For forty years, the holiday voucher has enabled workers to finance their leisure expenses with tourism professionals in France.
Nights at the hotel, admission to the museum, transport tickets, toll tickets...
Le Figaro
takes stock of what it is possible to afford with holiday vouchers.
What brands take holiday vouchers?
Each year, 4.5 million employees and civil servants take advantage of this method of payment governed by the National Holiday Checks Agency (ANCV).
Businesses and public services can offer these checks to their employees, but are not required to do so.
Financed either entirely by the employer, or jointly by the employee and the employer, it comes in two forms: paper checks worth 10 euros, 20 euros, 25 euros or 50 euros, or the dematerialized via the ANCV Chèque-Vacances application.
Holiday vouchers remain valid for two years after their date of issue and are nominative.
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200,000 tourist establishments in France accept holiday vouchers, in mainland France and overseas.
These are places of accommodation (hotels, lodges, holiday villages), museums, monuments, amusement parks or even restaurants.
In ski resorts, some winter sports equipment rental companies also accept them, as do car rental companies and most cinemas.
For example, Disneyland Paris, Futuroscope, Gaumont cinemas, Hertz car rental agencies, the Arc de Triomphe monument in Paris or the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations ( Mucem) in Marseille are all establishments that accept holiday vouchers.
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The complete list of these places is available via a search engine on the ANCV website.
Establishments that accept holiday vouchers are also recognizable by the ANCV logo, often displayed on their website or storefront.
It should be noted that only 30,000 establishments in France accept the dematerialized format, always for payments of at least 20 euros.
The list of places that accept electronic holiday vouchers is available on a dedicated page on the ANCV website.
Can the toll be paid with holiday vouchers?
It is possible to pay for passage at the motorway toll with a holiday voucher.
However, you must first credit the sum of your check to an online account, called “
Libert-T Vacances
”.
This requires creating an account with one of the four motorway companies.
You must then indicate online the amount to be credited, the holiday voucher number and the beneficiary's postal address.
An electronic toll badge credited with the amount indicated is then sent to the residence of the beneficiary of the holiday voucher, ready for use.
Since 2013, it is no longer possible to use holiday vouchers directly at the toll gates.
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Does the SNCF accept holiday vouchers?
It is possible to use holiday vouchers to pay for train tickets with the SNCF, in particular directly at a station ticket office.
Since May 2022, it has also been possible to use them to buy a ticket online on the SNCF Connect website and application.
In this case, however, the holiday vouchers must first be converted.
The procedure for converting classic fares is explained on the SNCF Connect website.
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Can we pay
for a plane ticket with holiday vouchers?
Plane tickets can also be purchased with holiday vouchers from certain airlines and travel agencies.
As in the case of train tickets, the sum of the holiday vouchers must first be converted into credit with a company.
The procedures for doing so vary depending on the company or agency.
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Train and plane tickets purchased using holiday vouchers can only be used for travel within the European Union.
In addition, tickets can only be purchased with a holiday voucher if they are ordered from a French company or agency.
Holiday vouchers are not valid with foreign companies.
Air France-KLM indicates that it accepts this method of payment.