The Best Rooftop Bars in Austin

Last updated August 2026

I drive fifteen people through downtown Austin for a living, and the question I get more than any other — more than "where's the best taco," more than "can we bring tequila" (no) — is some version of this: where do we go after, somewhere with a view?

So I started keeping notes. Which rooftops actually let you upstairs without a hotel key. Which ones charge $19 for a mediocre margarita. Which ones look incredible in photos and feel like a hotel lobby with the roof torn off. Which ones are worth walking up a set of stairs at 6th and Trinity for.

This is that list — everything verified open as of August 2026, with the parts most guides leave out: the pool rules, the real prices, the reservation traps, and the honest "this one isn't worth it unless" caveats.

The short version

Nine rooftops, one sentence each. If you read nothing else:

• Highest view in the city? Azul at the Westin — twenty floors up, and nothing else downtown is close.
• Best sunset, hands down? P6 at The LINE — it faces Lady Bird Lake, so the sun sets into your view instead of behind you, and the Congress bridge bats fly out under you.
• Best for a date? Nido at The Loren — you're across the water looking at the skyline instead of standing in it, which is the better photo and the better conversation.
• Best for a group of ten or more? Upstairs at Caroline — walk-ins only, cornhole and giant Jenga, and no host trying to split your party across three tables.
• Best without a reservation, dressed however you're dressed? El Cockfight on East 5th — open till 2am, happy hour margaritas around $6, and a rooftop you can walk onto.
• Best live music? Geraldine's at Hotel Van Zandt — nightly, real bands, fourth floor over Rainey.
• Best sleeper pick? Limestone on the 16th floor of the Cambria — a private elevator, three hours of comped valet, and about a third of the crowd it deserves. Thursday to Saturday only.

And the correction that matters most in 2026: if a guide sends you to Wax Myrtle's, close the tab. It shut down at the end of 2023. That fourth-floor space at the Thompson is now Arriba Abajo, and it's a different animal — Oaxacan food, cabanas, a much calmer room.

Quick picks

If you want	Go here	Why
The best skyline view	Azul Rooftop	20th floor of the Westin — the highest rooftop bar downtown
The best sunset	P6	Faces west over Lady Bird Lake; bats fly out below you
A date that goes well	Nido	Quiet, across the lake, the skyline as the backdrop
A group of 10–20	Upstairs at Caroline	No reservations, lawn games, absorbs a crowd
To just walk in, right now	El Cockfight	Open till 2am daily, cheap happy hour, no gatekeeping
Live music with the view	Geraldine's	Music seven nights, Rainey Street below
To actually swim	Rules & Regs (Mon–Thu)	The one big hotel pool that lets non-guests in on weekdays
A bachelorette pre-game	Arriba Abajo	Cabanas, all-day hours, two happy hours, big-group friendly

The comparison table

Everything side by side. Hours are what the venues published as of August 2026 — rooftops in this town change hours seasonally and close for private buyouts constantly, so sanity-check the day you go.

Cocktail ranges are what I've paid and what current menus show; happy-hour figures are the venues' own published specials. Assume tax and 20% on top, and assume a hotel rooftop will find a way to add a few dollars you weren't expecting.

What a rooftop drink actually costs in Austin

Here's the number nobody puts in a listicle: a normal cocktail at a normal Austin hotel rooftop runs $15 to $18. Not a specialty pour. Not a double. A tequila-and-citrus drink in a rocks glass.

The floor is around $12 — that's El Cockfight and Upstairs at Caroline territory, both of which are non-hotel rooftops, which is not a coincidence. The ceiling is around $25, which is where Geraldine's tops out on its most involved builds. Nido sits in the low twenties because The Loren is a genuinely luxury hotel and prices accordingly.

So the math on a two-person rooftop stop, honestly: two drinks each plus tax and tip is $75 to $90 at a hotel rooftop, and roughly half that at El Cockfight during happy hour. For a group of ten that's a $400 round. It's worth knowing before somebody offers to buy for the table.

Sunset timing, done properly

Most people arrive at a rooftop at sunset. That's the mistake. The light you want — the twenty minutes where the glass towers go orange and the sky behind them goes pink — starts about forty minutes before the sun actually drops and keeps going for fifteen minutes after. If you walk in at sunset o'clock, you spend the good part of it waiting for a table.

Arrive ninety minutes before sunset. That's the whole tip. You'll get a rail seat, you'll catch happy hour, and you'll be settled when the light turns.

Austin sunset times swing by more than three hours across the year, which catches visitors out constantly. Mid-month, roughly:

Which direction matters more than which floor. Austin's skyline runs along the north bank of Lady Bird Lake, and the sun sets over the Hill Country to the west. That gives you two genuinely different experiences:

• Looking west over water — P6 and, from further out, Nido. You get sun, water, and silhouetted towers in one frame. This is the postcard.
• Standing inside the skyline — Azul, Limestone, Zanzibar. The sun disappears behind buildings earlier, but you get the thing water-view rooftops can't give you: lit windows at eye level, all around you, after dark. Go here at 9pm, not 7pm.

Pool access, decoded — who can actually get in

This is where visitors lose the most money and the most afternoon. Austin has beautiful rooftop pools. You are, in most cases, not invited into them.

The three tiers, plainly:

1. Hotel guest. You're in. Bring the room key.
2. ResortPass day pass or booked cabana. The legitimate non-guest route. At the Westin, day passes start around $40 per person, dual passes around $60, an Azul cabana for up to eight from about $200, and the "super cabana" for up to sixteen from about $350 — with pool and rooftop access running roughly noon to 6pm. Similar structures exist at the JW Marriott (Edge), The Otis (Otopia) and Hotel Van Zandt.
3. Bar guest. You can drink, eat, and stand at the rail. You cannot get in the water. Every rooftop on this list operates this way by default.

Two useful exceptions worth planning around:

• Rules & Regs at the Fairmont opens its seventh-floor pool to non-hotel guests Monday through Thursday year-round. Weekends are registered guests only, no exceptions. If you want to actually swim on a rooftop without buying a pass, Tuesday afternoon at the Fairmont is the answer. The bar itself runs Wednesday to Saturday, 5–11pm, with happy hour the first hour.
• La Piscina at the Austin Proper is open to everyone for lunch, dinner and weekend brunch on the fifth-floor pool deck — the water stays guests-only, but the pool bar opens to the public on weekend evenings, roughly 6–10pm. It's the closest you'll get to the pool-club feeling without a pass, and it's a genuinely pretty room.

1. Azul Rooftop — the highest view in Austin

If the whole point of your night is height, this is the one. Twenty floors up on the east edge of the entertainment district, Azul is the tallest rooftop bar downtown, and it doesn't feel like a hotel pool deck with a bar tacked on — it feels like a lookout. You can see the Capitol dome, the whole run of towers down to the lake, and on a clear evening the hills west of town.

The trade-off is that you're standing in the skyline rather than across from it, so the actual sunset gets eaten by buildings earlier than you'd expect. Come here for the after-dark version. Nine o'clock, lit windows in every direction, is when this place justifies itself.

It's 21-and-up at night, it runs weekday happy hour specials in the $11 range, and it hosts a fair number of DJ and pool-party events — check the calendar if you want either the party or specifically to avoid it. Two consistent complaints in the reviews, and I'll pass them along honestly: drinks are priced like the view and the elevator situation on a busy Saturday can eat fifteen minutes.

Verdict: The best pure view in the city, and the best group-cabana value if you plan ahead. Go after dark rather than at sunset, and go on a weekday if you don't want the party-deck version.

2. P6 at The LINE — best sunset, and the bats

P6 is built on top of a converted parking garage, which is the most Austin sentence in this guide and also completely irrelevant once you're up there. It faces south and west over Lady Bird Lake, which means the sun sets across open water directly in your sightline, with the South Congress skyline and the green wall of Zilker behind it.

It's the best sunset in town from a bar stool. It is also, from March to November, the best place to watch the Congress bridge bats with a drink in your hand instead of shoulder-to-shoulder with three hundred people on the sidewalk.

The food is Mediterranean shared plates — genuinely good, not hotel-bar filler — and the weekend brunch is a quieter way to see the same view for less money. Two logistics to know: parties over twelve get pushed into private-room territory with a serious minimum, and reservations for prime sunset slots go early in the week. Book it.

Verdict: If you only do one rooftop in Austin and you care about the view rather than the party, make it this one — booked, at ninety minutes before sunset, in bat season.

3. Nido at The Loren — the date rooftop

Everyone else on this list puts you inside downtown. Nido puts you across the water on the south bank, eight floors up, looking back at the whole thing. It's the difference between being in the photo and taking the photo, and for a date it's not close — the skyline reads as a skyline from here.

You take a glass elevator up from the lobby. The room is modern-American with Hill Country leanings, the wine list is serious, and the noise level is a conversation, not a shout. That's the real argument for Nido: it's the only rooftop in Austin where you can hear the person across the table on a Friday night.

It is also the most expensive thing here. Cocktails run into the low twenties, dinner is a real dinner bill, and the crowd skews older and better-dressed than Rainey. If that's not your night, it's genuinely not your night — go to Caroline instead and have more fun for a third of the money.

Verdict: The date answer, the anniversary answer, and the take-your-parents answer. For a bachelorette party of fourteen it's the wrong room and everyone will feel it.

4. Limestone Rooftop — the sleeper on the 16th floor

This is the one I send people to when they want a view but don't want a scene. Sixteen floors up on the east side of downtown, with floor-to-ceiling glass indoors and an outdoor terrace, Limestone looks out over Rainey Street, the interstate, and the towers behind it — and on most Thursday nights it's a fraction as busy as it deserves to be.

Three practical things make it punch above its reputation. There's a dedicated elevator so you're not riding up with luggage carts. The valet is comped for three hours, which in downtown Austin is worth about $30 and removes the single most annoying part of a rooftop night. And because it has real interior space with glass walls, it's the rooftop that still works in February and in a thunderstorm.

The catch is the calendar: Thursday through Saturday only. If you're in town Sunday through Wednesday, this one doesn't exist for you. The kitchen runs a globally-inspired menu — Mediterranean, Lebanese, Turkish, Southeast Asian threads — which is more ambitious than a rooftop needs to be, and mostly lands.

Verdict: My pick for the best walk-in rooftop in Austin on a Thursday. Show up at 5:30 for happy hour, take the terrace, and thank me about an hour later.

5. Upstairs at Caroline — the group rooftop

Caroline's upstairs deck calls itself an urban backyard party and that's exactly right. It's low, it's loud, it's open air, and instead of a skyline panorama you get the thing a group of twelve actually wants: room to stand, games to play, and no host telling you the wait is ninety minutes.

The view is modest — you're second level, so you're looking down Congress at the Capitol rather than over the city — and I'd never send a couple here for a romantic evening. But for a birthday group, a bachelor party pre-game, a work crew that just escaped a conference at the Convention Center, or a Saturday that starts at noon and evolves, it's the most functional rooftop downtown.

No reservations, ever. That's the whole model, and it cuts both ways: you can't lock in a spot, but you also can't get turned away for not having one. Arrive before 6pm on a weekend and you'll get a table. Arrive at 9pm and you'll be standing.

Verdict: The best rooftop in Austin for ten or more people, and the one I recommend most often to groups riding with us. Come early, claim a corner, play cornhole.

6. El Cockfight — the honest answer for a Tuesday

Not every rooftop night needs to cost eighty dollars and start with an OpenTable notification. El Cockfight is two floors of mezcal and tequila on East 5th, with a rooftop patio, a happy hour that runs into the evening, and a 2am close — which makes it the only real rooftop on this list that's still serving when the rest of downtown is peaking.

The drinks are better than the price suggests. Agave-forward, actually built rather than poured from a gun, and the bar staff know the mezcal list. There's no dress code, no bottle service pressure, and no elevator queue. You walk up the stairs.

Manage expectations on the view: you're two stories up in the middle of the Warehouse District, so this is street-level energy with air, not a panorama. That's exactly why it works after a night that's already started.

Verdict: The rooftop I'd actually go to on my own night off. Best value in downtown Austin, and the right last stop rather than the right first one.

7. Geraldine's — live music with the elevation

Geraldine's is the rooftop that remembers it's in Austin. Four floors above Rainey, with an outdoor deck over the pool and a view down to Lady Bird Lake, and live music every single night — not a DJ, not a playlist, actual players. Sunday jazz and soul is the standing local recommendation and it's earned.

The food program is modern and Mexican-leaning and the room is handsome in that specific Kimpton way. The cocktails are the most expensive per-drink on this list at the top end — the elaborate ones push toward $25 — which is the honest cost of hearing a good band without a cover.

The Rainey Street position is the double-edged part. It's the best-located rooftop for a night that continues, since you're at the top of the bar strip and the whole neighborhood is downstairs. It's also the loudest neighborhood downtown after 10pm, so if you want the quiet version, come at 5pm for happy hour and the last of the daylight.

Verdict: The best rooftop in Austin for people who came here for the music. Go on a Sunday evening for jazz and you'll understand why locals keep it on the list.

8. Arriba Abajo — the one that replaced Wax Myrtle's

Wax Myrtle's closed at the end of 2023 and the internet has never fully caught up. What's there now is Arriba Abajo — a Oaxacan and Yucatán-inspired rooftop cantina from chef Marc Marrone, spread across an indoor dining room and a pool-deck patio four floors above San Jacinto.

It's a softer room than the one it replaced. Less nightclub, more all-day cantina: horchata French toast at brunch, chilaquiles enmoladas, mole and citrus and a lot of mezcal. The cabana seating and the sheer number of hours it's open — eleven in the morning to eleven at night on a weekday — make it the most flexible rooftop downtown for a group that hasn't decided what kind of night it's having.

The two happy hours are the underrated feature. If you've missed the 4–6pm window, the patio bar runs a reverse happy hour from 7–9pm nightly, which is unusual in this town and worth planning around.

Verdict: The best all-day rooftop downtown and a strong bachelorette-brunch pick. Just don't come expecting the old Wax Myrtle's energy — that bar is gone.

9. Zanzibar — tiki drinks and a 2pm happy hour

Seven floors up on Cesar Chavez, Zanzibar is a genuinely lush tropical terrace — heavy planting, a pool oasis, modern tiki drinks that are more considered than the format usually gets. It reads as an escape from downtown while being about ninety seconds from the Convention Center.

The reason it earns a slot here is that 2–5pm weekday happy hour. Ten-dollar frozens and margaritas on a downtown rooftop in the middle of a Tuesday afternoon is close to unbeatable in Austin, and that window is dead quiet compared to the evening.

The view is fine rather than spectacular — you're mid-height, looking across the lake and up into the towers. Come for the drinks and the plants, not the panorama.

Verdict: The best weekday-afternoon rooftop in Austin. Land there at 2pm, order a frozen, and let the rest of the day figure itself out.

Six more worth knowing

Not full profiles, but each of these is the right answer for a specific night:

The tourist-trap warning

I'll be blunt, because this is the part I actually get asked about at the meet point.

A lot of Austin "rooftop bars" are hotel amenities that discovered Instagram. The tell is easy: if the venue's own website leads with cabana photos rather than a drink list, you are paying view rent. That's a fair trade at Azul, where the view is genuinely the best in the city. It's a bad trade at a fourth-floor deck charging $19 for a well margarita because there's a pool in the background of your photo.

The specific traps, in order:

• The pool you can't get in. Covered above. It costs people an afternoon almost every weekend.
• The 45-minute elevator on a Saturday. Real at the taller hotels between 8 and 10pm. If there's a line for the elevator, there's no seat upstairs either.
• The private buyout you find out about at the door. Rooftops are the most-booked private event spaces in this city. Call before you drive. Every single one of these venues will tell you over the phone if they're closed for a wedding.
• The rooftop that's really a third floor over 6th Street. Iron Cactus at 6th and Trinity has a legitimately fun third-floor patio and it's been there since a 1995 remodel — it's a fine place to put twelve people and drink a margarita. Just know you're getting a view of 6th Street, not of Austin. Same honest note for Twins on Lavaca: it's a real nightclub with a rooftop lounge attached, Thursday to Saturday until 2am, and it's a great time if EDM and VIP tables are the plan. It is not a sunset cocktail.
• The $19 drink you didn't need. If the view is the product, buy one and move. Two rooftops at one drink each beats one rooftop at four drinks each — cheaper, better photos, better night.

My honest framing: pretty view, $19 cocktails, 45-minute line — it's worth it exactly once per trip, at the right rooftop, timed to the light. Everything after that, go somewhere with a bartender who wants to talk to you.

Insider tips locals actually use

• Call before you go. Every time. Rooftops get bought out for weddings, corporate parties and SXSW activations more than any other kind of bar in Austin. A thirty-second phone call saves a wasted rideshare.
• Ninety minutes before sunset is the arrival time. Not sunset. You want to be seated when the light turns, not queuing for the elevator.
• Sunday is the local's rooftop night. Convention crowds have flown out, Saturday's crews are recovering, and you can walk into places that were impossible eighteen hours earlier. Geraldine's Sunday jazz is the specific play.
• Book the cabana, not the table. For six or more people, a cabana at a hotel rooftop often costs less per head than the drinks you'd buy standing up — and it comes with pool access and shade.
• Take the valet at the ones that comp it. Limestone gives you three hours free; P6 caps validation around $13 for three hours. Downtown surface lots will happily charge you $40 on an event night.
• Check for a private elevator. Limestone has one. It's the difference between walking in and standing in a lobby with four families and a luggage cart.
• Dress code is mostly a myth — with two exceptions. Nido expects smart casual and the nightclub rooftops enforce whatever they feel like at the door. Everywhere else, Austin is Austin. Shorts are fine. Athletic sandals and a bachelor-party jersey may not be.
• Summer means shade, not sunset. In July and August a west-facing terrace at 6pm is 100°F of direct sun. Sit inside or under cover, then move to the rail when the sun drops. Every good rooftop in this town has a shaded half — ask for it.
• Two rooftops, one drink each. The best rooftop night I've had in Austin was Limestone at 5:30 and El Cockfight at 8. Different views, different price points, one Uber between them.

Mistakes to avoid

• Packing swimsuits for a rooftop bar. Unless you booked a ResortPass or a cabana, or you're a hotel guest, you're not swimming. This is the number one visitor error in Austin rooftop-land.
• Showing up with fourteen people and no plan. P6 caps standard reservations at twelve. Nido isn't built for it. Go to Upstairs at Caroline, book a cabana, or split into two groups on purpose.
• Trusting a 2023 list. Wax Myrtle's has been closed since the end of 2023 and still shows up on "best rooftops" roundups. Verify the venue is open this week, not that it was open two years ago.
• Going Sunday through Wednesday and expecting everywhere to be open. Limestone runs Thursday to Saturday. Rules & Regs runs Wednesday to Saturday. Amaya is closed Monday and Tuesday. Coconut Club is closed Monday and Tuesday. Early-week visitors need Zanzibar, Arriba Abajo, Caroline, El Cockfight or Azul.
• Arriving at 8pm in December wondering where the sunset went. It went at 5:15. Winter rooftop plans start in the afternoon.
• Standing on the Congress bridge sidewalk with a group of twelve for the bats. It's crowded, it's hot, and half your crew won't see anything. Buy a drink at P6 and watch it from above.
• Driving between rooftops after three rounds. Downtown Austin parking is expensive, the enforcement is real, and this is exactly the trip people get wrong. Plan your transport before the first drink, not after the fourth.

Who each one is best for

• First-time visitor with one rooftop night: P6 at sunset, then walk to Rainey.
• Couple on a date: Nido terrace lounge, drinks only.
• Bachelorette party: Arriba Abajo for brunch, an Azul cabana for the afternoon.
• Bachelor party: Upstairs at Caroline early, El Cockfight late.
• Birthday group of 10–20: Caroline, or a cabana anywhere with a pool deck.
• Corporate crew / client dinner: Limestone Thursday, or Nido if the budget is real.
• Music-first traveler: Geraldine's, any night.
• Budget night out: El Cockfight happy hour, then Caroline.
• People who genuinely want to swim: Rules & Regs on a weekday, or buy the day pass.

Rooftops and a party bike: before the ride or after?

I get asked this constantly, so here's my actual answer after seven years of driving these routes.

Rooftop first, then ride — if you want photos. Golden hour is when your group looks best and nobody has spilled anything yet. Do a rooftop drink ninety minutes before sunset, get the skyline shot everyone's going to post, then meet us and roll into the night with the light behind you. This is what I'd do for a bachelorette party or a birthday where the pictures matter.

Ride first, then rooftop — if you want the night to peak late. A ride ends warm, loud and social, and that's exactly the energy that makes a rooftop fun. El Cockfight until 2am, Caroline until midnight, Azul until midnight on a Friday or Saturday — all of those absorb a group that's already having a good time.

What doesn't work: a big group trying to get from a rooftop on Cesar Chavez to a bar on Rainey to another rooftop on Congress in three separate rideshares, on a Saturday, in surge pricing. That's the part of the night that falls apart, every time. It's also the exact gap we exist to fill.

Austin Bar Bike is a 15-seat, fully-electric, BYOB party bike, and I drive it myself — about two hours and fifteen minutes through downtown with two or three bar stops across 6th Street, West 6th and Rainey. Bring your own cans (no glass, no liquor), riders 18+, drinking 21+. We meet at 1108 Rose St, where street parking is easy (metered, always spots), which is its own small miracle downtown. The whole bike starts at $275 Monday through Thursday and $375 Friday through Sunday for up to fifteen people — roughly the cost of two rounds at a hotel rooftop, for the entire evening.

Planning a whole day? Our guide to things to do in downtown Austin covers the hours around the rooftop, and the best BBQ in Austin handles lunch. If you're pricing out a group, the drink calculator will tell you how many cans to actually buy.

Frequently asked questions

What is the highest rooftop bar in Austin?

Azul Rooftop, on the 20th floor of The Westin Austin Downtown at 310 E 5th Street. Nothing else downtown is close — the next tallest on this list is Limestone at the Cambria on the 16th floor, then Amaya on the 12th floor of the Paseo tower on Rainey Street.

Can non-hotel guests use Austin's rooftop pools?

Usually only by buying a day pass or a cabana through ResortPass. At The Westin, day passes start around $40 per person and cabanas from about $200 for up to eight. The main exception is Rules & Regs at the Fairmont, which opens its rooftop pool to non-guests Monday through Thursday year-round — weekends are registered hotel guests only. La Piscina at the Austin Proper opens its pool bar to the public on weekend evenings, but the water itself stays guests-only.

What time should I get to a rooftop bar for sunset in Austin?

About ninety minutes before sunset. Austin's sunset ranges from roughly 5:15pm in mid-December to about 8:28pm in mid-June, so the right arrival time changes dramatically by season — around 6:55pm in June and July, 6:25pm in August, 4:55pm in October, and 3:45pm in December. Arriving ninety minutes early gets you a rail seat, happy hour pricing, and the full run of the light.

How much does a cocktail cost at an Austin rooftop bar?

Expect $15 to $18 at a typical hotel rooftop, $12 to $15 at non-hotel rooftops like El Cockfight and Upstairs at Caroline, and up to about $25 for the most elaborate builds at places like Geraldine's and Nido. Happy hour cuts that substantially — Zanzibar runs $10 frozens and margaritas from 2 to 5pm on weekdays, and El Cockfight does roughly $6 margaritas and $9 cocktails during its afternoon window.

Which Austin rooftop is best for a big group?

Upstairs at Caroline on Congress Avenue. It takes no reservations at all, which means no group-size gatekeeping, and it's built like a backyard with cornhole, giant Jenga and foosball. For groups that want something more polished, book a cabana at Azul or Arriba Abajo — a cabana for eight often costs less per person than the drinks you'd buy standing up.

Do Austin rooftop bars have a dress code?

Mostly no. Austin is a casual city and shorts are fine at nearly every rooftop on this list. The exceptions are Nido at The Loren, which expects smart casual, and nightclub-style rooftops like Twins, where the door has discretion. Athletic sandals and matching party jerseys are the two things most likely to get a second look.

Is Wax Myrtle's still open?

No. Wax Myrtle's closed at the end of 2023. That fourth-floor space at the Thompson Austin, 506 San Jacinto Blvd, is now Arriba Abajo Rooftop Cantina — a Oaxacan and Yucatán-inspired restaurant and bar that opened in 2024 with a very different, more all-day feel.

Where can you watch the Congress bridge bats from a rooftop?

P6 on the sixth floor of The LINE Austin, at 111 E Cesar Chavez, is the best bar view of the bat emergence. The bats fly from roughly mid-March through early November, typically starting about twenty minutes after sunset, and late July through August is the biggest show of the year.

Which Austin rooftop bars are open on a Monday or Tuesday?

Zanzibar, Arriba Abajo, Upstairs at Caroline, El Cockfight, Geraldine's, Azul, Nido, La Piscina and Edge all operate early in the week. Limestone (Thu–Sat), Rules & Regs (Wed–Sat), Amaya (Wed–Sun), Coconut Club (Wed–Sun) and Twins (Thu–Sun) do not.

Should we do a rooftop before or after a party bike ride?

Before, if you want the photos — golden hour is when the group looks best. After, if you want the night to peak late, since a ride ends with everyone warmed up and social. The one thing to avoid is trying to shuttle a group of twelve between several rooftops in separate rideshares on a Saturday night; that's where the evening usually falls apart.