ShipCritic Blog is a labor of love by Anne Campbell, a journalist who has been covering the cruise industry since 1993. Why a blog? This newfangled technology is the best way of interacting with cruisers, both first timers and veterans, who also share a passion for seeing the world by ship.
Campbell is co-founder and past editor-in-chief of both CruiseMates (1999-2006) and Cruise Critic (1995-1999). Prior to that, she authored Fielding’s Guide To Worldwide Cruises (1994, 1995 editions). As a journalist she has cruised to every continent on earth including Antarctica on vessels ranging from the tiniest vessel to the largest mega-ships, tall ships, expedition vessels, riverboats and even a self-drive houseboat. As an expert on the cruise industry, she has been interviewed by major publications such as The New York Times, Wall St. Journal, USA Today, Travel and Leisure and Money Magazine, among others. Campbell has been interviewed by CNN, Good Morning America and appeared on numerous ship documentaries.
How did someone from Corning, NY, (pop. 12,000) become a cruise expert? Start with a wanderlust for travel and toss in a first job at Cunard Line she got through a blind ad in The New York Times. The glamorous QE 2 really was “The Greatest Ship In the World,” she says, and Anne was suddenly meeting celebrities like Salvador Dali and Julie
Andrews. She became enraptured with the operations of the then-enormous vessel, hanging out with the ship’s hotel manager, chef and surgeon every eleven days when QE 2 docked in New York. “Some of the older Cunard reservations agents still referred to passengers as ‘souls’,” she recalls. Anne’s favorite cruising regions are the Greek Islands, the Baltic and Antarctica.
She resides in New York with Mickey, her Shit-tzu puppy.
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