For 11 straight years, Cruise Specialists’ founder Janet Lanterman has earned Condé Nast Traveler magazine’s top pick as the travel specialist to turn to when planning a world cruise. Lanterman has once again been recognized for her world cruise expertise on Consumer News Editor Wendy Perrin’s prestigious list of the world’s Top 135 Top Travel Specialists.
For the eleventh year Perrin picked the travel specialists who offer the best blend of expertise, access, and good value. Cruise Specialists’ Lanterman was recommended for readers to call when planning a world cruise because of her longtime industry insider’s guidance, knowledge of Holland America, Princess and Regent Seven Seas, and ability to arrange unique private shore excursions for their guests in destinations around the world.
Travel Leaders Group (parent company of Cruise Specialists) has held their top ten ranking for the second year in a row in Travel Weekly’s 2010 Power List of the industry’s top travel sellers.
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Cruise Specialists Cares shore tour program is an opportunity to give back to those in need during your next cruise voyage. In this video Cruise Specialists guests aboard Holland America World cruise visited the SOS Children’s Village from the port of Durban, South Africa. Donations included everything from toys to the shirts off our client’s backs. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed meeting these smiling wonderful children. Cruise Specialists Cares is part of Cruise Specialists exclusive Shore Tour Program, for more information visit our Custom Shore Excursions page.
After reading our cruise reporter, Ralph Grizzle’s report of his experience on the new NCL Epic, I wasn’t sure what I would think about the boxy, noisy ship. My experience was a calmer one, and I found the ship to be fun, exciting, and beautifully decorated with excellent service, cuisine and entertainment.
The ship has attractive glass, photography, paintings, and murals throughout the vessel.
During our recent trip aboard Holland America Line’s fabulous Polynesian Paradise & Incan Empires 63–day cruise we spent a fabulous day in Costa Rica. Encouraged by our experienced and enthusiastic group member, Sharron Hiebert, four other adventuresome Cruise Specialists
Aerial Tram Ride Up
passengers set out on a truly marvelous day Zip Lining through the rain forests of Costa Rica.
Our staff and clients have traveled to some pretty amazing places around the world which sparked us to create a fun trivia contest asking our well-traveled community to play along and put their geography skills to the test. Each week, the Cruise Specialists team displays a photo of a unique landmark or interesting destination taken somewhere in the world on our Web site, and asks our guests to guess the mystery location.
