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Dining on the Disney Wish: The Good, the Bad, and the Mediocre
The Food on the Disney Wish The Disney Wish is a part of the newest fleet subset on Disney Cruise Line. This brings more dining options to Disney Cruise Lines and new menu items that are delicious. I was able to go to every included restaurant, tried some DCL staples and ate as much as I could on my six nights on this ship. The Good The filet mignon at 1923 was one of the best items on the cruise ship. It didn’t taste completely mass produced and had a good flavor. The churro
Justin Doolan
16 hours ago3 min read
Steakhouse 71 Review
Steakhouse 71 Review Walt Disney World is home to some great restaurants. Being a pack your lunch family for park days while growing up, we never ate at these restaurants. I didn’t realize how many I missed until I actually started dining out there. There were some incredibly themed, and some very good meals just hiding under my nose while I ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or ate at Cosmic Ray’s for a cheeseburger. The restaurant that really changed my view on Disney r
Justin Doolan
Feb 213 min read
The Cycle of Orlando Theme Park Restaurants
The Cycle of Orlando Theme Park Restaurants Disney World is full of restaurants from the interior of Cinderella Castle to the bottom floor of the Animal Kingdom Lodge. These restaurants have a huge range of quality but a few of my favorites has been taking the same cycle. A fairly repeatable cycle that I have seen in my few years of dining at Disney World. The first restaurant that comes to my mind is the Grand Floridian Café. This was my family’s first try into the world o
Justin Doolan
Feb 206 min read
Ranking the Main Dining Restaurants on the Disney Wish
Disney Wish Main Dining Restaurants Ranked I have now been on the Disney Wish twice with two small weekend cruises. I have eaten at all of their restaurants more than once and I feel like a ranking is possible. With Disney Cruise Line, they deploy a unique dining experience called rotational dining where your table and your servers rotate between a set of three main dining rooms. On the Wish there are Arendelle, 1923, and Worlds of Marvel. They offer three different experie
Justin Doolan
Feb 173 min read
Training for a Half IRONMAN-"The Cheap Way"
My newest hobby is coming with a large price tag. I have just dove into this process for a month and I am inundated with buying decisions. An IRONMAN is something that has never been on my radar, I might add a marathon was never on my radar either until my brother gifted it to me for my birthday. Just so he wouldn’t have to train and do it alone while his wife was pregnant. I never thought I would have loved the training so much. I was the guy to skip the “optional” basketba
Justin Doolan
Feb 75 min read
My New Year's Resolution Progress
How Is MY resolution so far? I love a good new year’s resolution. In 2025 I made around five or ten new resolutions to take into the new year. It ranged from locking in my fitness to playing piano, learning how to market my business daily, improving in chess, budgeting monthly, and learning how to play golf. I tried to insert all of these habits the first of the year and I figured I could hit those easily. As you probably guessed, all of these habits had different levels of s
Justin Doolan
Feb 65 min read
A New Training Goal
Not many things gave me as much satisfaction as running a marathon at the beginning of 2025. I even got emotional, after all of that hard work, I was down to the last half mile with my family beside me running. There was also just something about improving in something. I started out struggling to finish three miles but in six months I was able to push myself across the finish line of a 26.2 mile race. Having that goal pushed me to wake up early to get my long runs in. Stay u
Justin Doolan
Jan 315 min read
2024 vs 2025 vs a Projection of 2026
2024 vs 2025 I can’t believe I am entering 2026 now. It seemed like it was 2016 just a few weeks ago, and now. That is a decade. We are closer to 2050 than 2000 and it just makes me feel icky. The last two years have flown by. 2025 especially has been going at an incredible pace where I had to remind myself to grab my seat before the ride ended. 2024 was one of the most developmental years of my life. In the beginning of 2024, I ballooned up to my heaviest weight of my l
Justin Doolan
Jan 304 min read
Is Epic Universe Worth the Money?
Is Epic Universe Worth the Money I have been to the newest theme park at Universal Orlando Resort over five times now. Some as an invited team member preview and some as a normal guest. This has been the first major Orlando theme park in over 25 years. Safe to say there was some hype surrounding this new theme park, especially in the parkhead communities that I am involved in. I was watching this place get built little by little. From patents being filed to the first dirt b
Justin Doolan
Jan 179 min read
Preparing for the Disney Wish
Preparing for the Disney Wish My first cruise of 2026 was a last-minute booking on the Disney Wish out of Port Canaveral. Booked one month prior to the sailing date, I couldn’t believe there was availability on this three-night sailing. The last cruises I went on in 2025 were on the Liberty of the Seas and the Disney Magic. Two great cruises but on the older side. This will be a jump back into the 2020’s cruise ship style, and on a Disney cruise! I am taking my beautiful fian
Justin Doolan
Jan 165 min read
Trying to Work on Blogs During the Holiday Season...
The Holiday Season in Business I have gotten away from this blog as of late, after a few vacations, finals week for school, catching up at work, and many other responsibilities this venture has fallen far down the list. Let’s catch up on time put in. The last time I checked it was 11/16-11/22. During the week of 11/23-11/29 I put in a total of three hours. Missing my goal by a wide margin, and not improving tiktoks or anything like that. During the week of 11/30-12/6 I pu
Justin Doolan
Jan 102 min read
The Goals of 2026: Starting my 2026 on a Good Note
The Goals of 2026 A new year is always a great time to feel fresh and ready for a new start. Many people start New Year’s Resolutions and if you are like me, add a dozen more resolutions and try to solve every problem all at once. Using the new year as an excuse to make the changes I am looking for in my life. 2024 was one of the best years of my life. It was one of the most productive years of my life where I found out what I liked to do, I trained for a marathon, I maxed
Justin Doolan
Jan 13 min read
Experiencing Epic Universe Again...
Epic Universe I have now gone to the newest park at Universal Orlando Resort for the sixth time since it has been open. I have seen it in many different forms of itself. The first time I went, I was only able to ride two rides, while all of the others were shut down for technical issues when it was time to ride them. I have tried many food options, I have ridden every ride, and I have been able to get a fully realized picture of how this park is. I am extremely blessed to b
Justin Doolan
Dec 31, 20256 min read
My Favorite Vacations of 2025
The Vacations of 2025 I have been lucky enough to be able to travel a few different places this year. I just got off my final trip, which was a ski trip, so now… It is time to rank my vacations on the year. Coming in last was a three-night trip to Sandals Nassau. This was an all-inclusive vacation and was just a worse cruise with less activities. I have been on several cruises in the last few years and my love for it as grown and grown. This was my first all-inclusive exp
Justin Doolan
Dec 30, 20255 min read
My Current Slump and How to Get Out
In a Slump Over the entire month of November and even spilling into December I have been in a slump. My energy levels have been extremely low, no motivation, brain fog, and just a lack of production. It has been showing in almost every facet of my life. My work, this project, my exercise, my hobbies, my diet, cleaning up the house, my finances and my relationship have been in a small slump of complacency. Even anxiety has once again started to show its ugly head. In a slump t
Justin Doolan
Dec 26, 20258 min read
A Scrolling Addiction
Phone Addiction When I got my first cell phone in seventh grade, it was something that became attached to my hip from the very start. I would send hundreds of text messages a day, and it would always be close by. This phone was the LG ENV Touch, and extremely basic compared to the supercomputer that we have access to today. I used that phone for texting, calling, and basic internet searches. The IPOD Touch was much better than the LG ENV at going on the internet. Fifteen
Justin Doolan
Dec 20, 20258 min read
Sailing on the Liberty of the Seas
Liberty of the Seas Review The Liberty of the Seas launched in 2007 as a Freedom-Class ship. This was before the mega ships of the Oasis class, and definitely before the Icon class. I just went on the Disney Magic a month before this ship, so it was fun to see the difference between a 20-year-old Disney ship, and a 20-year-old Royal Caribbean ship. Embarkation We went on a weekend cruise out of Lauderdale in
Justin Doolan
Dec 19, 20254 min read
Ranking the Cruises of 2025
My 2025 Cruise List 2025 has been a great cruising year. I have been lucky enough to go on five cruises, all with their positives and negatives but I think it is enough to rank. Back in 2016-2022, if you told me I would be going on five cruises in a single year, I wouldn’t have believed you. I have been extremely blessed to enjoy this many vacations and I have loved all of them in their own way. I have cruised so much that my favorite cruise line is solidified, I got to tra
Justin Doolan
Dec 17, 20256 min read
Building a Business Chapter 11/16/25-11/22/25
This week in business 11/16-11/22 The week that just passed was a great week to get back ahead of things. I had pushed myself into the tiktok world once again and was very consistent in posts. I still have about two and a half weeks of posts to go through before I completely run out of reserves. I still have plenty of past events to go through, and two trips coming up soon. I feel strong about where I am. I got a lead from one of my family members that a person might need
Justin Doolan
Dec 13, 20254 min read
The Port of Fort Lauderdale
Cruising out of Fort Lauderdale At the end of November, I went on the Liberty of the Seas for a weekend getaway out of Fort Lauderdale. I have been on a cruise out of Seattle, Port Canaveral, Miami, and now out of Lauderdale. Without a second of hesitation, I want this cruise to be the last one out of Lauderdale. I am from Orlando so anytime I want to go on a cruise, I travel an hour to Canaveral and jump aboard with a total time of about an hour and a half from my house
Justin Doolan
Dec 12, 20253 min read
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