How to Visit Veuve Clicquot in 2026: Cellar Slots, Hours, Trains and Costs

Veuve Clicquot at a glance

Most first visits go wrong on one of three things: a closed day, the wrong station, or a tour that visits "a famous house such as" this one. The table covers the facts you need before you book, and the rest of the post explains each. Looking for Veuve Clicquot tickets? The house sells them itself, and the tours that include one are compared side by side.

Tickets: the house sells its own

You do not need a tour to get in. The house runs its own cellar tours, each a guided walk through its chalk cellars with a tasting at the end. You book them on the house's website for a date and a time, and you pay the house. The two cheaper ones last an hour. The three longer ones can also be booked for your party alone.

Which one should you pick? For a first visit, the €36 hour shows you the cellars and pours the house's signature wine. If you care about older wines, the two-hour tour on ageing pours them. The full list, with what each visit shows, is on the cellars page.

When the house is open in 2026

The calendar is the fact most visitors miss. The house closes for the winter and shuts on Mondays for much of the year. For 2026 it publishes these periods:

• Closed from 28 December 2025 until 6 April.
• Tuesday to Sunday from 7 April to 28 June.
• Every day from 29 June to 30 August.
• Tuesday to Sunday from 1 September to 1 November.
• Wednesday to Sunday from 4 November 2026 to 3 January 2027.

It is also closed on 1 May, 25 December and 1 January. No date after 3 January 2027 is published yet, so check before you plan a winter trip. The month-by-month picture, with the weather, is on the Reims weather page, and the rest of the house's rules are on the visitor guide.

Getting there from Paris and from Reims station

The TGV runs from Paris Gare de l'Est to Reims in about 45 minutes. Reims has two stations. Reims Centre is in the city, and most tours meet on its forecourt. Champagne-Ardenne TGV stands outside the city at Bezannes and is linked to the centre by tram. Check which one your ticket names.

The visit centre sits on the edge of the city. By the house's own figures it is a 30-minute walk from the centre, 15 minutes by car from Reims Centre station and ten from Champagne-Ardenne TGV. A Citybus stop is named "Veuve Clicquot". If you drive, there are 20 car spaces, five coach bays and a taxi drop-off in front of reception. The step-by-step routes are on how to get there.

Access, strollers and what you cannot bring

The house says its visit, boutique and café are accessible to people with reduced mobility, and asks you to mention it when you book. There is no storage for strollers or wheelchairs, but on request at reception you can take them down into the cellars. No animals are allowed anywhere in the visit centre, for food-safety reasons. The house publishes no minimum age; each tour operator sets its own, and the post on children and non-drinkers lists them.

How long to allow

Allow the length of your cellar tour plus half an hour for the boutique or a coffee. Café Clicquot, the first permanent one anywhere, has served the visit centre since March 2023. It opens 11 am to 5 pm and takes no reservations. With a train each way, a self-guided visit fills a comfortable half day. A tour from Reims takes eight to nine hours; one from Paris takes seven to twelve and a half.

The ways to go, and what each costs

If you only want the house, book it direct and take the train. A tour earns its fare when you want more than the house: the vineyards, a family grower, lunch, or a driver so nobody in your group has to stay sober. These are the main choices, per person:

• A shared day from Reims station, $375 to $382, with the house, a grower and lunch in the fare. The day with family growers and lunch is the most reviewed.
• A private day from Reims, $520 to $838, with your own guide; the private day with a boutique producer is wheelchair accessible.
• A private day from your Paris hotel, $521 to $996; the Grand Vintage day adds Moët & Chandon.
• By TGV with a guide, $645, with your train tickets and lunch in the fare.

Every shared and private day from the city is on Veuve Clicquot tours from Reims, and every day from the capital on Veuve Clicquot tours from Paris.

Best time to go

Go early in the day and midweek if you can. The house opens at 9:30 am, and the tours from Reims station reach it first thing. In high summer it opens every day, which gives you the widest choice of dates. The harvest in the vineyards around Reims opened in August in 2026. In November and December the house opens Wednesday to Sunday, and Reims holds its Christmas market.

The house's story is worth ten minutes before you go: the dates behind the yellow label take you from 1772 to the Baltic shipwreck. Then book the tour that fits, and you are ready to taste.

Tours that take care of the trains and the timing

From Reims Champagne Day Trip Veuve Clicquot Local Domain & Lunch

You meet at the Reims station forecourt at 9:20 am: the house's cellars and tastings, lunch in Reims and a family grower at Rilly-la-Montagne, back at the station the same day.

From $382 per person

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Veuve Clicquot Tour From Paris

Your TGV tickets from Paris Gare de l'Est are in the fare, and a guide meets you in Reims for the house, lunch, the Avenue de Champagne and Hautvillers. Non-refundable once booked.

From $645 per person

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Veuve Clicquot Champagne Tastings Cellars Private trip from Paris

The lowest private fare from Paris that names the house: a chauffeur from your door, the house's English-guided cellar tour and time in Reims. Meals are yours.

From $521 per person

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