The W Barcelona rooftop bar is NOXE, on the 26th floor of Ricardo Bofill’s sail: a cocktail bar, a Japanese restaurant and a club, open every night from 7pm to 2am and until 3am on Fridays and Saturdays. Entry is from 21, in smart clothes, and the bar takes no bookings: you go up while there is room.
You want a drink on the highest floor above the sea, a Japanese dinner with the city below and a DJ until 3am.
PricesYou want open air or a sunset without a dress code: Nobu’s 25th-floor rooftop is outdoors and takes no bookings, and the EDITION and the Central pour €17 cocktails on terraces in the old town.
Other rooftopsThe bar is the top floor of the building that changed Barcelona’s seafront, and it has already changed its name once.
W Barcelona opened in October 2009 in Ricardo Bofill’s glass sail, 98.8 metres tall by Wikipedia’s count, at the end of the Barceloneta seafront. Its top-floor bar was Eclipse until a full redesign of the former sky bar on floor 26, which Marriott’s press release of 11 May 2023 announced as NOXE, opening that June.
The interiors are by the international studio Black Sheep, which, by the same release, took its cues from the seabed, Catalan modernisme and Gaudí’s biomimicry. The kitchen is Japanese, in the spirit of an omakase, with an open counter and vegan and vegetarian dishes (NOXE).
Plenty of pages have not caught up. The Rooftop Guide, second in Google’s American results, still puts the W’s rooftop bar on the 1st floor (The Rooftop Guide); the first British result is a Facebook post wondering whether the sky bar has closed, and promoters still use the Eclipse name. NOXE opens every night, with a DJ session on each one in October 2026 (programme).
We read the W’s 2,000 most recent Google reviews on 4 October 2026. Guests who go up praise the view of the port and the city; on busy nights there is a queue, since the bar is walk-in only while there is room, and a check at the door (Google reviews).
From the clothes at the door to the DJ after midnight, as NOXE’s own pages and its guests described it on 4 October 2026.
NOXE asks for elegant, chic clothes: no trainers, flip-flops, beach sandals, ripped jeans, sportswear, swimwear or caps, and no sleeveless shirts for men (entry policy). Entry is from 21 and ID may be requested (FAQ). There is no cloakroom or luggage storage, so leave suitcases and backpacks behind.
Through the glass you see the port, the beach and the city: in October 2026 a guest picked out the whole of the beach, the hills around Barcelona and the Sagrada Família (Google reviews). You sit indoors, behind floor-to-ceiling windows (The Rooftop Guide).
Open daily until 11.30pm. On the 2026 menu, the chef’s selection for 2 is €82, A5 wagyu from the robata €55, sashimi for two €68 and nigiri €7 to €9 a piece, VAT included (menu).
La Terraza del Central is 33 minutes away on foot, the EDITION’s Roof 36 and La Isabela 43; Nobu’s rooftop is 14 minutes by car.
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NOXE publishes its food menu but not its drinks list: here is what the menu says and what guests and a promoter report, read on 4 October 2026.
From NOXE’s pages and FAQ, read on 4 October 2026.
| Hours | Bar 7pm to 2am Sunday to Thursday, to 3am Friday and Saturday; restaurant 7pm to 11.30pm daily |
|---|---|
| Age | Over 21 only; ID may be requested |
| Dress code | Elegant and chic: no trainers, flip-flops, ripped jeans, sportswear, swimwear or caps; no sleeveless shirts for men |
| Bookings | Bar walk-in only, by capacity; restaurant bookings recommended at weekends and in high season |
| Club | Guest list or VIP table; neither guarantees entry |
| Bags | No cloakroom or luggage storage; no suitcases, large bags or backpacks |
| Pets | Not allowed in the restaurant, the bar or the club |
| Where | The 26th floor of a tower 98.8 metres tall, indoors behind glass |
For hotel guests the lift is the whole journey home, and the upper floors have the 2026 renovation.
The Superior Sky, 40 m² from the 10th floor up, sleeps up to 3; the Penthouse Suite, 293 m² on the 25th floor, sits right below NOXE, with 3 bedrooms and 2 terraces. On Google Hotels, read on 4 October 2026 for 2 adults, a night cost €378 on 15 November, €330 on 20 December and €320 on 8 March 2027, without saying for which room; the tourist tax, €12 a person a night, is extra (Generalitat).
All 11 room and suite categories, with photosFloor, hours, prices and door from each bar’s own page, read on 4 October 2026, and the time it takes from the W.
NOXE is the highest of the 5 and the only one with a club and a 21+ door; it is also the only one indoors all year and the only one that does not publish its drinks list. Nobu Rooftop, a floor lower on the 25th, calls itself the highest rooftop bar in Barcelona and is open-air, from 10am to midnight, without bookings: the 2 claims hold together, one inside and one out.
In the old town, La Terraza del Central on the 8th floor and The Roof at the EDITION on the 10th serve signature cocktails at €17 from midday; La Isabela, on La Rambla, opens only from June to the end of September and pours a mojito at €16. For a sunset over the sea NOXE opens at 7pm, while the others are open through the afternoon.
| Rooftop | Where | From its page | From the W |
|---|---|---|---|
| W Barcelona: NOXE | 26th floor, indoors behind glass | Bar 7pm to 2am, 3am on Friday and Saturday; over-21s; smart dress; walk-ins by capacity; no drinks list published. | You are here |
| Nobu Rooftop, Nobu Hotel Barcelona | 25th floor, near Sants | Open-air, billed as the highest rooftop bar in Barcelona; 10am to midnight daily, no bookings; signature cocktails €18 to €19. | 14 minutes by car |
| La Terraza del Central, Grand Hotel Central | 8th floor, Via Laietana | Open-air above the Gothic Quarter, with a pool for hotel guests; noon to 10pm; signature cocktails €17. | 33 minutes on foot |
| The Roof, The Barcelona EDITION | 10th floor, by Santa Caterina market | A Mediterranean terrace; 11am to midnight daily, walk-ins only; signature cocktails €17. | 36 minutes on foot |
| La Isabela, Hotel 1898 | 7th floor, La Rambla | Open-air, June to the end of September only, noon to midnight; mojito €16, Aperol Spritz €15. | 43 minutes on foot |
Times from the W computed on OpenStreetMap’s streets on 4 October 2026, the day we read each bar’s page and menu.
In the W’s Google reviews of the last 12 months, read on 4 October 2026, the rooftop is praised for the view of the port, the beach and the city. On busy nights there is a wait, since the bar is walk-in only, and age and dress are checked at the door. On Tripadvisor NOXE scores 3.2 out of 5 as a restaurant.
The name, the floor, the door, the dress code and the bill: what people ask before going up.
Yes: NOXE, on the 26th floor, open every night from 7pm to 2am and until 3am on Fridays and Saturdays (NOXE). It is a cocktail bar, a Japanese restaurant and a club, indoors behind floor-to-ceiling glass.
Elegant and chic: no trainers, flip-flops or beach sandals, no ripped jeans, sportswear or swimwear, no caps, and no sleeveless shirts for men (entry policy). NOXE reserves the right of admission.
21, and ID may be requested at the door (FAQ). A club promoter lists NOXE as 18+, which contradicts NOXE’s own rule.
Not for the bar: it is walk-in only, as long as there is room (NOXE). The restaurant takes walk-ins but recommends booking at weekends and in high season (FAQ); for the club there is a guest list or a VIP table, and neither guarantees entry.
NOXE publishes none. A club promoter lists its NOXE guest-list nights as free and quotes VIP tables from a €500 minimum spend, €1,000 or more by the windows (promoter).
NOXE does not publish a drinks list. A Tripadvisor review reports €19 a cocktail (review) and a club promoter puts the average drink at €17 (promoter); on the 2026 food menu the chef’s selection for 2 is €82 (menu).
It is the same 26th-floor space: Eclipse, the W’s former sky bar, was redesigned and reopened as NOXE in June 2023 (Marriott). Pages and promoters that still say Eclipse are describing the old bar.
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