Tiki Bar – Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort Hotel

Darlene is a terrible bar tender! If she is working, just leave! SAVE YOURSELF!
Stayed at the Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort for 3 nights this past weekend. This review is just for Darlene the bartender at the Tiki Bar within the hotel, not the hotel itself. Darlene was the bar tender for Saturday and Sunday. Katie was the bar tender the first night (Friday) and she was great! This review is not about Katie either!
Darlene is one of the worst bar tenders I have encountered. She allowed people, including herself, to add drinks to our tab without authorization, over charged us and constantly complained about her employers, co-​workers and customers to us.
In our first encounter she complained that she couldn’t open the bar because it wasn’t stocked for her the night before so now she has to do it all herself. She claimed the bar tender the night before over charged us but then she ended up charging the same and often more. Then she specifically told me how this customer sucked because they left a terrible tip and how another customer was nice because they were a better tipper, etc. In my opinion it was incredibly unprofessional.
She allowed others to add drinks to our tab without authorization. She then started adding her own drinks to our tab as well… She had recommended a mixed shot (vodka and tropical red bull), so my boyfriend told her she could make one for herself if she wanted as a thank you. After that she kept pushing this shot on us over and over again. We later realized that each time she made us that shot she automatically made herself one and added it to our tab. 6 shots later we have unknowingly bought her $ 50 worth of shots.
She had been nice to the kids so even though the bill was ridiculous I urged my boyfriend to tip her well and he did. The next day we see her again and she goes on and on about how she lost money and was forced to pay her boss back money because of us but screw him, she is going to over pour our drinks for us anyways.
Due to the issues we encountered with her and having a tab open, we refused to open a tab the next day. We paid cash for our drinks and were going to tip at the end of the night. Apparently she expected us to tip her for each individual drink so she started to get an attitude with us thinking we weren’t tipping her. I heard her talking crap under her breath and nicely let her know we would tip her at the end of the night. She continued with her attitude going on about how much she did for us the night before but now we are treating her so terribly and started creating a scene. By that point I was fed up with her. We have been perfectly polite the entire time to her and have put up with all the mistakes and how unprofessional she was. She has the nerve to make a scene on the last night of my vacation!!! Absolutely the worst service ever! She should be fired!

I really enjoyed my 2 days in a row here. Came back because I enjoyed my first day. The electric blue lemonade is great. And the chicken parmigiana sandwich and fries are to die for!

We are staying here for spring break for a week. The place is very neat and clean. What concerns me about the hotel is that they promise/​advertise more than they actually give. They have free wifi… But it’s outside of the rooms. They have free breakfast… Which happens to be a piece of toast and coffee ($ 6.99 extra if you want a hot breakfast). If you ask them any questions they a) don’t know the answer or b) act like you’re an idiot for asking a question in the first place. I am still giving them 3 stars though because of cleanliness, and closeness to the beach for the price. Also the main patio is super cute! Would recommend, but just know that you only get about half the amenities they promise.

Please don’t be deceived by the name, as I was, or perhaps it was the alluring price on Expedia. In any case, like I was saying — this place will have you believing it’s a getaway. Hence the words «hotel» and «resort.»
This could never dream of being either of the above, it’s a MOTEL!!!
I’ll take it even further and call it NOTEL.
This is the only place I’ve ever been to where the Wi-​Fi is discriminatory. Laptops will get the Wi-​Fi signal from inside of the rooms, but mobile devices, e.g.; iPads, iPhones will only work outside.
Here are the issues with that: The humidity is so ridiculous outside that the lenses of your sunglasses and the screens on your devices will fog up so bad you won’t be able to be see anything.
Don’t worry — the fogging up only screens you from seeing that you still can’t get a connection. EVEN OUTSIDE WHERE IT’S SUPPOSED TO WORK!!!
There’s no laundry facility, no irons, the fee to stay here is pretty good but there’s a host of hidden fees for other extremely minimal services; so be careful. There doesn’t appear to be much in the way of parking.
Even though all of the rooms are non-​smoking, they all still smell like smoke. Probably due in part to the fact that everyone at the motel’s Tiki Bar including the bar’s employees are smoking and that will obviously carry into the rooms which are mostly a few feet away.
On the plus side, the people here seem to be very nice. But it must be pretty frustrating for them to be telling people more of what they don’t have than what they do have.
Cleanliness seems to be very on par, but I’m starting to believe that I just experienced some blind luck.
At first I was going to say the cheeseburger at the restaurant was another plus — that’s until my system immediately rejected it in a variety of ways.
Do me, and more importantly yourselves a favor — fork out the extra money to stay at a real hotel and resort if that’s what you truly want.
Don’t vacation in a place that feels like it’s where you come to end it all, or makes you feel as though you’re a murderer or drug dealer in hiding.
Luckily because of an itinerary screw-​up I was only here one night, and that’s what I get for trying to be cheap.
The saying goes, «You get what you pay for.»
Ain’t that the truth!

I have been coming here for years now, Frank the owner is so attentive the crowd is great here today for Sunday Football ! Ask for Michael, Ace. Or Frank to be taken care of!

Cheap! Cheap! Cheap Drinks! I recommended it only for the drinks. I had 7 bud lights for 18.

i definitely wouldn’t seek this place out, but if your staying in the hotel or within walking distance on vacation its an ok place for a drink. The crowd (4 customers max during spring break) tends to be people who work there or the occasional couple wanting a drink. A bar drink menu would add a little substance. They have a pool table. When it says full bar on here, its about a 50% bar. I would say a step up from well drinks only. Wine in individual bottles and only bottles of beer.
If your staying in the hotel they typically offer happy hour prices all the time. It really doesn’t get very loud which is good if you need to get to bed early.

Hmm, dive bar? Yes! Good time? Yes! Kinda weird, but in a good way? Yes!

This is a horrible and terrible place! The service is bad, the crowd is bad, and there is really nothing worth it about this place. A funny thing… they have valet parking.

The Tiki Bar is an outside bar of the Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort. It’s a dive bar where everybody uses monosyllabic four letter words, most beginning with «F» and ending with «K.» Most of the patrons appear to have spent way too much money and time in tattoo parlors, and from the looks of their tattoos, my guess would be parlors of the cheaper kind. There is a 2 for 1 happy hour, but that only applies to well drinks. The only thing noticeable about their drinks is that they are served in small plastic cups and some of the worst drinks to be found in Fort Lauderdale; particularly if one weighs in the price they charge. In sort, this isn’t even a happy, good dive bar. It’s just a bunch of low life no fun loud mouths and a collection of sour puss types.