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Ten vineyard trips, six food tours, nothing afloat

Lyon's shelf divides at the city limit. Eleven of the 24 tours we list leave town, and ten of those head for vineyards: six to Beaujolais, three to the northern Rhône, one to Burgundy. The eleventh is a day at Annecy and its lake. Eight of the eleven are half-days of four to four and a quarter hours, priced €99 to €230; the three longer trips run six hours at €159 and eight hours at €382 and €490. The word private appears in six titles, from €125 to €490, and the four dearest of those all leave the city. Wine or a wine region is named in twelve of the 24 titles; across the page the median tour lasts four hours and costs €103.50.

The thirteen that stay in Lyon lean on eating. Six are food-led: four tasting walks at €89 to €108, mostly three and a half hours, plus a market-and-cooking-class day at €308 and a pastry workshop at €127. Those six hold 2,542 of the page's 4,722 reviews, against 1,046 for everything that leaves. The other seven come cheaper — two traboule walks at €45 and €125, a walking tour at €34.35, two electric bike rides at €35 and €55, a sommelier's blind tasting at €99, and a 90-minute hop-on-hop-off bus at €25, the only listing rated below 4.5. Nothing here is built on Fourvière, the Roman theatres or a museum, and in a city at the meeting of two rivers, nothing goes on the water.

What to know before you book in Lyon

No listing on this page includes museum entry, so those visits are yours to arrange and the weekday matters more than the queue. The fine-arts museum normally closes on Tuesdays and opens later on Fridays. Lugdunum's museum normally closes on Mondays and opens later on weekdays, and its Roman theatres run to a separate schedule, so check both before you plan the hill.

Gadagne normally opens Wednesday to Sunday and holds two collections, city history and puppetry; pick one and check last admission rather than assuming both fit a short stop. The cinema and miniature museum sells more than one ticket option, and an in-depth cinema visit needs more time than a highlights route. What a paid tour buys here is a guide or a car to the vineyards. All 24 cancel free, and the four under €50 are on foot, by bike or on the bus.

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Quick answers

Is a wine day trip from Lyon worth booking?

Ten of our 24 listings are vineyard trips, so it is what this page is mostly built for: six to Beaujolais, three to the northern Rhône and one to Burgundy. Eight of the ten are half-days of four to four and a quarter hours at €99 to €230, which leaves you the rest of the day in the city. Only two take a full day, at €159 for six hours and €490 for eight. Every one of them cancels free.

Which Lyon food tour should I book?

Six of the thirteen in-city listings are food-led, and four of those are tasting walks. Three run three and a half hours, at €95, €99 and €108, and the fourth takes four hours with lunch at €89. All four are rated 4.9 and they hold 2,424 reviews between them, so the choice comes down to the hour and the price. If you would rather cook, there is a three-hour pastry workshop at €127 and a market tour with a cooking class and lunch at €308.

Which days should I keep free for Lyon's museums?

Not Tuesday for the fine-arts museum, which normally closes that day and opens later on Fridays, and not Monday for Lugdunum, whose museum normally closes then and opens later on weekdays; its Roman theatres keep a separate schedule. Gadagne normally opens Wednesday to Sunday, so an early-week arrival rules it out. None of our 24 listings includes a museum, so no booking on this page depends on getting those days right, but your own plan does.

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