If you go on vacation once a year, you can get a very advantageous reduction at the SNCF, up to half price on the purchase of a round-trip TGV Inoui, Intercités or TER train ticket. Here is which ticket to buy and the procedure to follow.
To go on vacation, many people turn to the car, thinking that public transport is too expensive at a certain time of the year. However, at the SNCF, there is a train ticket, which few travelers know about. It allows you to save a lot of money on the price of a 2nd class rail travel, round trip, whether it’s a journey with a TGV Inoui, Intercités or TER. The amount of the reduction can range up to 50% off if you are traveling together. Here’s how.
What is the SNCF ticket that allows you to have a -50% reduction?
It’s about annual leave ticket of the SNCF. This offer provides once a year per person a reduction of -25% guaranteed on a return train journey of at least 200 kilometers. Travel must be completed within 61 days of the outward journey departure date. If you are going with one of your relatives, the discount eventually goes to -50%because it can also apply to the person traveling with you, and with whom you are related.
Who can benefit from the SNCF annual leave ticket?
The Annual Leave rate, offered by the SNCF, is aimed at several categories of people, without income conditions:
- Employees
- Employees in early retirement
- Vocational training trainees
- home workers
- Craftsmen
- Farmers
- job seekers
- Pensioners
- Pre-retirees and retirees
- Beneficiaries
- War orphans and widows
How to get the SNCF annual leave ticket?
To obtain the SNCF annual leave ticket, the request can be made online or from an approved travel agency. Online, you must download and complete the “annual leave ticket” form. On this document, you must show your routesyour departure and arrival station, your companions if you have some. Finally, must include your employer’s signature or stamp or the organization certifying your status.
“If the applicant cannot submit the duly stamped form, he must provide a sworn statement that he is in one of the above cases and that he can benefit from the annual leave rate”details the SNCF.
Once the form is completed, go to TOUTOUI chatbot from the SNCF, via this linkclick on “buy an Annual Leave ticket”, then on “request an annual leave ticket”. Submit a scanned copy of your formand as soon as the document has been submitted by email, you can reach a teleconsultant by telephone on 36 35 (8 a.m. to 8 p.m., free service + cost of a call) to book your train tickets and benefit from the reduction.