Uber Is Introducing New Champagne, Boat Experiences in France This Summer season

The Paris Olympics are virtually right here, and Uber is able to have a good time with a pair of latest experiences permitting riders to toast their manner by way of France and trip alongside the Seine on a free boat tour.

To start out, the rideshare firm is gearing as much as carry vacationers from Paris to Epernay this summer time — the epicenter of French Champagne — for unique excursions of a number of the finest Champagne homes, Uber informed Journey + Leisure. The expertise, known as Uber Bubbles, is obtainable to guide beginning June 1 and will probably be supplied on Fridays and Saturdays from June 7 to Aug. 17.

And the most effective information is your complete journey will solely price €200 ($216.96) for as much as 4 friends.

“With greater than 15 [million] guests anticipated in Paris this summer time, we wished to curate a seamless day journey from Paris to flee the frenzy and luxuriate in one of the crucial iconic areas in France,” Laureline Serieys, the overall supervisor of Uber France, informed T+L. “With Uber Bubbles, we’re placing the center of France’s champagne area at your fingertips.”

Vacationers who guide the day journey will probably be picked up in an Uber Bubbles-branded Tesla and brought to lunch on the Perrier-Jouët Cellier Belle Epoque in Epernay the place they will feast on dishes like crab and curry beignets and Caesar salad with tarragon fried rooster together with a tasting of three cuvées. After, they’ll head over to Maison G.H. Mumm in Reims for a go to to the cellar and Cordon Rouge tasting earlier than being pushed again to Paris.

François-Xavier Morizot, the VP Champagne for G.H. Mumm and Perrier-Jouët, informed T+L the journey was the “excellent alternative for vacationers to take pleasure in the easiest of our ‘bubbly’ experiences, together with our lovely cuvees, elevated gastronomy, and distinctive grounds.”

The expertise should be booked no less than 24 hours prematurely and could be booked as much as 90 days earlier than. To order, Champagne followers can choose the “Uber Bubbles” icon on the house display screen and select an out there date. Vacationers will then enter their pickup and dropoff places.

Uber may also make sightseeing in Paris simpler by providing free one hour excursions on fully-electric boats alongside the Seine. The expertise will probably be known as Uber Cruise and represents the first-ever Uber boat excursions in Paris, the corporate informed T+L.

The boat excursions are anticipated to launch in mid-July.

The brand new experiences kick off simply as vacationers are anticipated to flock to Paris in droves for the Summer season Olympics. The opening ceremony begins on July 26.

And to make journey to and from the airport throughout the Video games only a bit smoother, the rideshare firm may also designate particular pickup and drop-off places all through the town and at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG).