To make the last evening of 2024 a Melbourne New Year's Eve to remember, we would urge everyone to look upwards, to the great selection of Melbourne rooftop bars.
A place where the festive season and prime rooftop season collide, it's no wonder that NYE and Melbourne rooftops is a match made in heaven. Enjoy breezy drinks, sky-high vibes, and watch the 2024 fireworks over Melbourne, as you say cheers and welcome to 2025 under the stars.
The hip rooftop lounge on top of the designer hotel QT Melbourne comes surrounded with uninterrupted views of Melbourne’s city skyline.
Located right in the heart of the city, the indoor/outdoor Rooftop at QT blends the sophisticated with the relaxed, creating a perfect setting for both after work cocktails and more vibrant and stylish rooftop party nights.
The most vibrant night of the year is set top be New Year's Eve, when the Rooftop at QT invites you to ring in 2025 with one epic rooftop party, high above the city’s sparkling skyline.
Packed with bottomless drinks, live band, DJ, and saxophonist creating a great party atmosphere, and one of best views over the Melbourne fireworks, the evening will also include a tasty selection of food. From a spread of luxe canapés and freshly shucked oysters, to a sizzling live rotisserie and a sinful late-night dessert station.
Tickets are available as General Admission and VIP Booth Package or VVIP Balcony Package, and you can get yours right here.
ROOFTOP AT QT
Located on level 14 of Pullman Melbourne on Swanston, Blossom Rooftop Bar is a modern and elevated rooftop for good food, great vibes, amazing drinks and skyline views.
High above the CDB, here you can enjoy wood-fired pizza, bar snacks, signature cocktails, local wines and beers, all served in an urban, vibrant and sophisticated atmosphere.
While something is on every day at Blossom, Tuesday December 31 will be something special, when the rooftop invites to a New Year's Eve party to remember.
The general admission NYE tickets features premium sparkling, wines, beer, selected cocktails and soft drinks, oyster shucking station, endless woodfired pizzas, delicious canapes, dessert station, and live music & DJ’s to help you groove into the New Year.
Add uninterrupted views of all the fireworks from the alfresco wrap around terrace, and you sense that all ingredients are there for a spectacular end to the year. To make it even more special, celebrate with friends and book one of the VIP High Tables on the terrace right here.
BLOSSOM ROOFTOP BAR
Elevated 139 metres above the ground, on the 40th floor of the opulent Oakwood Premier Melbourne, Strato is a sky-high and luxurious Melbourne rooftop bar & restaurant, with incredible city views.
Offering contemporary modern Australian cuisine, ever-evolving seasonal cocktails, elevated old favourites, wines and locally crafted beers, Strato is always a special destination, and the last night of 2024 is no exception.
To elevate your New Year’s Eve celebration, Strato will serve a meticulously curated NYE menu, infused with celebratory flavours to mark the occasion.
The price is $399, but you might want to add $200 for guaranteed window seating, secuting a front-row seat to Melbourne’s spectacular fireworks spectacle. Bookings can be made here.
STRATO
Located in the heart of the CBD, Imperial Hotel is Melbourne's 3rd oldest pub and a classic venue, equipped with a big wooden deck terrace and rooftop bar, with a fantastic view over the Parliament House and the city skyline.
In a great and relaxed atmosphere, here you can enjoy open and airy summer day and nights, but with cover and heaters, also warm and comfy winter sessions.
December 31st will hopefully bring a warm evening, but more certain is that there will be a grand New Year’s Eve Rooftop Party at the Imperial Hotel, where you can really party the last night of the year away.
The NYE evening on the rooftop includes a 4 hour drinks package of beer, wine and spirits with roaming canapes, from 8pm to midnight, along with live music and DJs keeping the atmosphere buzzing into 2025.
General Admission is $150 during the first release, and tickets can be found here.
IMPERIAL HOTEL
Taking you to Miami, Palm Springs and the pastell colors and pink signs of the '80s, Good Heavens is a vibrant and creative rooftop oasis in the heart of Melbourne.
From sunny afternoon drinks to happening nights, Good Heavens pretty much always mixes the relaxed with the buzzing, sprinkled with cool views over the city skyscrapers.
To ring in 2025 with a real bang, Good Heavens will host a NYE party with delicious canapés and flowing drinks all night, a line-up of Melbourne’s best DJs and rooftop city views of the Melbourne fireworks.
Tickets are available as Classic and Fancy, and can be found here.
GOOD HEAVENS
Found on Brunswick Street in the heart of Fitzroy, the shabby chic Provincial Hotel is an iconic neighborhood pub, equipped with a beautiful rooftop bar.
Relaxing yet vibrant, the charming rooftop features comfy benches, lots of greenery, a terracotta tiled bar, and cool views over the surrounding redbrick buildings.
Known for hosting epic party's, NYE at The Provincial Hotel is bound to be a night to remember. On the rooftop, you can end 2024 with a 4 hours bottomless beverage package with select cocktails, spirits, beer, wine & cider, roaming canapes and entertainment all night.
General admission at the rooftop is $179pp, and while well worth it, there is also an option to party on the ground floor for $55pp. Choose your option right here.
THE ROOFTOP AT THE PROVINCIAL HOTEL
Futuristic, stylish and industrial in setting, the Transit Rooftop Bar might only be two levels up but still offers magical views of the Melbourne skyline, the botanical gardens and the River Yarra below.
Located on top of the Transport Hotel, which is actually not a hotel but a bar / restaurant complex with Transport Public Bar on the ground floor, Taxi Kitchen one floor above and then Transit Rooftop Bar up top.
As we all know, nothing says New Year's Eve like a party on the rooftop, and luckily Transit Rooftop Bar will help out with hosting an exclusive New Year's Eve party, filled with the glitz and glamour of Studio 54.
Starting with a complimentary cocktail on arrival, along with roaming canapes and free flowing drinks throughout the night, the evening will be filled with music by rotating DJs, as well as one of the best views of the Melbourne fireworks display.
Get ready to dance the last night of 2024 away, and secure your tickets right here.
TRANSIT ROOFTOP BAR
Elevated high, high above Melbourne CBD, The Q Rooftop is a place of small plates and big experiences, perched on top of the modern and fabulous Quincy Hotel.
Through the panoramic windows at the stylish indoor lounge, or out on the open-air terrace, you can enjoy amazing views over the Melbourne skyline, in an atmosphere that is exclusive, yet inclusive.
This New Year's Eve, The Q Rooftop will take your festivities to new heights, where the elevated views over the city and the Melbourne fireworks are complemented with a great atmosphere.
The evening starts with a Korean 'Bae Juice' on arrival (well-known for its anti-hangover properties), and continues with a wide range of cocktails, spirits, beer, & wine, canapes, and tunes from the resident DJ.
Starting at 8pm, the $190 tickets include food and beverages, and can be found here.
THE Q ROOFTOP
Rikard has spent the last 10 years exploring, enjoying, researching and working with rooftop venues. During these years he has visited more than 700 rooftops across the globe. The experience he has gained is used to create helpful, in-depth and accessible content, and to share his knowledge and rooftop expertise with fellow rooftop-lovers.
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