandy, gin, and papaya nectar. The official Franki's Tiki Room website states, "A couple of these and Lovey Howell will look like Ginger Grant." This is one of the reasons that I stress using public transit or a cab if you intend to have a few drinks here.
Franki's Tiki Room is not the place to sober up. There is zero hangout spots nearby. If I knew that I was going to have a few drinks here, I would have a couple of options. Option 1 would be parking at Palace Station then using the CAT 119 route which runs along Rancho and get off at Charleston Boulevard walking eastbound. On the way back I would use a taxi. Option 2 would be to park in downtown and use the CAT 206 route. This route also serves the Bonneville Transfer Station. Just say that I did not follow my advice and was drinking; I would dial (702)-456-7433 to reach a service that transports impaired individuals.
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