Hookah Lounges in Cedar Rapids

Cedar Rapids has exactly one hookah venue, and it is worth knowing what kind it is before you go. The HaZy HideAway Vape and Hookah at 49 Kirkwood Court SW, in the commercial stretch near Kirkwood Community College on the south-west side, is a vape shop with a hookah bar attached rather than a lounge in the evening-out sense. It is rated 4.6 across 96 reviews, opens at 11 AM every day and closes at 9 PM, so it suits an afternoon or early-evening session rather than a late night. That makes it the most reliable hookah between Des Moines, which has no listed venue at all, and the Quad Cities, where Habano Hookah Lounge covers downtown Davenport. Iowa City, twenty-five minutes south, has nothing listed either, so HaZy HideAway draws from the university as well as the city. The reason the map is so sparse is Iowa's Smokefree Air Act, which has banned smoking in almost every enclosed public place since 2008. Iowa's tobacco purchase age has been 21 since July 2020.

A HaZy HideAway session is a daytime or early-evening one, and the shop side of the business means the flavour range is wider than most lounges: ask what is open rather than working from a printed menu. Mint, double apple and grape are the safe first picks, a bowl runs 45 to 60 minutes, coal service is included and tipping the attendant is customary. Because it closes at 9 PM, arrive by 7 to get a full session in. The same counter sells tobacco, pipes and coals for sessions at home, which is how most of eastern Iowa's hookah gets smoked.