Get a 3-foot long daiquiri at new poolside venue opening soon at Biloxi casino resort

A colorful venue operating at Caesars resorts in Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe will make its debut Memorial Day Weekend at Harrah’s Gulf Coast.

The Biloxi location will be the sixth Purple Zebra Daiquiri Bar at Caesars Entertainment, which now has 54 properties throughout the United States, said Jonathan Jones, general manager of Harrah’s Gulf Coast.

“It’s a brand that started at the LINQ Hotel in Las Vegas and really took off from there,” he said. It’s also a brand that says party.

“And it’s right off the pool,” Jones said. “We couldn’t have picked a better location.”

Purple Zebra is a walk-up bar with glass doors overlooking the swimming pool. It also has an indoor entrance just off the lobby.

Borrowing from the look and feel of New Orleans, coolers behind the bar swirl eight colorful choices of daiquiris, including wild strawberry, pina colada, hurricane, margarita and blue lagoon.

Drinks can be customized by blending flavors and served virgin or with a splash of alcohol.

Premium liquor is an additional $2.99 and super premium options are $4.99 per drink.

The name Purple Zebra comes from an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel “This Side of Paradise” and is designed as a call to adventure.

“We’re in a fun market down here on the Coast, so that was a perfect fit for us,” Jones said of the brand. Harrah’s is going to play up the fun by serving daiquiris by the yard — in a yard-long plastic souvenir cup that can be sipped around the pool, on the deck overlooking the pool or inside the resort.

Cocktail service and food are available at the loungers or cabanas that look out toward the Gulf and Deer Island.

The heated pool and hot tub are open to the public. Admission all day Monday through Friday is $19.99 and on the weekends it’s $24.99.

Live blackjack tables just opened poolside at Harrah’s Gulf Coast on weekends as another new amenity, Jones said, and the gift shop moved next to the elevators, where guests can pick up snacks, lottery tickets and souvenirs.

“In order to open the Purple Zebra, we did have to relocate our gift shop and so we took the opportunity to rebrand that as well,” Jones said. “So now it’s the Lucky Duck,” he said.

Dale Partners Architects, the Biloxi firm that designed Caesars Sportsbook and 406 Club inside Harrah’s Gulf Coast, aided in the design of Purple Zebra. Orocon Construction, another Biloxi firm, is building the new bar.

Jones said more new amenities are on the way to Harrah’s for regular customers and the new people who discovered the Coast during the coronavirus.

The Blind Tiger restaurant and bar on the Mississippi Sound also connects to the casino resort.