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3. Write thank you cards

Tiana Hugging Little girl

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This is a seriously cool practice that many veteran guests make a regular part of their Walt Disney World vacation. The next time you visit Walt Disney World, bring a few thank you cards! Some families even have special cards made up with a family vacation picture and a basic note written ahead of time.

There are any number of cool opportunities where you could surprise someone with a thank you card at Disney. The most obvious place is thanking Cast Members who make your day extra magical. You can leave one for the Mousekeeping staff at your resort or with the bill at a table service restaurant after you leave that server a great tip. You could even give them to another guest who shows you a random act of kindness. So many people don’t write thank you cards anymore, you seriously can’t go wrong having a few on hand.

4. Pay for someone’s meal or snack

3 Girls Eating at Epcot Food and Wine Fest

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One of the favorite practices of people who have caught the “Pay It Forward” fever is to sometimes pay for someone else’s meal, coffee, or snack. It takes a polite, warm personality and a good sense of timing to pull this off. For the men, you don’t want to come off as creepy by insisting to buy a drink for a single girl who might doubt your intentions. Use discretion and don’t force it. Look and listen for natural opportunities to make someone else’s day brighter by paying for something small, and don’t be high-handed and weird about it. Just offer kindly, and don’t require anything of them—no lingering around for obligatory conversation if they just want to get on with their day. This is such a cool blessing when it happens and you realize the person seriously did it purely as a random act of kindness.

If you’re on the Disney dining plan, you have a natural way to pull this off without the awkwardness of trying to stealth-pick-up a bill or fumble with a credit card—offer to buy something for the next person in line using your snack or quick service credits! Unless you eat like a Super Saiyan, you probably will have a few to spare at the end of your trip. It’s a crazy easy way to make someone’s day magical.

 
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