France Luxury Travel Review: Reims, Wine Tours, 1-Week Vacation

We would like to understand if we could save money by getting a smaller hotel room or where the money went overall. Some of the rooms didn't need to be so big since we were hardly there. Since they knew we were going for wine, we would have also liked to understand the shipping back to the states would save you VAT (20%) off the bottle, than if you kept it from the store there. Some of the ins and outs FAQs would be good to know before you go.