French petrol stations you can pay in cash?

beckstar1975

Hello - does anyone know if you can still pay at major petrol stations in France with cash (ie autoroutes or attached to supermarkets/hypermarkets?)

Many thanks

Rebecca

hollydays

Only when they are open I guess.you'd be best to look at a particular route and check out which ones are on it. Supermarkets can be closed Sundays and Mondays in France

zagfles

Yes the petrol stations aren't usually manned 24/7, but there is usually a pay booth during normal working hours where you can pay in cash. Outside hours it's usually card only.

Use supermarkets, they are much cheaper than normal petrol stations.

PeteDoff

hollydays wrote: »

Only when they are open I guess.you'd be best to look at a particular route and check out which ones are on it. Supermarkets can be closed Sundays and Mondays in France

Don't know about Mondays, not in this area none of them are closed.
Lunchtimes, that can be quite another matter with the smaller ones.

hollydays

I should have said lots of shops close on Mondays.
Not so much supermarkets.

martindow

If petrol stations are unmanned and card only you could always try asking someone to pay with their card and then you pay them cash.

personpeople

martindow wrote: »

If petrol stations are unmanned and card only you could always try asking someone to pay with their card and then you pay them cash.

That may require a certain knowledge of the French language, and a compliant helpful person.

Many years ago CB was the only accepted cards in a lot of these places.

Obviously_the_best

Most cards can be accepted. I'd be more wary of toll booths. I went through 2 unmanned ones where the cash acceptor was out of action last week.

PeteDoff

personpeople wrote: »

That may require a compliant helpful person.

Which of course rules out most French

PeteDoff

Obviously_the_best wrote: »

Most cards can be accepted. I'd be more wary of toll booths. I went through 2 unmanned ones where the cash acceptor was out of action last week.

And don't stand there for 5 mins like my girlfriend trying to dump all her small coins in, THEY DON'T ACCEPT THEM (but she wouldn't be told).