Veuve Clicquot tours from Paris collect you at your hotel, or put you on the TGV, and bring you back the same evening. Most name the house and carry its ticket; you choose how many houses, and whether a guide or a chauffeur comes along.
A chauffeur collects you at 7:30 am for Moët & Chandon in Épernay, then this house in Reims, each at the tasting level you choose. Hautvillers and the cathedral sit between, lunch is yours, and you are home at about 8 pm.
From $802 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
The house and nothing else: your driver collects you at 7:30 am, you are in the cellars from 10 to 11:30, and you choose rosé, four cuvées or a magnum with La Grande Dame 2015. Home by about 4 pm.
From $563 per person
Full refund if cancelled at least 3 days (72 hours) ahead.
Two Reims houses whose cellars are chalk pits: Ruinart first, then this one, two hours in each at a tasting level chosen at booking. The cathedral and free time in the city fill the gap. Meals are yours.
From $793 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Taittinger's cellars with a Prestige Rosé, a vintage and canapés, then this house at the Advanced or Premium level. Your chauffeur adds the cathedral and time in Reims. Two people at least; meals are yours.
From $793 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Moët & Chandon's cellars in Épernay first, with time in the town, then Hautvillers's abbey church and this house's cellars. Two glasses at each house, the cathedral to finish, and twelve hours door to door.
From $724 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
A WSET-certified guide stays with you all day: a family winemaker at Rilly-la-Montagne, the Ludes vineyards, a table booked for lunch in Reims, then two hours and a quarter at this house. Marked wheelchair accessible.
From $996 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Collected between 7 and 10:30 am, you choose blended rosé, four cuvées or the vintages tasting at the house. Hautvillers and the cathedral come with it, lunch in Reims is yours, and you are back at about 4 pm.
From $534 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
The simplest private day from Paris that names the house: a Mercedes from your door, the house's English-guided cellar tour and tasting, the cathedral and ninety minutes in Reims. Two people at least; meals are yours.
From $521 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Your driver takes you from central Paris to the house, where its own guide leads the cellars and the ticket is in your fare. The cathedral and an hour and a half in Reims follow. Infant seats available.
From $561 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
A small group of seven at most, in a vehicle marked wheelchair accessible: Moët & Chandon, Hautvillers and Épernay, then this house if it has space on your date, the cathedral and the Pressoria museum. Lunch is yours.
From $648 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
No minibus: your TGV tickets from Gare de l'Est are in the fare, and a guide meets you in Reims. The cathedral, the house, lunch, the Avenue de Champagne and Hautvillers, ten tastings in all. Non-refundable.
From $645 per person
Non-refundable: this fare cannot be cancelled or changed once booked.
A Champagne day that may include the house: a famous name such as Veuve Clicquot, Mumm or Lanson, by availability, then lunch and a family producer. More than eight tastings, eight people at most, hotel pickup in Paris.
From $376 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
A private Champagne day that may include the house, or Moët & Chandon, by availability. More than eight tastings, a Champagne estate near Épernay and a Michelin-starred lunch with wine when a table is free.
From $1,216 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
A private Champagne day with a licensed driver-guide: a large house in Reims, which may be this one, Ruinart or Moët & Chandon, then a smaller grower in Épernay. Entrance and tasting fees are extra; non-refundable.
From $706 per person
Non-refundable: this fare cannot be cancelled or changed once booked.
A private day with a guide who owns vines: three hours in the vineyards, the Montagne de Reims, lunch and the cathedral, then Pommery or this house by availability. The itinerary names Pommery.
From $976 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
A chauffeur collects you at 7:30 am for Moët & Chandon and Veuve Clicquot, each at the tasting level you choose, with Hautvillers and the cathedral between.
Check availabilityIt is a whole day in Champagne, bought in Paris as one fare. You leave in the morning by car or by TGV and you are back the same evening. The days run 7 to 12.5 hours door to door, and a car day spends about four of those hours on the road.
In Reims you visit the house's cellars with its own guide, and most days add the cathedral. After that the days part ways. Some stop there and bring you home by 4 pm. Some add Moët & Chandon, Ruinart or Taittinger. Some add a family winemaker and the vineyards.
A few Champagne days from Paris only may include the house. They book a famous house by availability, and you learn which one nearer the date. Their cards say House may vary, so you can tell them apart before you pay.
Most days collect you at your Paris hotel or apartment, from 7:30 am. You change nothing, book no train and carry no tickets. On the TGV day the train tickets are in your fare instead.
Every fare that names the house carries its ticket and its tasting. The operator holds the cellar slot, and on the Clewel days you choose the tasting level at booking, up to a magnum and La Grande Dame 2015.
Two houses can mean four or more glasses. With a chauffeur or a guide at the wheel, you taste freely and sleep on the way back.
Several days pair the house with Moët & Chandon in Épernay, or with Ruinart or Taittinger in Reims. On your own, that is two bookings, two slots and a taxi between them.
The alternative is to take the TGV yourself and join a day that starts in Reims. By Reims Tourisme's figure the train takes 45 minutes. Here is how the two ways compare, from the listings' own figures.
| A day from Paris | TGV and a day from Reims | |
|---|---|---|
| Per person | $521 to $996 private; $645 to $648 shared | $375 to $382 shared, plus your TGV |
| Where you start | Your Paris hotel, from 7:30 am | Reims station, 9:20 am |
| Time on the road | About 2 hours each way | 45 minutes each way by TGV |
| A second producer | Moët & Chandon, Ruinart, Taittinger or a winemaker | A family grower on every shared day |
| Lunch | Yours on most private days | In the fare |
| Best for | Couples and families who want the car door to door | Travellers happy to catch an early train |
If you can face an early train, the Reims days give you more of Champagne for less. If you want your hotel door to be the start and the finish, a day from Paris is simpler. The Veuve Clicquot tours from Reims are all on one page.
Your train tickets from 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.
Check availabilityThe hour-by-hour plan is in the day from Paris, hour by hour, and the fares side by side in what each fare buys.
Staying in Reims instead? Compare every start with the days from Paris on Veuve Clicquot Tours.