The Disneyland Paris Easy Access Card: what ALD guests need to know

The Disneyland Paris Easy Access Card is for people with a recognized ALD (a long-term condition recognized by the French health system). It makes rides easier to access, but through a time slot, not right away. In practice, you don’t stand in the standby line: a Cast Member gives you a return time, you wait somewhere else, then you come back.

Don’t confuse it with the Priority Card, which is for people with a recognized disability (a CMI, France’s official disability card, or a disability card) and also covers shows, character meet and greets, restaurants, and stores. The Easy Access Card applies to rides only.

If you want an overview of every accessibility program at the park, I’ll point you to my complete accessibility guide. Here, I focus only on the Easy Access Card: who qualifies, how it works, and which documents to prepare.

The Easy Access Card works with a return-time booklet. At the ride entrance, you show your card and booklet to a Cast Member. They work out a return time based on the current wait and write it down for you. You’re then free to wait elsewhere, take a break, or enjoy another area of the park.

At the time you were given, you come back and enter the ride through a separate entrance, usually the ride’s exit.

Two things really matter. First, it doesn’t let you skip the line: your access is delayed, not instant. The time slot roughly matches how long you would have waited in line, just without standing in it. Second, you can only hold one return time at a time: until your current slot has passed, you can’t get a second one.

The Easy Access Card applies to rides only. It gives you nothing for character meet and greets, shows, or parades, or at restaurant and store checkouts. Those perks belong to the Priority Card.

As for companions, the Easy Access Card lets the cardholder bring up to 4 people on rides. Kids under 3 count as companions. And if the cardholder skips a ride, their companions use the main line.

The Easy Access Card is only for people with one of the 30 long-term conditions (the ALD 30 list from France’s Ministry of Health). That is what qualifies you, not a disability recognition in the usual sense. If you have a CMI (France’s official disability card) or a disability card, the Priority Card is the one to look at.

Good to know: your certificate doesn’t have to say which ALD you have. It only needs to confirm that you have a long-term condition from the list of 30 recognized in France, so your medical privacy is protected. It’s up to you to check beforehand that your condition is on that list. Here it is, with the official numbers, and you can also find it on the French national health insurance website (ameli.fr):

Neither fibromyalgia nor endometriosis is on the list of 30 ALDs, the only list Disneyland Paris recognizes for the Easy Access Card. Even though both conditions can be very disabling, they don’t appear under any number. In some cases, the French national health insurance may cover them as ALD 31 (known as "off-list"), assessed case by case.

But the park relies on the list of 30 ALDs. An ALD 31 recognition (the off-list kind) isn’t on it, so eligibility isn’t guaranteed and has to be checked at the desk.

An RQTH (France’s official recognition as a disabled worker) on its own doesn’t qualify you for the Easy Access Card (which is reserved for ALDs) or for the Priority Card (which requires a document proving a permanent disability, such as the CMI).

Just one medical document matters for the Easy Access Card, and it has to meet some very specific requirements.

As for how long it’s valid, the official guide doesn’t give an exact figure. In practice, the card is good for the length of your stay (or the dates your ticket is valid). For annual passholders, it can be matched to the dates of the Pass, as long as you request it at the desk for annual passholders.

I don’t want to promise anything on this one, so ask the desk staff how long yours will last when you apply.

People often mix up these two cards, even though they’re meant for different guests and don’t give the same benefits. Here’s a quick comparison. For everything about the Priority Card (documents, color dots, how it works), see the Priority Card.