Post #755653 by mike and marie on Sun, Dec 6, 2015 11:42 AM

On 2015-12-01 10:16, Merkel City wrote:
December 2015 Tahitian resort / Holiday hotel updated information:
I currently work at the front desk of the hotel and I am also part of the renovation team. The hotel is under new ownership and is in the process of changing the name from Tahitian resort to holiday hotel. The bar and restaurant have been sub-leased out recently. The new name for the bar is "Prohibition" and will have its own identity and theme. There is a lot of improvements being implemented currently to bring the hotel back to life. I will be posting before and after pictures of the improvements we do very soon. Feel free to Let me know if you have any questions you would like answered about the hotel.

Hello,

Thank you so much for reaching out to Tiki Central and for posting about your plans for the property!

We visited the Tahitian several years ago to document the state of the property. We took many photos and had a very thorough look at the property as it was at the time. Although the management at the time very obviously had no idea what they had, and had let it fall into a less than ideal state, there was so much original tiki and historic elements left that we hoped an investor or buyer would come to carefully restore it. Tampa Bay had one of the largest concentrations of tiki in the country, and it's heartbreaking to see how much of it has disappeared -- so the Tahitian is really something special.

We hope that the present owners feel that way too, and it's a really good feeling to know that the renovation team is reaching out and posting online on Tiki Central about it! We'll be happy to help you in this project in any way we can, and we know that a lot of the other experts here on Tiki Central will do the same. The Tahitian is a mid-century modern tiki landmark, and we'd love to see it get carefully restored and become a Tampa Bay destination again!