Where to Stay in Reims: The Best Areas

Nearly two thousand years ago, the Romans held their forum here, where business was done and people met. The togas are gone, the terraces have taken over, but the square has not changed its trade. It is the most local corner of Reims, and the one where you least feel like planning anything.

Why stay here

1. A real village life, with a trendy twist. You have breakfast at an award-winning bakery, lunch on a “sacré” burger, dinner in an Art Deco brasserie. You wander like a local: at the florist with her delightful shop front spilling out onto the street; at the iconic cheese shop, where you go in for a piece and leave with a platter; at the wine merchant, finder of incredible growers, who slips into your hands the bottle you would never have found alone; at the Gault & Millau-awarded bakery, where the Saturday-morning crowd is made up of regulars. On Fridays and Saturdays, the Halles du Boulingrin, a spectacular historic landmark, host the market. You take the time to discover small original shops and passionate antique dealers, and between two purchases, you sit on a terrace on the square and forget what you had planned to do.
2. Treats on every street corner. A chocolate by a three-Michelin-star chef at Alain Ducasse’s counter on Place de l’Hôtel de Ville, made from bean to bar; the old-fashioned pralines of the Caffet house; the pâtisserie Aux Merveilleux de Fred, whose meringues coated in whipped cream and chocolate shavings melt in the mouth like a cloud; and Choc’n Roll, a rock-and-roll shop where master chocolatier Jules Duterlay creates pralines, macarons and homemade spreads before your eyes.
3. Heritage you come across without looking for it. The Halles du Boulingrin, a unique Art Deco landmark in France, and Le Cellier, a former Champagne cellar from 1898, are part of our Art Deco trail. On rue de Tambour, a façade carries five sculpted musicians. And beneath the square lies the Roman cryptoporticus, a remnant of the ancient forum: you can see it from the square, but it almost never opens to visitors. Dozens of typical little streets will surprise you with their architects’ façades and their many details steeped in history.
4. Champagne on every street corner. The great houses are at home here: Thiénot and its must-visit rooftop, Veuve Clicquot and its exclusive private mansion. Champagne will be offered to you in any bar in the area, each with its own original list, shaped by its owner. From the Wine Bar by Le Vintage, whose sparkling-wine list was voted the best in France in 2026, to Le Clos, which puts a different house in the spotlight every week, by way of Trésors de Champagne, the meeting place of independent growers, and of course the wine merchants of the square, who put into your hands a grower you cannot find anywhere else.
5. Authentic Champagne evenings. An award-winning wine bar, an open-air bar hidden in a courtyard, bars open until 2 a.m. at weekends (Le Clos, Le Pavé, The Shop Bar): everything is within a few streets. In summer, free concerts on the steps of the cryptoporticus, generally on Thursdays and Fridays.
6. The Cathedral on foot, the Christmas market too. The Cathedral is 300 m from Place du Forum, and in December the Reims Christmas market, on the Hautes Promenades, is truly close: less than ten minutes on foot.

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To experience this area from the inside, our three apartments await you on rue du Marc, in a neoclassical mansion dating from 1859. Cobbled, pedestrian and peaceful, this street is among the oldest in Reims. It sits beside two small green spaces: a quiet, discreet square, nestled in the remains of a house with its Wallace fountain, and a garden with Romanesque arcades, where a piano is left freely available. On the Champagne side, you go down into the cellars of the Thiénot house, opposite our apartments, before coming back up to toast on its rooftop, with the Cathedral as a backdrop. Place du Forum, its terraces and its cryptoporticus are 40 m away, and at a leisurely pace you reach the Halles du Boulingrin as well as the Cathedral.