Build a cmu block wall on two sides, face it with stone and do a concrete counter top acid stained and sealed and cantilevered 12" so you can pull bar stools up to it

Both suggestions above are good. One house we did had an outdoor deck area which led to a pool and we put timber decking on the deck with a perpendicular timber-decked walkway leading to the pool. We then put lights in the walkway which created a 'catwalk', continuing along the deck. It looked great at night lit up with the pool lights on too! Love the stepping stones and gravel idea too.

try a deck and ramp built out of modwood or similar composite decking that should be able to sit on top of the tiles and provide a textured no slip surface ...a good handyman or carpenter would be able to build this for you and it would look much neater than the usual add on

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