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Meet Anne Campbell

Cruising From New York is a labor of love by Anne Campbell, a journalist who has been covering the cruise industry since 1993. It combines two of her great loves:  cruising and the port of New York.  She is editor and founder of the web site.
 

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.


 Anne lives a few minutes from the Manhattan port in New York City where she resides with Mickey, her Shit-tzu puppy.

To contact Anne, email:  Click Here.

Anne's photo:  Joe Gaffney

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