Epic Tiki Motel in Southern California! Full tour and stay at Caliente Tropics Resort

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  • Опубликовано: 31 янв 2025

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  • @robertbess1588
    @robertbess1588 Год назад +1

    I recall passing that dinosaur on the way home from Palm Springs many times over the decades. (I’m 60+) 😮😂❤

  • @HughRaine
    @HughRaine Год назад +1

    Ha! I used that same background music @28:00 when we stayed at Disney's Polynesian Village Resort! I think I searched for "Tropical"! 🌴Absolutely love the tiki aesthetic. Great video, Justin!🍍

  • @rmannayr2129
    @rmannayr2129 Год назад +2

    EPIC TIKI MOTEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @cspat1
    @cspat1 Год назад +1

    Thank you Justin for sharing, so cool! glad you finally got to stay at the Tropics.

  • @robinmichel9048
    @robinmichel9048 Год назад +1

    If you ever make your way east on Interstate 80, stop off for the night at the Scott Shady Court in Winnemucca, Nevada. It originally opened as a motor camp in the 1920s and then added motel rooms in the 1930s with expansions into the 1960s. The lobby is fantastic 1960s luxe. The "new" rooms (circa 1960s" are time capsules. It's truly a time machine and I love it.

  • @lizlocher3612
    @lizlocher3612 Год назад

    Gotta love ❤️💕🤩 Julio!!! He's the totally great travel companion always up to some "Random land" shenanigans!!!! The Dinos are great!!! Wish I could see the old motel n diner you are speaking of!!!

  • @rmannayr2129
    @rmannayr2129 Год назад +1

    KING OF THE CASTLE!

  • @valmor1073
    @valmor1073 Год назад +1

    Great video.I am a bit older and Justin was the first U tube broadcaster I started watching.He has never let me down.He continues to be the best of all of them.He is the most likeable and entertaining not to mention informative.Great to see him back.

  • @lizlocher3612
    @lizlocher3612 Год назад

    The Reef is superb!!! So many niches to explore while eating n drinking, of which that Pink Ambrosia drink looked fabulous!!! Too bad Julio had to stay outside!!! Love him ever so!!! What a grand place,!!! I would love to live there.. thanks for showing me the Caliente Tropics Motel. Attaboy, Justin Scarred!!!

  • @lizlocher3612
    @lizlocher3612 Год назад

    The whole place inside n out is totally 1950's n 1960's tiki awesome!!! Reminds me of the kitchen in the first house we lived in when we were growing up, the curtains n furniture are exactly like stuff we had all over our houses back in the 1960's!!! Love the Palm leave ceiling fan, great bathroom excellent supplies provided, frig., Hair dryer, safe, desk. Wonderful room.

  • @lizlocher3612
    @lizlocher3612 Год назад

    Never heard of the "Caliente Tropics Motel""" n can't wait to see it!!!! I managed two different small old roadside motels in Ohio in the 2000s era, n I lived in many more when I was a dancer in Detroit, n I 💕💕 seeing iconic old original roadside motels kept alive for future generations to enjoy!!! Attaboy, Justin Scarred, for staying there n sharing it with us!!!

  • @jamesfrog
    @jamesfrog Год назад

    The Julio segment at the end is awesome!😂😂

  • @jessesshow1
    @jessesshow1 Год назад

    Bro you actually make awesome content for everyone/kids. My 4 year old son love watching you, we get hyped to go on vacation. These other 50 year old vacation bloggers that make 1000 videos about going to Disneyland are literally laughable and cringe! Thank you for being exciting and fun brother , love from AZ

  • @stevenartw
    @stevenartw Год назад

    Aloha Justin and Julio! Thank you for that dino time and then the tropical fun time in Palm Springs! Me and a friend who also loves mid-century everything, had a delicious meal and fun tiki drinks at the Reef a few years ago. Thanks for all the fascinating research and history that you included in your video, much enjoyed and much appreciated! Aloha!

  • @pirategirl58
    @pirategirl58 Год назад

    Julio! I love Julio! Great vlog, Justin! I love the old places! They have so much character!

  • @moni_venus
    @moni_venus Год назад +1

    Amo estos videos, me hacen sentir como si ya conociera todo estados unidos cuando apenas he visitado la frontera. Me encanta que nos hace sentir como si fuéramos compañeros de viaje e vez de estar viendo un programa.
    Amo a Justin, a su prometida y a todos los amigos que han hecho a lo largo de los años estos video más chistosos y bonitos.❤

  • @amberfantinato1702
    @amberfantinato1702 Год назад

    Oh my gosh Justin we can’t wait to watch this video! My husband & I are staying here later this year and we’re so excited!! 😆😆 your vid is perfect timing! Thank you 🙏🏼

  • @chrish9698
    @chrish9698 Год назад

    The wife and I will definitely have to add this to the list of places to visit and hopefully stay in when we pay a visit to California! Great video my friend 😁.

  • @lauraslanesvanlifetravels
    @lauraslanesvanlifetravels Год назад +1

    I recently went there...to Palm Springs, for the first time. I'm a photographer and I loved that architecture so much! I love re-visiting all the photo's I took thru this video...including a drive by photo snapshot of the front of that hotel...I went up into the mountain tram too! That was so cool...I have a fear of heights so it was so cool to face that fear! There was snow up there when I went in January...I left on the 13th, went there, Joshua Tree, up to LA/Santa Monica Pier and then, for the 1st time also...San Francisco! It was a fun 2 week car life (w/my cat!) journey..unfortunately, on the way back...my car died! But at least it made for great content for my channel! Thanks for making this...hoping maybe there will be more from Palm Springs :)

  • @jenniferjones-edwards9729
    @jenniferjones-edwards9729 Год назад

    Awesome! I love those places where you can step back in the past. Also, I was born in 1970 😯 and alot of that stuff was still around when I was growing up. My Mom's house had all that avocado green, harvest gold, brown, rust colored everything! So did my aunts and uncles. My grandma's house was older school than that! But yeah, I remember that stuff. That's why the 80s was so different and crazy!

  • @3939michele
    @3939michele Год назад

    wow. my family would always stay at The Tropics when we were kids in the 60's. It was closed for a long time. We loved it!

  • @dinawolyniec5160
    @dinawolyniec5160 Год назад

    What an awesome place, looks better than Walt Disney World did to the Polynesian Resort . Well blended theming . They did a good job keeping the history too. Great video ! My be Hulo needed a take away drink ....dreaming of aliens 😅 may be to much funny weed seeds...oh wait what that 👽😂

  • @00Mandy00
    @00Mandy00 Год назад

    Thanks!

  • @helenmoreno5631
    @helenmoreno5631 Год назад

    This was so cool! I love anything TIKI!🌴🌴🌴 Thanks Justin!

  • @carolynnj4698
    @carolynnj4698 Год назад

    Always love seeing you with Julio

  • @deborahmolenda2112
    @deborahmolenda2112 Год назад

    Your amazing Justin! Thanks for EVERYTHING YOU DO! SCHMIL'n NOW!

  • @caseyzaragoza9884
    @caseyzaragoza9884 Год назад

    The Palm Springs Punch at the Reef is magical!

  • @agustdan6599
    @agustdan6599 Год назад

    I love that you drop knowledge and the history of the places you visit. Julio and the alien is an appreciated bonus. Continue to show us more.

  • @garrettgonzales3556
    @garrettgonzales3556 Год назад +2

    Love the hotels that still stay true to the open road and vintage vibes. Was hoping the room would've had at least cool vintage photos of 50s palm springs.

  • @markhannah8434
    @markhannah8434 Год назад

    We just went this place for the first time a couple weeks ago and loved it. Highly recommend. Great video!

  • @rmannayr2129
    @rmannayr2129 Год назад +1

    OMG THE ENDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @marisa0209
    @marisa0209 Год назад

    The ending!!!!😂 great video! I love this hotel and the bar!

  • @johnroot4886
    @johnroot4886 Год назад

    That place looks amazing, thanks for the wonderful videos Justin and thank you for all you do

  • @lynettetruitt7534
    @lynettetruitt7534 Год назад

    Love tiki. I would love to set up a tiki bar/room in my home with all the tiki decor. What a fun feel it gives you. Thanks for the video, good job!

  • @trixievelvet
    @trixievelvet Год назад

    Yay! I always look forward to your videos! I love cabazon where you started 🥰

  • @ericlindenmuth7517
    @ericlindenmuth7517 Год назад

    Love me some Tiki!!! Thanks for showing us the Caliente, I didn't know about it.

  • @julieclarke621
    @julieclarke621 Год назад

    Yes….All very cool!… wonderful narrative! Great entertainment!

  • @rickbrooks2692
    @rickbrooks2692 Год назад

    Thank you so much for the video. I lived in Palm Springs for many years. Great memories.

  • @kvon432k
    @kvon432k Год назад

    Love that place! Great video Justin. Also the filming location of Alpha Dog! Keep up the good work.

  • @ksavage681
    @ksavage681 Год назад

    That place is so cool. I would definitely stay there. Thanks for the great tour of it!

  • @gordonwchas
    @gordonwchas Год назад

    Wow, you really go in depth! This was amazing. Sambo's was pronounced Sam, like son of Sam. (sorry, it was that or Sam I am) Of course, the Sambo's had to close. Quote from Wikipedia - "In the latter half of the 1970s, pressure began to mount on the chain to change its name, drawing protests and lawsuits in communities that viewed the term Sambo as pejorative towards black Americans." My parents used to take me to one in Texas when I was a kid in the 60's and I remember the pictures on the wall and my mom telling me the story of "Little Black Sambo." It was the first story I ever heard about an African boy and it opened my mind to other kids around the world who were different from me.

  • @gungho1284
    @gungho1284 Год назад

    Thanks for the tour. I love all things Tiki! And mid-century.

  • @jeromegiles15
    @jeromegiles15 Год назад

    Hi Justin, I saw you at Knott's yesterday. Wanted to say hi. But I ran into Mr Woo once and did a stop and chat. It was awkward. I love him but he is chill and relaxed we weren't on the same level. I didn't see you with a camera, so figured you weren't working. However you were decked out in full Randomland gear. Maybe you just wear that everyday anyways. Love you channel and keep up the good work. Thanks for providing such awesome content.

  • @MonsterKidCory
    @MonsterKidCory Год назад

    I've always heard about the Caliente Tropics but have never had opportunity to stay there, so thanks for the tour!

  • @julieclarke621
    @julieclarke621 Год назад

    Love the last act. Great surprise! 😂

  • @TheWorldAccordingtoJim
    @TheWorldAccordingtoJim Год назад

    Absolutely awesome shirt 👍... Wonderful video

  • @nv4699
    @nv4699 Год назад

    😂Twere a night like this... Large Marge. Julio looks terrified.😮🐔

  • @julienicol9202
    @julienicol9202 Год назад

    So cool, I’m coming to California soon for a concert! I can’t wait to see some of the tiki stuff there! I’m from Canada so it’s super exciting to me, I think that it actually might be in my itinerary to go to an existing tiki bar and see what it’s about. I don’t drink too much either even though I am of age, it’ll mainly be about the decor there.

  • @forthejoyofvegas9375
    @forthejoyofvegas9375 Год назад

    Very Cool Video, KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK HAVE a Blessed night ❤

  • @RedheadedMama
    @RedheadedMama Год назад

    Such a cool video! Thank you, Justin! It reminds me of what a Trader Sams hotel would look like! Very Polynesian! Hello from Maryland!

  • @brandonbordewyk
    @brandonbordewyk Год назад

    Love The Caliente Tropics! I stayed there on my 2019 road trip through Cali. Was so sad to see Don's closed, but I stopped to take a pic and pay my respects. You should go check out the legendary Mai-Kai in Fort Lauderdale when it reopens!

  • @tomakealongstoryshorter
    @tomakealongstoryshorter Год назад

    This was great Justin! I love that motel.

  • @twc3546
    @twc3546 Год назад

    This is like the Randomlands of years gone by

  • @stasiasfamilyadventures6318
    @stasiasfamilyadventures6318 Год назад

    Let’s talk about that sticker I say a sneak peek of ? Also that ending was fantastic some of my favorite moments are the ones that make me laugh so much ! Great job making the best tv show !

  • @airtiki2374
    @airtiki2374 Год назад

    OMG I would be stealing the drapes!😍will have to look into that place. Should have gone to the SHAG store Also great editing

  • @spacini
    @spacini Год назад

    Thanks for a very entertaining, random journey. Aloha.

  • @Thecorgially
    @Thecorgially Год назад

    Thanks for a great tiki tour. The ambrosia looked great.

  • @joycepollyanna8414
    @joycepollyanna8414 Год назад

    I’ve stayed there several times and always enjoyed it.

  • @kmm129
    @kmm129 Год назад

    Just what the Dr. ordered. Much appreciated.

  • @wordledad
    @wordledad Год назад

    These end credit scenes are out of this galaxy.

  • @Dave_Boyer
    @Dave_Boyer Год назад

    So cool, I’m heading to Palm Springs on October, I can’t wait!!

  • @twc3546
    @twc3546 Год назад

    Love the whole tiki vibe 🗿🌴

  • @mareekatz
    @mareekatz Год назад

    Wow!!!!! What a fun one 😉🦕🦖🍹

  • @thebrinksf69
    @thebrinksf69 Год назад

    I knew Sancho's was Sambo's. Miss that decor. That tiki bar is amazing. Bedrooms look great. Place looks cool at night too all lit up

  • @dasutobani
    @dasutobani Год назад

    I had no idea they repainted the Cabazon Dinos. Remember seeing them as a kid. Good memories every time I rewatch Pee-Wee.

  • @slackert9x
    @slackert9x Год назад

    Gonna have to stay there now! Looks awesome

  • @psfdtraining5427
    @psfdtraining5427 Год назад

    My favorite motel!!! Love the history 🤙

  • @carlowminis198
    @carlowminis198 Год назад

    BTW…Another great video. Fantastic!

  • @jimmbo2
    @jimmbo2 Год назад

    Great stuff man, very funny 😂

  • @hallking7441
    @hallking7441 Год назад

    Wow what an amazing motel!

  • @nancycowell-miller4321
    @nancycowell-miller4321 Год назад

    I stayed there in early March. There was SNOW on those mountains!
    I was on a Tiki Decor reconnaissance mission and hit all 3 tiki bars in PS. The Reef was my favorite. Sadly, they did not have the ingredients for Spike's favorite cocktail, the Ambrosia, but the bartender concocted an equally-delicious alternative.

  • @AskMeWhen
    @AskMeWhen Год назад

    When I was a kid I always wanted to visit those dinosaurs. Sadly my parents didn’t want to drive from VA all the way out there. PWBA is still one of my all time favorite movies.

  • @BLAZER20091
    @BLAZER20091 Год назад

    Awesome video Justin it's awesome

  • @0therun1t21
    @0therun1t21 Год назад

    Thank god they saved it, this place is beautiful! I like the new rooms better too.
    I'm jealous you're friends with Spike, I watch his channel regularly.
    I don't know if I wanna hang out in a place racist towards chickens and infested with aliens, poor Julio...wait, I really do, I'll just sneak my chicken friends in disguised as parrots.

  • @bethgood3214
    @bethgood3214 Год назад

    Excellent video, Justin

  • @scotts4596
    @scotts4596 Год назад

    You'd definitely enjoy The Atomic Motel in Astoria, Oregon! Hope you make it back to The PNW asap!

  • @TimelapseSends
    @TimelapseSends Месяц назад

    Staying here tonight!

  • @Moondoggy1941
    @Moondoggy1941 Год назад

    We were coming back from Oklahoma for Christmas, late 70's it was really late and it was snowing, there was snow caps on the dinosaurs, the freeway only had barely one lane open

  • @canalfloridabrasil
    @canalfloridabrasil Год назад

    We can't stop laughing... King in the castle, King in the castle.... Very niiice!

  • @ricardopolanco9477
    @ricardopolanco9477 Год назад

    This my favorite motel to stay every time I go with family

  • @stephanieace
    @stephanieace Год назад

    Great video! We have a Big Ed tiki in our backyard next to our Tiki Bar, “Wayward Traders” (as in if we’re not at Trader Sam’s we’re wayward).

  • @UncleChud
    @UncleChud Год назад

    That mid century hotel room look more interesting than that new echoing prison looking room❕

  • @planetaescapa6099
    @planetaescapa6099 Год назад

    Good lord ! You are a freak 😮and I like it 😬😊✅🇫🇷🇺🇸

  • @nathaliefaupel9452
    @nathaliefaupel9452 Год назад

    Great episode!

  • @Av-vd3wk
    @Av-vd3wk Год назад +1

    It was also in the awesome 80’s movie, The Wizard. And they did film inside.

  • @robertlucido3686
    @robertlucido3686 Год назад

    You should check out the Crossroads Village and Huckleberry Railroad in Flint, Michigan

  • @dalemorison7918
    @dalemorison7918 Год назад

    You Had to put that, "Enchanted Tiki Room," song back into my head again, didn't you!! Now I'll Never get it back out again!!

  • @halley42
    @halley42 Год назад

    Fantastic resort, but also what a cool shirt!! do you know where it's from, Justin? I got to get one of those in my life!!

  • @lesliechu8879
    @lesliechu8879 Год назад

    Silly Justin scared of Capzone Dinos! Would be cool if Justin pranked Ally by scaring her with a Jurassic World Allosaurus figure of course?🦖 Crumbling Ceratosaurus!🦕

  • @elflvr04
    @elflvr04 Год назад

    What was the name of that coffee shop that was next to the motel? If it was Sambo's...yikes! But I digress. I really like this architecture and the general time period clothing. Thanks Justin!❤

  • @Dragon0647
    @Dragon0647 Год назад

    Best opening ever 😂

  • @josephsenko4294
    @josephsenko4294 Год назад +1

    Man, I was choked up through this whole thing. Between how excited you always are (rightly so) and the intense nostalgia for a time I never experienced, these awesome videos always get me a bit misty. I think because my parents were born in the 40s and 50s, I feel a strong bond to the experience they had, and a wish to experience SOME of it myself. Mostly the architecture and the items/ technology and big dreams for the future... with tikis... lol.

    • @FarocheCouture
      @FarocheCouture Год назад

      I know what you mean!! Born in the early 70's, but spent a lot of time growing up at my grandma's house in Bremerton, Washington (the Pacific Northwest had its fair share of Tiki restaurants and bars back in the day, due to an abundance of military/soldiers returning from the Pacific).
      My grandma's house was full-on Mid-Century in the 70's (the 'holdover' décor that grandparent-homes often have), and I was very close to her. She's long since passed, but there's just something about the whole Mid-Mod & Tiki theme that just soothes me, while also punching me in the nostalgia gut at the same time..... maybe even more so now that I've lived overseas for 20+ years. When I go home to the USA for a visit, I always want to come back to "the way it used to be". Of course that's not possible, but at least in places like Palm Springs/Caliente Tropics, I can get closer to the memories.
      To quote Bob Dylan: "You can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way."

  • @ladyruby684
    @ladyruby684 Год назад

    ❤ this channel!!

  • @xdialga361445x
    @xdialga361445x Год назад

    Spike would love that place for sure

  • @cathyspencer3001
    @cathyspencer3001 Год назад

    Diny got a new paint job since we were there last summer😊🦕

  • @rmannayr2129
    @rmannayr2129 Год назад +1

    THAT'S A GIANT DINOSAUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @stefaniemarsland626
    @stefaniemarsland626 Год назад

    Stayed here last year It is MCM dream. Only downer, ac units were not very efficient and slept in an uncomfortably warm room, but I was so tired after my day at Disneyland it was fine lol

  • @fidenciogomez7508
    @fidenciogomez7508 Год назад

    Have you been to San Antonio or ever travel to San Antonio Texas

  • @ChristopherHovis
    @ChristopherHovis Год назад

    Good video keep it up ❤

  • @catherinewindow6157
    @catherinewindow6157 Год назад

    Looks like a cool place