What is Allegra Rooftop Pool & Bar?
Allegra is the roof of the newest hotel in the Entertainment District, and the reason to go up is the view: twelve floors over Old Town, with Camelback Mountain filling the north windows. It opened with The REMI. on July 22, 2025 at 4415 N Buckboard Trail, a month later than planned and more than two years later than the Super Bowl deadline the hotel was first built to meet.
The hotel is a 12-story, 161-room Autograph Collection property developed by Shawn and Steven Yari, the brothers whose family built the W Scottsdale in 2008 and whose companies have run Maya Day + Night next door since it opened. Crescent Hotels & Resorts manages it, Rockwell Group designed the public spaces, and Alliance Hospitality Group curates the food and drink. Allegra is one of five venues: the others are the Lobby Bar, which doubles as a backstage entrance into Maya, the Kauboi Terrace over the Maya dayclub pool, the Japanese steakhouse Kauboi and the diner F/Sixteen.
The roof itself is sold as Moroccan-inspired, “made for golden hour glamour,” with cabanas, daybeds, craft cocktails and sunset DJ sets. The hotel bills it as the highest rooftop pool in Scottsdale, and in a downtown of low buildings that is not an idle claim. It runs two lives a day: a pool club from 10 a.m., and after 6 p.m., when swimwear is no longer allowed, a lounge with a dress code that runs to 2 a.m. Thursday through Saturday.
Our verdict: this is the best sunset in the district and the most polished pool deck in Old Town, with a nightlife side that is still deciding what it wants to be. Our list of every bar and club in Scottsdale and the rooftop guide both put it near the top.
Day pool, night lounge: how to use the roof
Pick your session. Allegra opens at 10 a.m. every day. Through the afternoon it is a pool club: cabanas, daybeds, a kitchen serving lunch and small plates until 6 p.m., with entrées that Experience Scottsdale’s listing puts in the $10 to $20 range. At 6 the kitchen closes and the swimwear rule kicks in; from then on it is a cocktail lounge with DJs, open to midnight Sunday through Wednesday and 2 a.m. Thursday through Saturday. The two crowds do not overlap much, and the hour between them is the quietest, best-lit time to be there.
Dress for the night. After 6 p.m. Allegra follows The REMI.’s dress code: business casual or upscale fashionable, collared shirts or button-downs and closed-toed shoes for men, and nothing on the banned list, which includes athleisure, slides, flip-flops, cutoffs, caps, backpacks, streetwear and graphic shirts. Admittance at night is at management’s discretion, which in practice means a door.
Book the furniture. Walk-ins can use the bar, but the pool deck works on reservations. Cabanas, daybeds and VIP tables with bottle service are booked through the Allegra site, and the roof hosts birthday parties, bachelorette groups and full takeovers; Experience Scottsdale lists a maximum indoor group of 240. Pricing is not published, so ask. Our cabana explainer and the resort pool and day pass guide cover how the minimums tend to work.
Know the fees. There is a 3.5 percent adjustment on card payments, and the hotel has no garage of its own: valet is the way in, and Scottsdale Spot reported it at $25 to $50. A rideshare to Buckboard Trail is cheaper and faster on any weekend night.
Plan around the calendar. Allegra’s Sky Pool Social Club runs an events calendar, with themed day and night parties around Halloween and the holidays, and the roof fills during spring training, WM Phoenix Open week and spring break. Guests of the hotel get VIP entry to Maya downstairs, so on a Saturday the smart order is roof for sunset, then the elevator down.
The block that keeps being rebuilt
Allegra stands on ground that has been nightlife for a generation. The parcel at Indian Plaza and Buckboard held Dakota, a bar in the Yari family’s Spellbound Entertainment Group, and the block beside it held Myst and Suede until they were demolished in 2012 for the pool club that opened as Maya in April 2013. When Spellbound merged with Riot Hospitality Group in December 2019, the family’s first request under its Scottsdale Collective plan was to replace Dakota with a boutique hotel.
The city’s Development Review Board approved that hotel, about 163 rooms, in 2020. The working name was the Maya Hotel and the target was the February 2023 Super Bowl in Glendale. Construction problems pushed it back more than two years; a June 2025 opening slipped to July 22. By then it had a new name, which Shawn Yari told the Scottsdale Progress is short for “reminisce,” a Marriott flag and a general manager, Beth Brainard, who described a hotel built to encapsulate Scottsdale’s “energy and social scene.” Maya itself had reopened on May 23, 2025 after a floor-to-ceiling rebuild by Riot, with a 100-foot carved goddess behind the bar and a dual DJ booth linking the dayclub to the nightclub.
What Allegra adds to that story is height. For most of the 2000s and 2010s, the district’s pool scene lived on the second floor of the W, whose WET Deck invented the Scottsdale day club in 2008. The 2020s moved it upward: Outrider at the Canopy on a seventh floor in 2020, the WOLF Pool at Caesars Republic on a seventh floor in 2024, and now Allegra on a twelfth. The hotel’s claim to the highest rooftop pool is the kind of thing operators fight over, and Caesars still advertises the only rooftop pool and bar from its own roof. On the numbers, Allegra is the tallest, and the view agrees.
Honest assessment: the pool club is excellent and the sunset is the best in Old Town. The late-night lounge is newer and less sure of itself, and a roof that closes its kitchen at 6 and asks for collared shirts at 7 is still working out who its night crowd is. Give it a season. The building below it has been a work in progress since 1999.