Le N°3 par Champagne Thiénot

Le N°3 par Champagne Thiénot

On rue du Marc, a quiet pedestrian lane in the historic center of Reims, sits a hotel built inside a champagne house. Le N°3 par Champagne Thiénot belongs to the Thiénot family, who founded their champagne house in 1985 and now run it through the founder's children, Garance and Stanislas. The hotel itself has just thirteen rooms and one suite, designed by architect Loïc Thiénot, set around a courtyard garden. Guests here get something no other hotel in Reims offers: entry to the Thiénot family's own historic cellars for an immersive tour and tasting, followed by an evening at the rooftop champagne bar with its view over the city's roofs. That cellar access is the reason Le N°3 is the only hotel in the region admitted to Small Luxury Hotels of the World. Rooms move up from a 22 square metre Cosy room looking onto the garden to an Executive room with its own balcony, and a 60 square metre suite with a private terrace. A concierge, laundry and dry-cleaning service, and a restaurant serving breakfast cover daily needs; parking runs 25 euros a day and pets are not allowed. Wheelchair access is provided throughout. This suits a traveler who has come to Reims for champagne itself and doesn't need a large lobby or a resort's worth of facilities to feel looked after. It will feel too quiet and too small for anyone wanting nightlife beyond one bar or the anonymity of a bigger property. Check-in is at 3pm, checkout at noon. The thirteen rooms are the base; the cellars are the reason to book. A boutique hotel with thirteen rooms built inside the Thiénot family's champagne house in central Reims, with direct access to the historic cellars and a rooftop bar over the city's rooftops. It suits travelers visiting for champagne itself, not those wanting resort-scale facilities.