Veuve Clicquot with Kids or Non-Drinkers: Age Rules and What Works

What the house itself allows

Start with the house, since every tour ends up there. It sets no minimum age for its cellar tours. It has no storage for strollers or wheelchairs, but you can ask at reception to take them down into the cellars. No animals are allowed, and the house asks you to mention reduced mobility when you book. The full list is on the visitor guide.

Tastings are another matter. Where an operator sets a tasting age, it is 18. Children can still enjoy the walk through the chalk and the story of the widow who ran the house. Still weighing up your Veuve Clicquot booking? The operators' rules below are the thing to check first.

Each operator's age rule

These are the rules the operators print on their own listings. They differ, so read the one for the day you are booking.

The best days for a family

A private day gives you control of the pace, and that matters more with children than the fare does. The private day from Reims with a boutique producer is the easiest fit. Its fares have child and youth rates, the vehicle has infant seats, and it is marked stroller and wheelchair accessible. One family brought their one-year-old, and the guide was good with the baby.

From Paris, Clewel's Ruinart and Taittinger days let under-18s join the cellar tours, and a car of your own means no train to manage. On its Grand Vintage day, the Moët Collection option is for adults only, so book the Grand Vintage level with a teenager. Tour Up in Europe's small-group day is marked wheelchair and stroller accessible. It adds the Pressoria sensory museum, a change of pace for younger travellers. Galaxytour's private half day from Paris has infant seats and youth fares from age 3, and keeps the day short: the house, the cathedral and free time for lunch. From Reims or Épernay, France Intense's private day also carries infant seats. Every private option is on Veuve Clicquot private tours.

What children can do around the visit

• The cellars themselves. Chalk pits, long galleries and racks of bottles are a good hour for a curious child. Bring them a jumper: it is 10 to 12 °C down there.
• Café Clicquot. It opens 11 am to 5 pm, needs no booking, and anyone can use it.
• Reims Cathedral. Free to enter and open every day from 8 am, and on many tours from Reims anyway.
• Hautvillers. A hillside village with a view over the vines, on many tour routes.

The house's family pricing, as a pattern

The house's own summer events show how it treats families. In 2026 its rosé picnic at the Manoir de Verzy, in the vineyards, charged €88 for adults, €55 for ages 10 to 17, €32 under 10, and nothing under 3. Its September harvest luncheon charged €72 for ages 3 to 17. Both 2026 seasons have now ended. Watch the house's site in spring for the next ones. The estate and the villages around it are on the vineyards page.

Non-drinkers, drivers and anyone expecting

You do not have to drink to enjoy the house. The story of Madame Clicquot, the chalk cellars and the riddling racks work without a glass. On a tour you pay the same fare whether you taste or not, so a non-drinker is paying for the visit, the transport and the guide.

That is the strongest case for a tour when someone in your group does not drink. Nobody has to drive, and nobody has to count glasses. If you are pregnant, note that À La Française does not recommend its shared day for pregnant travellers. A lighter day, such as a single cellar tour and the cathedral, may suit you better.

A family day in Reims, hour by hour

Here is one way to fit the house around children without a tour. Every time below is a published one; the gaps are yours to fill.

1. Morning, the TGV from Paris. About 45 minutes to Reims.
2. 8 am onwards, Reims Cathedral. Free, and open every day from 8 am.
3. Late morning, the house. Your €36 cellar tour lasts an hour; book the slot ahead.
4. From 11 am, Café Clicquot. Lunch or a snack at the visit centre, no booking needed.
5. Afternoon, back to the centre. A taxi, the Citybus or a 30-minute walk.

That day costs two cellar tickets for the adults, the train and lunch. Compare it with a private day for the whole family before you decide.

If you go without a tour

With children, a self-guided visit can be the simplest day of all. Take the TGV to Reims, book the €36 hour at the house for a time that suits your children, and eat at the café. Then walk or ride to the cathedral in the afternoon. The routes from both stations are on how to get there, and the answers to the other questions families ask are on the FAQs.

For the history in child-sized pieces, the house's key dates make a good read on the train. Pick the day that fits your family, and book it with the ages of everyone in your party.

Days that suit families and mixed groups

Champagne Small Group Guided Full-Day Trip Moët & Veuve Clicquot

Marked wheelchair and stroller accessible, with infant seats: Moët & Chandon and this house if they have space on your date, plus the Pressoria museum.

From $648 per person

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Veuve Clicquot and Reims Cathedral Private Champagne HalfDay Trip

Infant seats available and a car of your own from Paris: the house's cellar tour with its ticket in the fare, the cathedral and free time for lunch.

From $561 per person

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