yeah that's what i'm worrying about, wouldn't want jubjub to go berserk on your waifusThere's supposed to be a boat you can board there and it takes you to a door (which won't open until you've met Mabel) which leads to the dlc.
It's not like it takes more than a couple minutes to get to carrol river from the start of the game if you've already beaten it. Crash chamber > rabbit hole > lutwidge > park of fog > upper lutwidge > carrol river. Or you can go through the slaughter house instead of upper lutwidge if you want less progression.
Actually, has anyone checked if dlc 3 affects progression at all? I haven't actually gone there yet without having 10+ progression.
also should you be worry about the red hood encounters? or collecting the fairy tales? or the convenant since some of them got new scenes, can you just skip all that and just enjoys the dlc?