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Every page on this site names the person who wrote it and the person who checked it. Here is who they are and why they are qualified to say what they say.
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Collective work of our writers, researchers and reviewers.
Some pages on this site are the product of the whole desk rather than a single writer. Reference tables, comparison grids and structural guides are assembled by researchers, checked by a reviewer and maintained on a rolling schedule.
Writer · United States
Founding editor
Fourteen Alaska sailings across seven cruise lines.
Marin founded AlaskanCruises.us after a decade of writing about expedition and mainstream cruising for consumer travel titles. Their focus is the gap between what a brochure promises and what a passenger actually experiences on a wet Tuesday in Ketchikan.
Writer and fact checker · 15 articles · Seattle, Washington
Senior writer, ports and destinations
Former Southeast Alaska shore excursion coordinator.
Dana spent five seasons working shore side in Southeast Alaska, three of them coordinating excursion logistics for operators in Juneau and Skagway. That job meant knowing exactly how long a whale watching boat takes to load, why a floatplane tour cancels, and what happens to a tour when four ships are in port at once.
Writer and fact checker · 10 articles · Juneau, Alaska
Writer, costs and planning
Consumer travel economics researcher.
Priya covers the money side of cruising: what a fare actually includes, how the extras stack up, and where the published price and the final credit card statement part company.
Writer · 2 articles · Portland, Oregon
Writer, wildlife and natural history
Marine naturalist, former expedition lecturer.
Callum worked as a naturalist on small expedition vessels in Southeast Alaska and Prince William Sound before moving into writing. Their beat here is everything living: whales, bears, seabirds, salmon, and the ice and forest systems that support them.
Writer and fact checker · 13 articles · Sitka, Alaska
