Plan Your Visit to Reims Champagne

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No single ticket opens Reims Champagne. Each house sells its own cellar tour, the cathedral is free, and a tour's fare already covers the tastings it pours. So if you are pricing Reims Champagne tickets, start with what each house charges, then set a tour's fare beside it.

Tickets: each house sells its own cellar tour

You book a house's cellar tour on the house's own website, for a set time slot. Veuve Clicquot, Pommery, Ruinart and Mumm all publish their prices, and so does Lanson. Taittinger opens for tastings all year, with a choice of tasting experiences; check its price on its own booking page. In Épernay, Moët & Chandon and Mercier sit on the same avenue.

House	Where	The visit	Adult price	Good to know
Veuve Clicquot	Reims, 1 rue Albert Thomas	Brut Yellow Label cellar tour in the chalk pits, 1 hour	EUR 36	Longer tours up to 4 hours at EUR 260
Pommery	Reims, Domaine Pommery	“The genius of Madame Pommery”, 2 hours, 2 tastings	EUR 48	In English or French
Ruinart	Reims, 4 rue des Crayères	2 hours, 2 cuvées, 12 places	EUR 90	EUR 50 aged 7–17, free under 7
Mumm	Reims, 34 rue du Champ de Mars	Cordon Rouge tour, 1 hour 30, 1 tasting	EUR 30	EUR 42 or EUR 60 with 2 tastings
Lanson	Reims, 66 rue de Courlancy	About 2 hours	EUR 32 to EUR 85	EUR 20 aged 13–17, EUR 15 aged 7–12
Moët & Chandon	Épernay, 18 avenue de Champagne	1 hour 30	From EUR 48	Up to EUR 460
Mercier	Épernay, 68 avenue de Champagne	The cellars by driverless train	EUR 25 to EUR 45	EUR 12 aged 10–17; a lift for wheelchairs
Nicolas Feuillatte	Shuttle from Épernay station	Cellar tour, 75 minutes	EUR 20 to EUR 30	1 to 3 glasses; booking only

Book your slot before you travel. Ruinart's visit takes 12 people at a time, and every house runs its tours at set times, so on a summer weekend you should not count on walking in. Each house's tour, cellars and calendar are compared on champagne house tours in Reims.

What a tour's fare already covers

On a tour, you do not buy a house ticket yourself. Every tour listed puts its tastings in the fare, and each card tells you who pours them: a big house, a family grower, or both in one day. At a big house, the house's own guide takes you down and your driver waits outside.

The glass count differs too. A traveller on the Mumm day found the house poured one glass where each grower poured three. Some private listings name a famous house “subject to availability”, and France Intense says another house may take its place, so ask before you book if one house is the reason you are going.

Two tourist offices, and the one the tours use

Reims has two tourist offices, and it matters which one you walk to. The main office stands on the cathedral parvis. The second is an information point on the Reims Centre station square, and that is where most shared tours meet.

Office	Where	Hours this autumn
Main tourist office	6 rue Rockefeller, on the cathedral parvis	Every day 10:00–18:00 to 23 November; Sundays 10:00–17:00 from October
Station information point	Cour de la Gare, the Reims Centre station square	Monday to Saturday 8:30–12:00 and 13:00–17:00, September to February; closed Sundays and public holidays

Meet at the station, not the cathedral. À La Française tells travellers not to go to the cathedral office by mistake. The station point closes on Sundays and at lunchtime, and the tours meet on the square just outside it anyway, so that is where you wait. Both offices are marked on the Reims champagne map.

Getting to Reims from Paris

The TGV from Paris takes about 45 minutes, as Lanson and Taittinger both put it. Aim for Reims Centre station: the shared tours meet on its square. Champagne-Ardenne TGV station lies outside the centre, and Veuve Clicquot puts it 10 minutes' drive from its visit centre, against 15 minutes from Reims Centre.

For Épernay, a direct train from Paris Gare de l'Est takes about 80 minutes, and Moët & Chandon's house is five minutes' walk from the station there. Check times and fares with SNCF for your own date, because timetables change.

Would you rather not do the trains yourself?

Tours from Paris collect you from your hotel or a Paris kerb, pour at a house and a grower on most days, and bring you back the same evening.

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What a first day costs

A first day costs very different amounts depending on who drives and who pours. The table sets the five ways side by side. Tour fares are per person, and most private days need two people to book.

The day	What you pay	What it gives you
On your own by train	Your train fare, plus EUR 30 to EUR 90 for each house tour	One house's cellars and tasting per slot; the cathedral is free
Half day with family growers	$140 to $183 per person	Two growers and six glasses on most, from the station square
Shared full day from Reims	$245 to $321 per person	Cellars and tastings all day, lunch in the fare on some
Day from Paris	$262 to $848 per person	The journey both ways, and a house and a grower on most
Private day from Reims	$525 to $848 per person	Your party only, pickup, and a route built on what you ask for

The house prices are the houses' own, in euros. The tour fares are the operators' own, in US dollars as each listing shows them, with the tastings already inside.

Reims Cathedral is free; the towers are booked

Reims Cathedral is free to enter and opens every day from 8:00. The doors close at 19:30, or 19:15 on Sundays and feast days, and the last entry is 15 minutes before. On Sunday until noon, you may only use the narthex.

The towers are a separate guided visit, booked online, at EUR 9, and free under 18. They run Tuesday to Saturday at 10, 11, 14, 15 and 16 h, with 17 h added from early May to early September, and on Sunday afternoons. The towers close from 16 November to 14 February. Next door, the Palais du Tau is closed for works until 2027, and only its temporary bookshop is open.

When the houses open

Calendars shift through the year, and Mondays are the day to check. In 2026, Veuve Clicquot opens Tuesday to Sunday from 7 April, every day from 29 June to 30 August, Tuesday to Sunday again to 1 November, then Wednesday to Sunday from 4 November to 3 January.

Mumm opens every day from 1 May to 31 October. It opens Thursday to Monday in March and April and from 1 November to 21 December, and Thursday to Saturday from mid-January to the end of February. In Épernay, Mercier opens every day from 6 April to 15 November.

Travelling in winter? Veuve Clicquot's visits were closed from 28 December 2025 until April, and a traveller in February found that the house their tour had named was still shut. See when to visit Reims for champagne for the whole year.

Access, children and the cold

Wheelchairs. Veuve Clicquot takes strollers and wheelchairs down on request. Mumm's visit reaches only its first level, and Mercier has a lift.
Children at the houses. Ruinart charges EUR 50 for ages 7 to 17 and nothing under 7. Lanson charges EUR 20 for 13 to 17 and EUR 15 for 7 to 12.
Children on the tours. À La Française's shared tours take no one under 10, and the e-bike afternoon needs riders of 16 or over. Nobody under 18 is served alcohol.
The cold. The cellars stay cold in every season, and Mercier says so, so bring a warm layer even in July.
Animals. Veuve Clicquot takes no animals into the cellars, and À La Française takes none on its shared tours.

Frequently asked before you go

Do you need a tour to visit the champagne houses in Reims?

Not for one house. Veuve Clicquot, Mumm, Pommery, Ruinart and Lanson all sell their own cellar tours, from EUR 30 at Mumm to EUR 90 at Ruinart. A tour earns its fare when you want the family growers in the villages, a house and a grower in one day, or a driver so nobody drives after tasting.

Where do Reims Champagne tours start?

Most shared tours from Reims start at the tourist information point on the Reims Centre station square, the Cour de la Gare, not at the main tourist office beside the cathedral. Private tours collect you from a hotel or station in Reims or Épernay.

Which station do I arrive at from Paris?

Reims Centre station, beside the meeting point most shared tours use. Champagne-Ardenne TGV station is outside the centre: Veuve Clicquot puts it 10 minutes' drive from its visit centre, against 15 minutes from Reims Centre.

How long is the train from Paris to Reims?

About 45 minutes by TGV, as Lanson and Taittinger both put it. The direct train from Paris Gare de l'Est to Épernay takes about 80 minutes, according to Moët & Chandon.

Is Reims Cathedral free to visit?

Yes. Reims Cathedral is free to enter and opens every day from 8:00; on Sunday until noon visitors may only use the narthex. The towers are a separate guided visit at EUR 9, booked online, from mid-February to mid-November.

How cold are the cellars?

Cold enough for a warm layer in every season. Mercier warns that its cellars are cold, and travellers on the Paris days advise a cardigan for the chilly cellars.

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