Canara Bank Holiday Home Booking Guideline
The Canara Bank offers Holiday Home booking services for their customers. They have a guideline on how to use the application form and list of holiday homes that are available for booking.
The Bank has a Guideline on how to fill in the Application Form Download PDF and what documents are needed to apply for a holiday home. They also have a List of all the Holiday Homes that are available for booking.
1. Who can avail the facility?
(a) Employees visiting the places (on LFC/Leave/Holidays) and their dependents and close relatives eligible for reimbursement under Leave Fare Concession (LFC), when they accompany the employees.
(b) Ex-employees retired on superannuation and their dependents.
2. When it can be availed?
(a) The facility can be availed while proceeding on LFC
(b) It can also be availed while proceeding on Leave/Holiday without LFC
3. How long can Employees stay?
(a) Normal duration of Stay is upto 3 to 5 days. However, booking would be for a maximum of 5 days advance.
(b) Can stay for more than 5 days but not exceeding 10 days, if the rooms are available.
4. Norm for allotment of rooms :
Employees can book only one room per family as per norm. However, if additional rooms are available on visit, the same could be considered on request.
5. How many accommodated in a room ?
(a) Not to exceed 4 persons (2 adults and 2 children) in a double bed room.
(b) Age limit for children – up to and including 12 years.
6. Eligibility for advance booking:
(a) For Employees proceeding on LFC, Advance Booking is permitted for a period not exceeding 3 months.
(b) Employees proceeding on leave and employees retired on superannuation can book one month in advance.
(c) Other things being equal, employees availing LFC will have preference over others.
(d) Advance booking is on first cum first serve basis.
7. Canara Bank Holiday Home Booking Procedure:
(a) The booking should be in a definite prescribed format furnished in Annexure II with a certificate from the forwarding branch to the overseeing branch / office.
(b) Salary drawing branch of the employee/pension drawing branch or the branch where the retired employee is having account is the forwarding branch.
(c) While forwarding the request, rental amount is to be kept in Sundry Liabilities accounts payable – “Holiday Home Account” with details of employee.
(d) On confirmation of booking from overseeing branch/office, amount in Sundry Liabilities is to be reversed and branch advice sent to overseeing branch/office; excess amount if any is to be refunded to the employee.
(e) If the rooms are not booked by the overseeing branch/office the amount kept in Sundry Liabilities is to be refunded to the employee, on receipt of information about non-booking.
8. What about check in checkout facility?
(a) 24 hours checkin-checkout facility
(b) Part of the day is considered as full day.
9. Booking Cancellation Procedure:
(a) If booking is cancelled by the employees on receiving confirmation of booking from overseeing branch/office, room rent will not be refunded.
(b) Appropriation of rent towards accommodation for any other period is also not permitted.
10. When not booked in advance :
(a) Rooms if available only can be allotted when visited by employees/retired employees without booking.
(b) Caretaker/Hotelier may be authorised by the overseeing branch/office to allot the rooms when branch/office is closed. However, identify card/letter should be produced by the concerned and payment should be made by way of Demand Draft favoring “Canara Bank Account – Holiday Home”. If by chance cash is paid, proper receipt should be obtained from the caretaker.
11. Rental structure:
(i) For employees and dependents eligible for reimbursement under LFC rules.
The rental structure of Holiday Homes has been rationalised with effect from 1st April 2003 as under:
(a) Rs.30/- (Rupees Thirty only) per individual per day
(b) Rs.50/- (Rupees Fifty only) per family per day per room provided with upto 2beds
(c) Rs.60/- (Rupees Sixty only) per family per day per room with more than 2 beds.
The above uniform rent would facilitate our employees to send Branch Advice for the correct amount to the overseeing branch/office.
(ii) For dependents / close relatives not eligible for reimbursement under LFC rules.
(a) In respect of Holiday Homes housed in bank’s own buildings, 2 times the rentals applicable to employees.
(b) In respect of Holiday Homes housed in leased outfits, 2 times the rentals applicable to employees.
(c) In respect of Holiday Homes housed in hotels/YMCA, the actuals paid by the Bank.
12. Catering facility :
Catering facilities are available at Holiday Homes housed in hotels and also in many other Holiday homes. Wherever catering services are available, room rent is exclusive of food and beverage charges.
13. Responsibility of employees :
(a) Employees, during their stay at Holiday Home, should maintain utmost discipline and decorum. Employees will be held personally liable for any misuse of the facilities provided and damage cause to the property of the Bank.
(b) Employees should take care of their personal belongings and Bank will not be liable for any loss/damage caused to person or property during their stay at the Holiday Home.
(c) Employees availing Holiday Home facility may record their suggestions/complaints/ compliments, if any, in the register provided at the Holiday Homes.
List of Canara Bank Holiday Homes 
- Agra
- Bengaluru
- Bhubaneshwar
- Chennai
- Darjeeling
- Delhi
- Goa
- Guruvayur
- Haridwar
- Hyderabad
- Jaipur
- Kanyakumari
- Katra
- Kodaikanal
- Kolkata
- Kolkata II
- Lonavala
- Madikeri
- Madurai
- Mahabaleshwar
- Manali
- Mangaluru
- Mount Abu
- Mumbai
- Munnar
- Mussoorie
- Mysuru
- Nainital
- Ooty
- Palani
- Port Blair
- Puri
- Rameswaram
- Shimla
- Shirdi
- Shirdi II
- Srirangam
- Tirupati
- Tirupati II
- Trivandrum
- Udaipur
- Varanasi
- Visakhapatnam