The Best Las Vegas Lounges With Live Music

The one to build a night around

The Pinky Ring, Bellagio

Bruno Mars created and curated this room, and the reason to go is that The Hooligans, his own touring band, play live nightly, alongside a rotating roster of artists he picks himself. Hearing that band in a lounge rather than an arena is genuinely the draw.

Two things to know before you plan around it. It is reservation driven rather than a walk-in bar, and seating is sold in tiers with a spend minimum starting around 300 dollars rather than a cover charge. And it enforces a strict no phones policy on the floor, no photos and no video, which is exactly why the room feels the way it does. Full detail in how to get into The Pinky Ring, and the honest answer on whether Bruno Mars himself turns up is here.

The nightly piano rooms

Eastside Lounge, Encore at Wynn

Nightly dueling pianos under red parasol lanterns. This is the most reliably fun music room on the Strip for a group, because dueling pianos is a participation format rather than a listening one. No cover, plush seating, and it works for a mixed age group better than almost anything else in this guide.

Petrossian Bar, Bellagio

Bellagio's lobby bar, a grand piano, caviar service and classic cocktails under the Chihuly glass ceiling. This is the quietest room on the list and the most elegant. It is a two-people-talking room, or a pre-dinner drink room, not a group night out. Go at 6pm.

The craft cocktail rooms that program jazz and soul

The Dorsey, The Venetian

One of the best craft cocktail bars in Las Vegas on the drinks alone, and it leans jazz, soul and ambient rather than a DJ. If your priority is a genuinely excellent drink in a room where the music is right rather than loud, this is the pick.

Easy's Cocktail Lounge, ARIA

Tucked inside the Proper Eats food hall at ARIA, which sounds unpromising and is not. Jazz, soul and classic rock, green velvet, and a serious cocktail list. It is the best value room in this guide and the one most visitors walk straight past.

The view and the volume

Skyfall Lounge, Delano

64th floor, floor-to-ceiling Strip views, and live music at sunset. Time your visit for golden hour rather than late, because the view is half the point and it is a different room in daylight. It is also the answer for anyone who wants a rooftop without the queue and the door of a rooftop club.

Rocks Lounge, Red Rock Resort

Off Strip in Summerlin, a live music and bottle service lounge with animal print booths and a genuinely high-energy weekend crowd. This is where locals go, which is both the appeal and the reason it does not feel like a tourist room.

How to actually use these

• Go earlier than you would to a club. Most of these rooms are at their best between 7 and 11pm, not at 1am. That also means a lounge night does not cost you the following day.
• Book the live music rooms. Standard cocktail lounges you can walk into. Rooms with a stage and a nightly band are reservation driven, and the good seats go first. See how lounge cover, dress code and reservations work.
• Dress for a restaurant. Smart casual clears everywhere on this list. Clean sneakers are fine, athletic wear and beachwear are not.
• Ask what is on your night. Guest programming varies, and it is the single detail worth checking before you pick a room.

Why a live music lounge beats a nightclub for a lot of groups

No cover at most of them, no cutoff time, no door negotiation, no ratio, drinks that are better and often cheaper, and you can hear each other. For couples, mixed age groups, anyone entertaining colleagues and anyone who has quietly decided the nightclub thing is over for them, this is the better night and almost nobody suggests it. The full comparison is in nightclub vs dayclub vs lounge.

Tell a host which property you are staying at and what your group is like, and we will tell you what is playing on your dates, book the rooms that need booking, and put together a route that works on foot. There is no fee for any of it. Browse them all on our lounges page.