Visiting Epernay: Getting There, the Avenue and Tickets
No single ticket opens Epernay. Each champagne house sells its own cellar visit, the avenue itself is free to walk, and a tour's fare already covers the tastings it pours. So if you are pricing Epernay tickets, start with what each house charges, then set a tour's fare beside it.
Tickets: each house sells its own cellar visit
You book a house's cellar visit on the house's own website, for a set time slot. Moët & Chandon and Mercier both stand on the avenue, about 500 m from the tourist office, and both publish their prices. Nicolas Feuillatte is out of town in Chouilly, and the museum at Château Perrier sits on the avenue between the houses.
| Visit | Where | What you get | Adult price | Good to know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moët & Chandon | 18 avenue de Champagne | “The Imperial Moment”, 1 hour 30 in the cellars, 2 glasses | EUR 48 | Longer tours EUR 65 to EUR 460; open 9:30–17:00 daily |
| Mercier | 68 avenue de Champagne | The cellars by driverless train, 45 minutes, 1 glass | EUR 25 to EUR 45 | EUR 12 aged 10–17, younger children free |
| Nicolas Feuillatte | Chouilly, on the Côte des Blancs | Cellar tour, 75 minutes, 1 to 3 glasses | EUR 20 to EUR 30 | Every day, booking only |
| Musée du Vin de Champagne | Château Perrier, on the avenue | The region from its soils to today | EUR 10 | EUR 6.50 reduced; free under 13 and on the first Sunday |
Book your slot before you travel, because every house runs its visits at set times. Moët & Chandon's shortest tour pours its Impérial and Rosé Impérial; its longer tours add vintages and a vineyard experience. The other houses on the avenue, such as de Castellane and Perrier-Jouët, are compared on the champagne houses in Epernay.
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: family growers, a big house, both in one day, or nobody at all, because the vineyard rides open a bottle among the vines.
The houses are walkable and the growers are not. The growers sit in the villages outside town, in Aÿ, Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, Cramant and Oger, and no bus reaches their cellars. That is where a tour earns its fare: someone else drives, and you taste.
The tourist office, where the tours meet
The Office de Tourisme stands at 7 avenue de Champagne, next to the Hôtel de Ville, and most tours that start in town meet in front of it. It is open all year, and its advisors speak French and English.
| Months | Tourist office hours |
|---|---|
| January, February, November, December | Monday to Saturday 10:00–13:00 and 14:00–16:30 |
| March, April, June, October | Monday to Saturday 10:00–13:00 and 14:00–17:30, and Sundays from April |
| May, July, August, September | Every day 9:30–13:00 and 14:00–18:00 |
It also opens on public holidays from April to October, and it changes its hours for the Soirée Blanche on 14 July and for Habits de Lumière in December.
Getting to Epernay
Direct trains from Paris-Est take 1 hour 20 minutes. From Reims, the TER “Ligne des Bulles” runs every 30 minutes and takes about half an hour, stopping at Aÿ on the way. The station is under 500 m from the tourist office, through the Hôtel de Ville garden.
By car, Epernay is 140 km from Paris, about 1 hour 30 by the A4, and 27 km from Reims. Champagne-Ardenne TGV station is 25 km away. Park in the Jard underground car park, entered from rue Eugène Mercier, 150 m from the office: the first hour is free, and the streets around it are paid.
From May to October, the tourist office books the Esprit de Champagne shuttle, eight seats, which runs three times a day. Bikes can be hired near the station, on the Véloroute 52. Check train times and fares with SNCF for your own date, because timetables change.
Would you rather not do the trains yourself?
The days from Paris collect you from your hotel or a Paris café, pour at a house and at family growers, and bring you back the same evening.
What a first day costs
A first day costs very different amounts depending on who drives and who pours. The table sets five ways side by side. Tour fares are per person unless the card says otherwise; the jeep and the open-top bus are one fare for the vehicle.
| The day | What you pay | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| On foot on the avenue | EUR 25 to EUR 48 for each house visit, EUR 10 for the museum | One house's cellars and glasses per slot, booked with the house |
| Two hours in the vines | $57 per person in the vintage van | Aÿ and Dom Pérignon's village, and a glass among the vines |
| An afternoon with growers | $257 per person, lunch in the fare | A family house, lunch at an estate, five champagnes |
| A private half day | $298 to $333 per person, two minimum | Your party only, pickup within 6 km, growers in the villages |
| A day from Paris | $262 to $400 per person | The drive both ways, a house and growers on most |
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.
When the houses open
Moët & Chandon lists its visits from 9:30 to 17:00 every day, with the shop open until 18:00. Mercier's 2026 calendar runs every day from 6 April to 15 November, then Wednesday to Sunday from 18 November to 27 December. It closes on 25 and 31 December, and shuts for its annual break from the evening of 30 December.
Nicolas Feuillatte opens every day, 9:30–12:30 and 14:00–17:30, by booking only. The museum at Château Perrier opens 11:00–19:00 from April to October, closed on Tuesdays. From November to March it opens 13:30–18:00, 10:00–18:00 at weekends, and closes on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Hautvillers: the church, not the abbey
Hautvillers is 6 km north of town, and most tours stop there. Dom Pérignon managed the abbey's cellars from 1668 until he died in 1715, and his tomb is in the choir of the church of Saint-Sindulphe, open to the public all year.
The abbey buildings are a different matter. They belong to Moët & Chandon and are not open to visitors, so a listing that promises to “visit the abbey” means the church and the village.
Access, children and the cold
- Wheelchairs. Mercier has a lift and a special entrance for wheelchair users. Every tour listing that answers says it is not wheelchair accessible, so ask before you book.
- Children at the houses. Mercier charges EUR 12 for ages 10 to 17 and nothing for younger children. The museum is free under 13.
- Children on the tours. The afternoon from the tourist office takes no one under 10, and the e-bike day and the Reims wineries tour no one under 12. The vintage van states no age limit.
- The cold. The chalk cellars stay at 10 to 12 °C in every season, and Moët & Chandon asks you to bring warm clothes, even in July.
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