Event: Arizona Tiki Oasis 2025
Website: www.aztikioasis.com
Date: April 24th – 27th, 2025
Location: Hotel Valley Ho,
6850 E Main St, Scottsdale, AZ 85251
Media Contact: Lee Joseph, Reverberations Media
lee@reverberationsmedia.com / 818-415-5543
Established in 2019, Arizona Tiki Oasis (April 24th-27th, 2025), is an island lifestyle meet-up held at one of the best-preserved Mid-Century hotels in America – Hotel Valley Ho (est.1956). Wear your most festive aloha wear; sip tropical cocktails crafted by top mixologists; browse the pop-up Art Show; relax in a cabana by the pool; learn about mid-century style, design, and lifestyle from experts; shop the outdoor marketplace with a variety of artists, makers, and traders; and, of course, enjoy the overall island-in-the-desert vibe.
EVENT TICKETS:
www.aztikioasis.com/event-tickets
Evening Resort Pass $159, Door Price $169
THURS APRIL 24 – SUNDAY 27th, 21 + ONLY
The Arizona Tiki Oasis 2025 Evening Resort Pass includes: access to curated evening events in distinctive private settings such as the Skyline Rooftop, sophisticated private suites, The Sands Nightclub (formerly Trader Vic’s), Meet & Mingle / Art Opening, The Stardust Social, exclusive suite soirées, evening entry to resort pools, Arizona Tiki Oasis Marketplace, scrumptious sample tastings.
The Deluxe Evening Resort Pass: Deluxe Evening Resort Pass $320
THURS APRIL 24 – SUNDAY 27th, 21 + ONLY
This ticket is only sold in advance.
The Arizona Tiki Oasis 2025 Delux Evening Resort Pass includes: ALL in the Evening Resort Pass PLUS one limited edition numbered Arizona 2025 Tiki Mug designed by Eekum Bookum. The Deluxe Pass is the only way to guarantee you get one of these collectible mugs! $150 value. This pass also includes an AZTO Tote Bag + VIP Goodies, an EXCLUSIVE kick-off cocktail party, and a speakeasy-style cocktail party.
Arizona Tiki Oasis benefits The Arizona Preservation Foundation.
NIGHT ACTIVITIES
LIVE AND DJ MUSIC ALL WEEKEND LONG!
Including The Martini Kings (LA), The Cocktails Hours (Tucson), Slack Key Obana (San Diego), Voodoo Five (LA), Moonlight Magic (Phoenix – pictured)
We also feature performer and multi-award winner at the esteemed Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, Ruby Joule, from Austin, Texas
DJ list forthcoming
Glam-O-Rama – Friday April 25, 7PM
Dress to the nines for a retro evening of fashion, food, cocktails and conversation. We’re kicking things off with a hip and classy VIP reception at the OHasis Pool at 6 p.m. Sip on featured drinks and snack on 50s-inspired hors d’oeuvres, plus take advantage of reserved seating for dinner in the courtyard (limited VIP tickets available).
This supper event starts at 7pm in the hotel’s lush Palm Court. Delight in a glamorous evening featuring live music by The Martini Kings, delightful drinks, and supper under the stars. Sip on top-notch tropical cocktails, with recipes crafted by top mixologists. Enjoy a Mid-Century Modern vintage fashion presentation by Clever Vintage, showcasing everything from caftans to evening wear.
$139 per person | + $50 for VIP reception
includes tax & gratuity
7TH ANNUAL AZ TIKI OASIS ART SHOW
SUNNY DAYS – STARRY NIGHTS
PRIVATE OPENING INCLUDED WITH RESORT PASS
Thursday 4/24: 7:30 pm-10 pm
Featuring 35 top Tiki Artists!
Open to the Public:
Friday 4/25 – Sunday 4/27: 10am-4pm
DAYTIME ACTIVITIES
SEMINARS
Join us as we celebrate Tiki and Mid-Century style with a variety of educational seminars. Everything you’ve wanted to know about Tiki and Mid-Century style will be covered, including architecture, music, fashion, cocktails, rum, and more!
Arizona Tiki Oasis 2025 presents well over 20 seminars including Palm Springs Tiki: Digging Deep into the Desert with tiki historian, cinematographer, photographer, and author Sven Kirsten; Pathways to the Pacific: Asian American Tiki Culture presented by chef and owner of Wusong Road, a Chinese restaurant in Cambridge Massachusetts, Jason Doo; Space Age Fashion – Fashion and Fun by the prominent ambassador for 1960s fashion and space age design, Switched on Audrey, Retro Riffs: MCM Cocktails with a Modern Twist by acclaimed international bartender, mixologist, and rum specialist Tiki Lindy; Bowlarama: The Architecture of Mid-Century Bowling by writer and Southern Californian architecture and culture historian Chris Nichols!
See the full list of seminars at this link https://www.aztikioasis.com/seminar-schedule-2025
Prices range from FREE – $65 per seminar
MARKETPLACE
Date: Saturday, April 26 – Sunday, April 27: 10 am-4 pm
Location: Hotel Valley Ho: 6850 E Main St., Scottsdale, AZ
Free and Open to the Public
Arizona Tiki Oasis 2025 presents the biggest tiki marketplace in Arizona!
Crafters, artists, tinkerers, and traders haul their wares to the Hotel Valley Ho, Scottsdale to participate in the biggest Tiki Marketplace in the entire state of Arizona!
ART SHOW
Date: Friday, April 25 – Sunday, April 27: 10 am-4 pm
Location: Hotel Valley Ho lobby: 6850 E Main St., Scottsdale, AZ
Free and Open to the Public.
Join us for our 7th annual Arizona Tiki Oasis Pop-Up Art Exhibit “Sunny Days – Starry Nights”. Curated by Tiki Oasis’ co-founder Baby Doe and featuring over 25 top, international Tiki artists, this pop-up exhibit will be open to the public all weekend long!
Full list of artists at this link: aztikioasis.com/art-show
LGBTiki MEETUP
This is an informal Saturday afternoon meetup for LGBTQI2S+ and their friends at Tiki Oasis.
ARIZONA TIKI OASIS BARTENDER BATTLE
Sunday, April 27, 2025
2:00 PM 3:30 PM
The Arizona Tiki Oasis Bartender Battle pits some of the best bartenders in Arizona against each other in a no-holds-barred, head-to-head cocktail throw-down! Sample some of the best, most innovative tropical cocktails while you cheer on your favorite bartending champion. They all may battle, but only ONE can win the title of Arizona Tiki Oasis Bartender Battle Champ 2025! This event is 21+
THE ANNUAL SATURDAY CAFTAN SOCIETY MEETUP
The Aloha Caftan Society is a community meet-up that started at Tiki Oasis a few years ago for the love of all things Caftan!
THE ANNUAL SUNDAY POOCH PARADE
AZ Tiki Oasis is a pup-friendly event! Dress your pooch in their best aloha wear and join us for a short stroll with lots of photo ops and prizes!
ABOUT TIKI OASIS
Arizona Tiki Oasis is the second event launched by the team of Otto and Baby Doe building on their original event Tiki Oasis. Launched in 2019, Arizona Tiki Oasis is now in its seventh year.
Southern California’s family-run Tiki Oasis was conceived in 2001 as a fundraiser to support the rehabilitation of the Palm Springs Caliente Tropics Motel, the most elaborate of a chain of five California Tropics motels and an important part of Tiki history. The event was moved to San Diego in 2006 to support the historic Bali Hai Restaurant and Hanalei Hotel. Now Tiki Oasis is held at Town and Country Resort and is proud to be the original and largest Tiki event in the world and features five nights and four days of live music, dance, DJs, vendors, poolside entertainment, kids activities, an art exhibit, plus top experts giving educational seminars.
THE CORE VALUES OF TIKI OASIS
Arizona Tiki Oasis is a family-run small business. Our core values reflect who we are. Arizona Tiki Oasis promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion; we empower marginalized groups through dialogue and action. Arizona Tiki Oasis promotes education and the sharing of ideas and knowledge; we believe in the historic preservation of American Pop Culture through the lens of modern-day values. Arizona Tiki Oasis promotes sustainable practices with a deep commitment to conservation and positive choices that support the health of our planet.
ARIZONA TIKI OASIS BENEFITS THE ARIZONA PRESERVATION FOUNDATION
Since 1979, the Arizona Preservation Foundation has worked with local, state, and national partners to promote and protect Arizona’s historic resources.
INDIGENOUS LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Arizona Tiki Oasis acknowledges the twenty-two Native Nations who have inhabited this land for centuries. Hotel Valley Ho, Scottsdale AZ is located in the Salt River Valley on the ancestral territories of Indigenous peoples, including the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and Piipaash (Maricopa), whose care and keeping of these lands allows us to be here today. We acknowledge the sovereignty of these nations. We were honored to have Vice President Ricardo Leonard from Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (www.discoversaltriver.com) for a land acknowledgment presentation at Arizona Tiki Oasis 2021.
