The Tonga room at the Fairmont Hotel is an over the top Polynesian-style Tiki bar featuring indoor rain storms, but the hotel owners say it has no place in their renovations plan. That $130 million ...

Earlier this month, friends and I went to the Tonga Room, located in the famous Fairmont Hotel. It is the ultimate tiki lounge that transports you back to the 1940s. It was designed by Mel Melvin who ...

According to my colleague John King, there is a proposal from the owner of the Fairmont Hotel, Maritz Wolff and Co., to tear down the Tonga Room (along with a bunch of other stuff we don't care about) ...

Owner of The Republic, Bin 38 Looking to Relocate The Tonga RoomThe new developers plans for demolishing the Tonga Room include the preservation and sale of its assets. Tonga Room’s Final Fate to Be ...

It seems odd that the Fairmont wants to close the Tonga Room just as neo-neo-tiki is blowing up in artisan-cocktail circles. (Today, for instance, the New York Times reported on the opening of yet ...

The kitschy contents of the Tonga Room are steeped in so much history that state law requires them to be salvaged and reused or stored after the 1960s-era Tiki bar closes, officials ruled. The Tonga ...

How long did it take to lash the ships' ropes and assemble the thatch for the Tonga Room back in 1945? We bet it was considerably less than the long years it'll take to decide its fate. At our sister ...