A Mardi Gras overlay has returned to a CityWalk venue, transforming the Red Coconut Club into the Cursed Coconut Club for the season. This year, the club is dedicated to “Salon Du Samedi” with a “Cryptids, Spirits, Dive Bar” theme, leaning into New Orleans and Bayou culture.

Hours & Location

The Red Coconut Club is a mid-century tiki-style venue on the upper level of Universal CityWalk Orlando, next to Bob Marley – A Tribute to Freedom. It typically receives holiday makeovers for Mardi Gras (Cursed Coconut Club), Halloween (Dead Coconut Club), and Christmas (Green & Red Coconut Club).

The Cursed Coconut Club’s operating hours are:

• Wednesdays, Thursdays, & Sundays: 5 p.m. – 12 a.m. 
• Fridays & Saturdays – 5 p.m. – 1 a.m.

Exterior

The banners advertise “Salon Du Samedi” with “Cryptids, Spirits, Dive Bar”. A skull with a top hat is pictured alongside a Bigfoot and a potion bottle. Baron Samedi is a major Lwa spirit of Haitian Vodou sometimes associated with Mardi Gras.

The panels feature spray-painted designs, including skeletons, aliens, and cryptids. A faux brick wall in front of the club is topped with wrought iron.

The corrugated paneling continues on the other side of the balcony. There are more skulls, coffins, and a gravestone.

Main Floor

The 2025 Tribute Store was centered around Cyrus T. Pavo’s Legends of the Bayou Museum with a focus on myths, cryptids, and more. This year’s Cursed Coconut Club calls back to that theming. A Legends of the Bayou welcomes sign welcomes guests and hints to what they will find in the club.

Tombstones and cryptids decorate the first floor.

Some of the tombstones have been decorated with Mardi Gras beads and other items that coordinate with the dearly departed.

The “Salon Du Samedi” bar area is located on the first floor, aligning with the Haitian Vodou sometimes associated with Mardi Gras and bayou area of New Orleans.

The seating area surrounding the bar resembles a Vodou tavern with dark red drapes and burning candles decorating the area.

Behind the bar are framed skulls, artifacts, and ingredients that might be used to summon spirits from beyond.

Devilish decor is displayed nearby with skulls, books, and ingredients stored in a bookshelf.

Candles sit on some of the tables leading into the dance floor area.

The dance floor resembled a bayou with blue lights reflecting off the green foliage to look like murky water.

The DJ booth looks like an old shack along the bayou covered with buoys and moss. Spanish moss also hangs from the ceiling as aquatic vegetation and trees “grow” from places along the walls.

Maps, signage, and warning signs are posted.

The Cursed Coconut Club sign describes the swap and surrounding areas:

Since the earliest peoples settled here, many have believed this swamp and the surrounding area to house a vast array of creatures and cryptids, inspiring folklore to present day. Locals and tourists alike report more “sightings” in this swamp than in any other region within the state of Louisiana; the Rougarou, the Honey Island Swamp Monster, Feu-Follet, Letiche, and Lutin are only some of the unusual figures said to linger under the cover of its mist. Some legends even state that the mythical Papa Ghede himself, the Baron Samedi, dwells incarnate somewhere amongst these trees, not only protecting the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead, but keeping and celebrating the tales of these phenomena that they may exist forever, if only remembered in the liminal space of story.

Another “dock” and seating area is decorated to fit with the overall design.

Mausoleum Crypts and vines line the walls behind the seating areas just next to the stairs.

Upstairs, another bar called Louis’ Last Call serves cold beer and cocktails in a “downtown” New Orleans-style bar.

Stairway

Heading up the stairs, shop signs and windows mimic walking down a New Orleans street.

A jazz club is among those businesses advertised. No parking and tow away signs lead guests into the main area.

Second Floor

An “Authentic Jazz” club that serves up cajun food is advertised walking up to the bar area. The doorway for the jazz club has hour and a closed sign.

Behind a neon smiley face, advertisements for bayou bands and other attractions line one wall.

Another wall has even more advertisements with a sign the reads “Spirits this Way” pointing to the bar, with “Living Word” pointing the other. Near the restrooms, a large butterfly photo-op reads “Legendary” above the bloodied wings, which appear pinned to the wall.

Other neon signs and advertisements take up most of the all space.

Mardi Gras decor hangs from the ceiling and lines the walls of the bar’s main seating area.

The bar is themed to be “Louis’ Last Call,” a Bourbon Street-style dive bar.

The deer on the wall wears beads and a chalk board sign list some drinks and “Happy Mardi Gras.”

The last of the decor included a “Louis’ Last Call” neon sign, a “Dead End” road sign, and several ads for beer and “local” events.

Menu

The bars serves the following cocktails and beers:

Cocktails

• Tropical Detonator – Montymusk overproof rum, Three Olives vodka, New Amsterdam gin, Midori, pineapple juice
  • Krew Cup: $16.00
  • Krew Refill: $13.00
  • 16 oz Single Serve: $14.00

• Who Dat? – Old Forester bourbon, lime juice, orange juice, Angostura bitters, Coca-Cola
  • Krew Cup: $16.00
  • Krew Refill: $13.00
  • 16 oz Single Serve: $14.00

• The Dirty Bird – 360 Vodka Madagascar Vanilla, 360 Vodka Sorrento, bing cherry, 360 Vodka grapefruit, lemon, lime juice, grapefruit syrup, Sprite
  • Krew Cup: $16.00
  • Krew Refill: $13.00
  • 16 oz Single Serve: $14.00

• Sunset on the Fly Mocktail – Orange juice, pineapple juice, lemon juice, grenadine
  • $9.00

• Shot & A Beer – Choice of liquor shot (1.25 oz) with a canned Miller Lite
  • Cuervo Tradicional blanco tequila
  • Fireball
  • Jameson Irish whiskey
  • Fernet-Branca
    • Single Serve – $20

Canned Beverages

• Miller Lite
• Abita Andygator
• Modelo
• NÜTRL
• Athletic Brewing Co. Upside Dawn Golden NA
• High Noon
• Monster Voodoo Grape

To see all the details, watch our video walkthrough:

The 2026 Mardi Gras: International Flavors of Carnaval festival runs from February 7 through April 4.

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