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The hotel is still there. It may have been the last of the Kona Kai locations in the country when Marriott converted it to an Italian restaurant. DC also had a Trader Vic's, which closed in 1995. After a long Tiki drought, Tiki bars have returned to the DC area, including one in Bethesda - just minutes from the old Kona Kai. But sadly, none with the size and the grandeur of the places like Trader Vic's and Kona Kai.

I have no idea where it went...I had forgotten all about it!  It was a fun place!

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