BUDGET BASIC CHAMPAGNE WEEKEND
Budget Basic Champagne Tasting Tour - What's Included
The Grape Escapes Budget Basic Champagne Tasting Weekend includes 2 nights accommodation in your chosen Reims hotel, plus a full day tour around the Champagne region. For prices and hotel choices, please see our dates and prices page.
Introduced in January 2009 in response to the effects of the Credit Crunch, our budget tours have proved very popular. Whilst this tour doesn’t offer the incredible dining experiences, the fantastic personalities of the Champagne & wine makers and the very wide range of Champagnes and wines that we taste on our other tours, it does include the opportunity to visit both a family run and a prestigious Champagne House / winery together with a great wine / Champagne tasting lunch or dinner. In addition, because this tours is simpler to arrange, we are able to offer it not just at weekends, but on several weekdays as well.
In general, we will work with a carefully selected local partner for some or all of the tour elements. This will usually mean that the parts of the tour that are transported may well have a central departure point (as opposed to our Premium tours where all guests are met at and returned to their hotels). As we use local agents, we have limited control of the detail of these tours; for example the number of wines tasted at each winery / Champagne House with our partner agencies will often be less than the extensive tastings / best wines that are included on all Premium tours.
What's Included
For full details of what is included, please see the descriptions below:
This is the tour for those on a very tight budget; however in common with all Grape Escapes tours, we don’t skimp on quality just because it is inexpensive.
- Two nights bed and breakfast in your chosen hotel in central Reims.
- A half day guided tour in the Montagne de Reims. This will include a look at several vineyards and a visit to a small, family run Champagne House for a tour and tastings of two Champagnes.
- A 3 course lunch (or dinner) in a restaurant on the main square in Reims where each course is accompanied by a glass of single varietal Champagne (one glass of Chardonnay, one glass of Pinot Noir and one glass of Pinot Meunier).
- A visit to one of the large, prestigious Champagne Houses in Reims for a tour of their cellars and a flute of their Champagne
- Optional return Dover to Calais ferry crossing for a car and two passengers
Availability
This tour is available throughout the year and can generally be arranged for any guests who will be in Reims for at least a day and a half; however the half day tour is not possible on Sundays or Wednesdays and the meal is not possible on Mondays (i.e. for guests arriving on a Saturday or Tuesday, the half day tour would be on the afternoon of arrival or the morning of departure and for guests arriving on Sunday, the meal would be dinner on the evening of arrival or lunch on the day of departure as preferred).
Extend Your Stay
If you wish to extend your stay to visit more of the Champagne region, or even head down to Burgundy, we can provide an excellent tour itinerary which includes the very best places to visit. Please call us on 08456 430 860 for details and prices.
Reims Hotels, Tour Dates and Prices
The Grape Escapes Prestige Champagne Tasting Weekend includes 2 nights accommodation in your chosen Reims hotel, plus a full day tour around the Champagne region. For prices and hotel choices, please see our dates and prices page.
Other Champagne Tasting Tours
Please see our Champagne Tasting Tours page for details of the other Champagne Tasting tours we offer.
We also arrange many private Champagne tasting tours for individuals, groups and corporate clients. So, if the above trips are not exactly what you are looking for, please give us a ring on 08456 430 860, or email us at info@grapeescapes.net to arrange your perfect Champagne Tasting Tour