Is it free to head up to the bar? Or is there a cover charge? Is it free until a certain time?

Yes. Yes.

It's free to get into the hotel so it's free to get up to the bar they don't have a cover charge inside the bar they don't have no strippers or nothing like that that in there so they would have a cover charge the bar is a part of the hotel but if you're not a guest I'm not sure about that but I would say you know the bars apart you're not going to charge you to go into the bar to spend money to have drinks so my my answer is no there's no cover charge to get into the bar are you serious

It's free