Champagne/Alsace/Burgundy Itinerary suggestions

Please don't get in a car to drive after you've been flying all night. No matter how much you think you won't be jet-lagged,you will be. Don't put lives of those in your car or others at risk.

Hi Carol, thanks for your note, but our friends will be driving after a week in Paris. Strange that you didn't comment on our itinerary, but preferred to criticize it! :-(

I didn't visit the Champagne region
In Alsace i really think you have to spend a day in Strasbourg. It is a great looking city, an amazing cathedral
On the wine road make sure to stop for a few hours in Riquewihr, great village. Colmar is nice
If you are into castles the Haut Koenigsbourg is great and has a fantastic view.
In Burgundy, Beaune really is the center of the wine road. Make sure to see the Hospices de Beaune.
The Fontenay Abbey is wonderful.
For your friends in the Zdordogne region, Sarlat, laroque gageac, beynac et cazenac, domme are great small towns/villages. Castelnaud lachapelle castle is fantastic.
If they have some time, Rocamadour an hour east, cahors south. St-cirq lapopie might be one if the prettyest villages in France.
Just google these names, you'll want to follow your friends, :-)

Ken,

This would be a bit too fast-paced for me, but I think it hangs together okay, and it does let you cover a lot of ground. (So my personal feelings don't signify, obviously.)

Beaune wold make a dandy base for the Burgundy segment, with lots of wine opportunities both in town and nearby. Check out the tasting lunch in Aloxe Cortone.

You have picked a great time for this trip, have a ball!

Looks like a good plan. Second the idea of not missing Strasbourg. You'll have a blast tasting all Alsacian and Burgundy wines.

Glad you aren't driving right off the plane. My first thought was the same as Carol's. She wasn't criticizing but concerned.

I can only give you an opinion based on research. I'll be there for the first time the first two weeks of May. I'm planning about 10 nights, breaking it up as 5 in Burgundy, 4 in Alsace and 1 in Reims as a loop from Paris. That leaves me another six nights in Paris and/or whatever else seems like a good idea.

For a really short Champagne look, probably just stay in and around Reims and/or Troyes. Reims is probably more on the way to Alsace.

In Alsace, I'd probably start in Strassbourg then see a number of small towns on the way to Colmar.

From there, I think you will do fine staying in and around Beaune for a couple of days. You can catch a train from Beune, which mostly route you through Dijon, or just catch the train in Dijon.

Thanks for all the feedback and suggestions!

Thanks for all the feedback and suggestions!

The route from CDG to Reims/Epernay, Champagne then to Colmar, Alsace and then to Beaune, Burgundy and TGV back to CDG sounds like a lot, but it covers the areas that we really want to visit.

Thanks y'all