Pool & garden
The Country Club
A historic Bywater social club: pool, garden, Creole plates, and a drag brunch that sells out. The crowd is local, the light in the garden is the point.
Bywater$$
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Rooftops & pools
One search across restaurants, nightlife, parks, the season, and the accounts worth following. The menus above are the short version. Nothing here is a paid placement.
13 places
Rooftop
Hot Tin
The rooftop on the Pontchartrain Hotel. Skyline, river breeze, St. Charles streetcars crawling under you. One of the city's true roofs.
Garden District$$$
Rooftop pool
The Pool Club at Virgin Hotels
Thirteenth-floor pool and bar. Cabana seating, DJs, golden hour. The pool itself is guests and day-pass; the bar is the easy yes.
Warehouse District$$$
Rooftop pool
Above the Grid at NOPSI
Rooftop pool and cocktails on the NOPSI Hotel. A quieter skyline than the clubbier roofs, still very much a night out.
CBD$$$
Rooftop pool
High Five at The Barnett
The old Ace Hotel roof, now High Five on The Barnett. Pool, cabanas, fire, and a weeknight that is actually relaxed.
Warehouse District$$$
Hotel
Virgin Hotels New Orleans
Chambers instead of rooms, Commons Club for lobby music and dinner, and The Pool Club on the 13th floor. The rooftop day pass means you can use the pool even if you sleep elsewhere.
Warehouse District$$$
Hotel
Hotel Saint Vincent
A former orphanage turned design hotel with a pool, on lower Magazine. Shopping out the door, downtown a cheap rideshare away.
Lower Garden District$$$$
Hotel
The Drifter
Retro motel energy, a pool, and a fairer rate than the Quarter. You are near City Park and not in the middle of a pedestrian mall.
Mid-City$$
Hotel
Four Seasons
River, spa, Chandelier Bar, and the most polished lobby downtown. A splurge with a view of the water you came all this way to see.
Riverfront$$$$
Hotel
NOPSI Hotel
A downtown hotel with Above the Grid, the rooftop pool, on the roof. About 16.8k followers. Creole dinner is downstairs at Public Service, and the page is posting $5 before 5: gumbo, a boudin link, a crawfish cake, debris. Baronne puts you a short walk from the Quarter.
CBD$$$
Hotel
The Barnett
The former Ace. High Five is the rooftop pool. The building still draws the same downtown crowd under a new name.
Warehouse District$$$
Hotel
Omni Royal Orleans
In the Quarter, not on Bourbon. A roof with a view, a lobby that works as a base, and the ability to walk home from almost anything you did downtown.
French Quarter$$$
Hotel
The Pontchartrain
The hotel under Hot Tin. You sleep, you take the elevator, you are at the rooftop. St. Charles does the rest.
Garden District$$$