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Goldring Travel August 29, 2017

Many of my readers have positively commented on my recent articles about my less than stellar cruise on the Regent Seven Seas Voyager on August 1, 2017. The comments were split evenly between my observations and the attacks upon my integrity by a Cruise Critic and Regent Seven Seas Cruises cheerleader when making those observations.

The “Crazy” Cheerleaders Like TravelCat2 on Cruise Critic – Why You Can’t Blindly Trust What is Posted There

Goldring Travel August 17, 2017

Over the past two weeks I wrote a number of detailed articles about my August 1, 2017 cruise on the Regent Seven Seas Voyager. (You can read my article, which links to the others: Goldring Travel Revisits Regent Seven Seas Cruises (Seven Seas Voyager: August 1, 2017) – Caveat Emptor! Consistently Inconsistent: Not a “Six

Cruise “Journalism” – Cruise Critic and Skift Articles on Seabourn and Fathom Feed Those Seeking Negativism…Not News

Goldring Travel January 26, 2016

Note: Immediately after originally posting this article, Dennis Schall, Skift News Editor, chose to engage in an infantile Twitter war with his first response being “@GoldringTravel nattering nabobs of negativism, not us.” and then, “@GoldringTravel I was just quoting you Spiro Agnew…” Obviously when a publication immediately goes to infantile name-calling, it speaks volumes as

Double Standards – Why Was Regent’s Sanitation Failure Buried and Now Downplayed (When Silversea Problems Were Highly Publicized)?

Goldring Travel August 31, 2013

I am baffled as to how Goldring Travel seemingly was the first outlet publishing that the Regent Seven Seas Navigator significantly failed its Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Inspection. On August 26, 2013 I wrote the article: Regent Seven Seas Navigator Fails CDC Inspection on June 16, 2013 – Why Was This Not Reported? Regent

You Say What? The 2013 Cruise Critic Cruisers Choice Awards: Money Can Buy You Love, Can’t It?

Goldring Travel February 27, 2013

This morning I awoke to a CNN headline about Regent Seven Seas Cruises having won a Cruise Critic award for best shore excursions. I thought it must be part of that weird dream you have right before you wake up. But no: It was the Cruise Critic Cruisers Choice Awards. Not so ironically, this morning

Federal Judge Finds TripAdvisor List To Be “Unverifiable Rhetorical Hyperbole”

Goldring Travel October 8, 2012

I am not a fan of Cruise Critic or its sister site, TripAdvisor, because those sites posture themselves as bastions of accurate information when, in fact, they are depositories for a huge amount of misinformation and skewed perspectives…not accurate facts. Now a federal court judge has issued an opinion consistent with my opinion. So if

Perspective: Seabourn and Cruise Critic Divas…Not So Perfect Together.

Goldring Travel June 24, 2011

Once again, I admit that like a moth drawn to a flame, I took a look at Cruise Critic to see what the 0.1% of all Seabourn guests are saying. I did this because the other day one of my clients said, “I was looking on Cruise Critic for the answer and what they were

Use Caution When Reading Cruise Critic – Self-Importance Rather Than Substance Is The Rule! (Crystal and Seabourn Examples)

Goldring Travel April 26, 2011

I am not quite finished with my review of my experiences on the April 17, 2011 cruise of the Crystal Symphony, but last night I wandered over to Cruise Critic to see what was posted by any of the 15 or so members that were on the same cruise. Keeping in mind that those 15 people

Cruise Critic and Seabourn: Host Dan is Known to Assure a Wealth of Misinformation…So Why Does Everyone Email Goldring Travel as a Result?

Goldring Travel April 11, 2011

I find it remarkable that Cruise Critic continues to allow Host Dan to prostitute the Seabourn message board so that misinformation can reign supreme. As the most recent example, there is presently a thread about who will be the master of the Seabourn Quest. A long time poster, Martita (the one with pajama parties, stuffed

Seabourn and Cruise Critic: Frustration, Ignorance and Misinformation. Let’s Correct That!

Goldring Travel February 9, 2011

I generally don’t talk about what I speak directly with Seabourn’s top management about, but I will say that the misinformation, tone of comments, censorship and generally bad attitude on the Cruise Critic message board for Seabourn is one of them. When accurate information is deleted (as it regularly is) and then it reappears when

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