Ep. 656 - Bonus Show - Carly's Sailed 35 Cruises. Disney Cruise Line Is Still Her #1. Here's Why

DCL Duo Podcast: A Disney Cruise Line Fan Podcast

Brian Flock

Hobbies, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Leisure

4.9 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

A themepark journalist, and soon-to-be published cookbook author, who's done 35+ cruises across every major line — Holland America, Royal Caribbean, Norwegian, Carnival — just weighed in on who does food best at sea. Her answer? Disney Cruise Line, and it isn't particularly close. This week we welcome Carly (Adventures by Carly), theme park journalist, Attractions Magazine Podcast co-host, and soon-to-be cookbook author, for an over-an-hour bonus episode covering DCL food favorites, ship rankings, fleet speculation, and the origin story of a cookbook built on a 1981 Walt Disney World menu document she found while going down a rabbit hole. In this episode: Her two must-order DCL cocktails — including the Palo balsamic grande martini she insists will change your life, and the Hook's Barbary Old Fashioned she calls the best she's ever had The sea bass and a Lion King chicken skewer on the Disney Destiny that she orders every single time without hesitation Why the Disney Magic and Disney Destiny tied as her all-time favorites — and what it tells us about how much DCL's theming and entertainment has evolved Her dream wishlist for the Disney Believe — including a Pixar Lamplight Lounge concept, Oga's Cantina at Sea, and a new musical dining experience Why Alaska on the Disney Wonder was "the greatest, greatest cruise ever" — and what made a 35-cruise veteran finally not want to get off the ship "If you don't go to Palo and get that at brunch, you are not living your last best life." — Carly You can follow along with Carly's amazing travel and adventures on Instagram, Threads, her website and her podcast. You can also pre-order Carly's forthcoming cookbook, The Unofficial Disney Parks Retro Cookbook, on Amazon. Book your next Disney Cruise Line vacation with our sponsor, My Path Unwinding Travel. Subscribe to DCL Magazine — your ultimate guide to Disney Cruise Line tips and tricks! Use promo code DCLDUO for 10% off at the WDW Magazine store. Stay Connected with DCL Duo: Website | Instagram | Facebook | Facebook Group | Watch on YouTube | Listen on Apple Podcasts We're Ranked as a Top Podcast by Feedspot: Top 30 Disney Cruise Line Podcasts (#1) | Top 20 Cruise Podcasts (#2) | Top Disney Podcasts (#4) | Top 20 Disney Cruise Line Influencers (#12) The views expressed in this podcast are our own and do not reflect the views of the Walt Disney Company, Disney Cruise Line or any other travel provider discussed or mentioned.

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0:00.0	Last year, I did my first Alaskan cruise aboard the Disney Wonder, and that was hands down a life-changing, I think maybe like my favorite vacation of all time, which is kind of crazy, but it's one of those tripsL Duo podcast brought to you by my path unwinding travel.
0:36.0	And Sam, I guess we should also.
0:37.4	This is a bonus episode,
0:38.5	special show. I'm going to give a quick shout out to our friends over at DCL magazine as well.
0:42.7	Love everybody over there. And if you haven't subscribed, you should definitely head to DCL
0:46.9	dashmagine.com today and subscribe. And you can use code DCL Duo, all caps DCL Duo,
0:52.2	take 10% off, everything in their store. But we have such a fabulous
0:56.9	guest tonight. We don't want to waste a second of her time. We want to get right to it. And so we have
1:03.8	a theme park journalist, a podcaster, a published author, book, cookbook author now. Soon to be. I think it comes out in the
1:13.1	coming weeks. Yeah. Just all the things. We love and adore her. And so I'm going to introduce.
1:18.5	A fellow tri-state, tricater. She's, of course, from my rival state from New Jersey. I'm from New York.
1:25.5	But we're so excited. And also my favorite twin
1:28.9	hero mini from the Destiny Christening, we are so excited to welcome to our show for the very first
1:36.9	time. She's known as Adventures by Carly on Instagram and of course on all the socials as well as
1:43.7	on her website. But we are so excited to
1:46.4	welcome to the show, Carly Caramanna. Carly, welcome. Yay. Thank you guys so much. I truly have been
1:53.3	looking forward to this for months. I adore you guys and I've had so much fun with you in the
1:59.4	Disney world and what's better to be
2:01.8	able to talk about it with people that love it just as much as you. Yes, we feel the same way.
2:06.5	We were so lucky. We feel like to get to meet you in person on the destiny, on that preview
2:12.6	cruise and the christening. It's just like so wonderful to be able to meet people in real life who we've like
2:18.5	interacted with online and who share in that love of Disney and share in that theme park love
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