The Tiki Bar

Drinking a frozen daiquiri under a thatched roof inside a medieval castle sounds made up, but that’s exactly what MGM built when it dropped its first-ever tiki bar into Excalibur. The happy hour runs every single day, which puts it ahead of most Strip bars that only bother on weekdays.

The Tiki Bar’s happy hour runs daily from 5-7pm with $8 tiki specialty cocktails and frozen daiquiris, plus $5 domestic beers and $6 imports.

Order This:

• Whip Tai — pineapple whip on top, built for the photo before the sip
• Buzzed Tiki Torch — RumChata, Fireball, coffee liqueur, and banana liqueur, which sounds chaotic and mostly works
• A Tiki Flight if you can’t commit to just one

Excalibur spent three decades as the Strip’s budget castle, so a tropical bar next to the MGM Rewards desk shouldn’t work on paper — dragon lore and lava rock walls next to a jousting arena is a genuinely weird pairing. But that’s the trade-off: full-price tiki drinks here run $17-18, so the daily two-hour window is the only reason to actually order one. It’s not trying to out-craft The Golden Tiki, and it doesn’t need to — it’s a cheap, campy sit-down option for anyone staying at Excalibur, Luxor, or Mandalay Bay who doesn’t want to leave the property.

No cover, no reservation needed — just walk in off the casino floor. Live music kicks in around 9pm on weekends, but the happy hour pricing itself runs every day of the week, castle theme included.