The home bar tour had a hard limit on the number of guests that could be accommodated on the buses and in the home Tiki bars, so unfortunately there were some folks who were disappointed by having their ticket downgraded or refunded. The hot item was the VIP ticket, which included all events, a private VIP cocktail lounge, and a Sunday home Tiki bar tour. We had opted to just purchase a la carte tickets to the Friday and Saturday night events, and our ticket purchase made it through and was not part of the oversold ticket group. The site crash was a bit of a mess, and I really felt for the producers as they scrambled to go through transactions by time stamp and sort out over-sold VIP tickets. It seems that the Tiki revival is growing, which was confirmed when the Tiki Kon website crashed within minutes of tickets going on sale this year. This is no small undertaking and I am very impressed with what they have managed to pull off. It is run by a couple with the help of volunteers, in addition to their full time jobs. Tiki Kon started as a small bar crawl of home Tiki bars in the Portland area in 2003, and has since become a fairly large production. When we read that Portland, Oregon hosts an annual Tiki Kon every summer, we figured it might be time to check out this cult that we may have inadvertently joined. I began reading up on Polynesian Pop and Tiki cocktails, and we formed a hobby of scouring antique stores for mid-century treasures and Polynesian art. We’ve realized since the initial build-out of our Tiki bar that adding to a Tiki bar can easily become an obsession. We found vintage bar at an estate sale, put up some grass matting and bamboo, a grass thatch overhang and invested in a Tiki mug collection. In 2015, we bought a house with a basement and I convinced Paddy that a Tiki bar was of utmost necessity.
Since then, I had always fantasized about having a basement Tiki bar in my house. I’m also a big fan of Polynesia and spent some time living in Hawaii and learning about Pacific Island cultures in college. Portland’s Tiki Kon 2018: Dipping our toes into the rum-soaked tropical fantasy-land of the Tiki revival communityīoth Paddy and I have always been fans of mid-century pop culture.
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