How to Visit Epernay in 2026: Trains, the Avenue and What It Costs

Most people start by looking for Epernay tickets, and find there is nothing single to buy. The town is free to walk. The houses each run their own visits, and the tours start at one door on the avenue. Here is how to put a first visit together: the train, the walk, which house to book, and what the day costs with a tour or without one.

Epernay quick facts

Prices as of September 2026. Check each house's booking page before you travel, because slots and calendars change with the season.

Getting to Epernay

The train is the easy way in. Direct trains leave Paris-Est and reach Epernay in 1 hour 20. From Reims, the TER "Ligne des Bulles" runs every 30 minutes and takes about half an hour, stopping at Rilly-la-Montagne, Germaine, Avenay-Val-d'Or and Aÿ on the way. If you arrive on a TGV at Champagne-Ardenne, near Reims, you are still 25 km out.

By car, Epernay is 140 km from Paris on the A4, about an hour and a half. Park in the Jard underground car park, with its entrance on rue Eugène Mercier: the first hour is free and it sits 150 m from the tourist office. The streets around the office are paid. Where to stay in Epernay weighs a night in town against a night in Reims or Paris.

From the station to the avenue

Walk out of the station and through the Hôtel de Ville garden. The tourist office, at 7 avenue de Champagne, is under 500 m away. The avenue itself runs 1.5 km from there, lined with the houses' fronts, and around 110 km of cellars run beneath it. Moët & Chandon is at no. 18, Perrier-Jouët's Cellier Belle Epoque at 26, Boizel at 46, de Castellane at 63 and Mercier at 68.

The cellars sit under 20 minutes' walk from the centre, so you do not need a car or a tour to see them. The Epernay map marks every house number, the station and the car parks.

Booking a house's own cellar visit

Each house sells its visits on its own site, by date and time. Book ahead in summer. The cheapest visit is usually the shortest, with one or two glasses at the end.

Mercier's visit runs on a driverless train through 18 km of cellars 30 m down, and the train is included at every price. Moët & Chandon's EUR 48 visit pours its Impérial and its Rosé Impérial. Nicolas Feuillatte sits out at Chouilly and takes visitors by booking only. The Epernay champagne houses sets out every visit and price in one place.

When the houses open

The calendars are what most people get wrong. Three to check before you fix a date:

• Moët & Chandon lists visits from 9:30 to 17:00 every day, and its shop stays open to 18:00.
• Mercier opens every day from 6 April to 15 November 2026, then Wednesday to Sunday until 27 December. It closes from the evening of 30 December.
• Nicolas Feuillatte opens every day, 9:30 to 12:30 and 14:00 to 17:30, by booking only.

If your dates are fixed, book the house first and build the day around it. When to visit Epernay sets the calendars beside the harvest and the avenue's two big events.

Where the tours meet

Nearly every local tour starts in front of the tourist office at 7 avenue de Champagne. The office itself keeps seasonal hours. From May to September it opens every day, 9:30 to 13:00 and 14:00 to 18:00. In the winter months it opens Monday to Saturday and closes at 16:30. The tours meet outside, so a closed door does not matter.

The private half days collect you anywhere within 6 km of Epernay. The Reims days start at the Reims station forecourt, 30 minutes away by train. The days from Paris collect you at your hotel or at a café in the city. If you are staying in Paris, the day trip from Paris with eight tastings is the one with the most reviews.

What a first day in Epernay costs

Here are three ways to spend a day, per person, before food and the train:

1. On foot, no tour. Mercier at EUR 25 and Moët & Chandon at EUR 48, plus the museum at Château Perrier for EUR 10. About EUR 83, and you never leave the avenue.
2. A house and the vines. One house visit in the morning, then the vintage van in the vines at $57 for two hours in the afternoon.
3. The growers with lunch. A house visit in the morning, then the afternoon with lunch from the tourist office at $257, with five champagnes and a family cellar.

The cheapest glass in town is a cellar hour at a family house in Pierry, just south of the centre, for $19. The dearest day is the Moët & Chandon walking day at $632, which is non-refundable. For every fare in between, and what each includes, compare the vineyard tours from Epernay and the private champagne tours from Epernay.

The museum and the rest of the avenue

Between house visits, the Musée du Vin de Champagne et d'Archéologie régionale fills Château Perrier at 13 avenue de Champagne. From April to October it opens 11:00 to 19:00, closed on Tuesdays. Last entry is an hour before closing. Things to do in Epernay covers the museum, the park behind it and the villages you can reach by bus or bike.

For the next step, the villages around Epernay explains which tours stop where, and how long they stay.

Three ways to fill the rest of your first day

Epernay: Guided Tour of Champagne Cellar with Tastings

An hour in a family house's chalk cellar in Pierry, just south of town, with three champagnes at the end. You make your own way there; the lowest fare in Epernay.

From $19 per person

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From Epernay : Champagne tasting with a vintage car

Two hours in a vintage Renault van to Aÿ and the slopes above the Marne, with champagne poured among the vines. Sabrage is EUR 15 extra.

From $57 per person

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From Epernay: Champagne Small-Group tour with tastings & Lunch

Noon to about 5:15 pm from the tourist office: a village above the Marne, lunch with champagne in Aÿ and a family producer's cellar. Five champagnes, eight people at most.

From $257 per person

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