Trip Ideas Holiday Travel New Year's Travel Ring in the New Year by Tasting 400 Champagnes in the Birthplace of Bubbly Celebrate in style. By Stacey Leasca Stacey Leasca Instagram Twitter Website Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist and co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel journalists. Her photos, videos, and words have appeared in print or online for Travel + Leisure, Time, Los Angeles Times, Glamour, and many more. You'll usually find her in an airport. If you do see her there, please say hello. Travel + Leisure Editorial Guidelines Published on December 21, 2021 Share Tweet Pin Email This New Year's Eve, Royal Champagne Hotel & Spa is inviting you to travel to the birthplace of bubbly to toast 2022 in style. Courtesy of Royal Champagne Hotel & Spa The award-winning boutique hotel, located just 45 minutes from Paris, is offering guests the chance to sample bottles from its selection of 400 Champagnes and 420 wines, including rare and exclusive varietals from small-batch vignerons, this New Year's Eve. Courtesy of Royal Champagne Hotel & Spa With their stay, guests can meet with the property's Champagne concierge, who will help curate their perfect Champagne getaway. This can include visits to top Champagne houses that aren't open to the public, as well as activities like hot air balloon rides over the vineyards, horseback riding, cooking with Champagne pairings alongside the property's acclaimed chef, Jean Denis Rieubland, and even a chance to take to the skies for a 30-minute aerobatic ride with former military pilots. Courtesy of Royal Champagne Hotel & Spa On New Year's Eve, the hotel is also hosting an extravagant dinner, which includes a seven-course meal starting with escabeche red mullet, before moving on to plates like pigeon and foie gras pithiviers, grilled scallops, roasted turbot with a caviar Champagne sauce, and beef filet with black truffle. The dinner, excluding beverages, is $405 per person (€360), or $608 per person (€540) with a wine pairing. Courtesy of Royal Champagne Hotel & Spa On Jan. 1, guests can unwind and recharge with a treatment at the hotel's expansive spa and dig into its New Year's Day brunch, which comes with bites of blue lobster and grilled sea bream, so you can start 2022 just as you left 2021, in total and complete style. See all the offerings and make reservations here. Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit