- July 10, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Mai Tais. Rain showers. Cheesy pop band on a boat. Pu pu platter snacks.
The Tonga Room, The City’s best and most beloved Tiki bar in The Fairmont hotel, celebrated its reopening with a VIP happy hour party Thursday featuring performances by gorgeous Polynesian dancers and special guests who reveled in the iconic lounge’s history.
“This place has my name on it,” said veteran Bay Area news and show biz personality Jan Wahl, who added that she once went on TV and helped save it when it was in danger of closing. She added, “Where else do you get a band in the middle of the water?”
Jan Wahl, wearing a hat specially bedazzled for the Tonga Room party, is a longtime fan of the iconic lounge. (Leslie Katz/The Examiner)
The Island Groove, playing on the thatch-covered barge in the lagoon (once The Plunge, the hotel’s original pool in 1929) is the same top-40 outfit that’s graced the room for years, said Michelle Heston, Fairmont…
