Those that have been to Disney Land Paris

[lisad123]

We are taking the girls to Disneyland in Sept but have seen on their website I need a letter of dx from health proffessinal to get the exit passes.
Does anyone know how much info they need and wether a letter from health visitor would be enough or needs to be GP?
Rang GP and they want from £15 up to write a letter for me! They don't know the girls at all as most of the girls stuff is via Pead or other proffessionals involved in their care.

I have a good friend who's a HV and could ask her to do letter on headed paper.
What's peoples experience

Can you not just show the Dx report?

Hi, we do disney every year with our dd who has autism, i don't think health visitors letter will do. We always suck it up and pay the £15 for a letter from the GP, the letter needs to state the nature of disability and how it impacts, e.g.; we always have that dd can't queue or wait for long.
if you have a blue badge that will also do as proof. Hope you have a lovely time.

We went last yer, got DS2s paed to do a letter though (he is lovely and didn't mind).

Went along the lines of: DS2 gets very anxious when queueing, danger to himself, panick attacks etc.

If it is on NHS headed paper and signed by a HCP I should think would be ok.

I found 3 with Down syndrome and 1 DS in wheelchair no evidence required may have been lucky, hope you have a brilliant time. We as miserable old farts enjoyed it naver mind the kids!

We went last month and were told that we did need a recent letter and that they had tightened up on the rules. Our diagnosis letter was 2 yrs old so we paid £10 for a letter from our GP which literally just stated he had ASD and that he was unable to queue. We took our diagnosis letter as well (and DLA but they weren't interested in that) and showed it to the staff in City Hall and there was no problem in getting an exit pass for all of us.

One thing I would say, especially as you are going out of peak season (although if you are there at a weekend it will still be busy) is that sometimes it is not worth using the exit passes. Each ride has its own rules on how they work which was a little confusing to begin with. They have rules on how many people with disabilities can ride on a particular ride at any one time. In some cases, they only allow one party with a disability to go on a ride and then the next party have to wait until they had completed the ride before they could go on. If there are a lot of people with disabilities in front of you, that can mean a long wait even with the exit pass. I guess part of it is because if you have people with limited mobility/understanding you don't want loads of them on a ride at the same time if it goes wrong and you have to get them off. At one of the rides they told us to take a ticket and come back in 20 mins but the normal queue for the ride was only 10 minutes. Also some of the queues have fun things to see in them so we always looked at the queue length first before deciding whether to use the exit passes or not. DS1 will queue for short periods of time, especially if the queue is moving (albeit slowly).

I keep meaning to write a proper trip report on tripadvisor as the forum there gave me some good advice before we went but if there is anything else you would like to know fire away.

We went Feb this year. Dd has no dx as yet. We took a few letters from pead one dated a year ago and one dated 2 months ago that explained she doesn't like busy places and struggles with communication. Also took her dla letter and I highlighted the dates er are awarded it until