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THE THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO RIVER CRUISING

Welcome to River Boat Ratings, the internet's leading site for those who are seriously considering sailing on one of the world's great waterways. It is good to have you here and we'd like to begin by making a few promises to you:

We will never talk down to you or insult your intelligence. This is a site for adults who do not need advertising hype, phony "user reviews" or PR double-speak.

This is the only river cruise review site that does not accept paid advertising from the companies we are reviewing. We do not accept promotional fees from any river boat company. You will never see an ad of any kind on riverboatratings.com

We use only the industry's most respected professional sources for information. Unknown "users" will never be quoted. The bulk of our material is sourced from leading industry reports and from the most respected travel journalists. Our evaluations are never based on popularity polls or self-appointed “critics”.

WHY TRUST US?

Actually, we're not sure you should "trust" anyone you meet on the internet. We urge you to check our background and credentials. Make certain you feel comfortable entrusting some of the best moments of your life to our consultants. Here are a few things about us we hope will be of interest:

We have been named "The World's Top River Boat Specialists" by the Editors of Conde Nast Traveler Magazine. Ours is the only firm in the nation to achieve this recognition, regarded as the equivalent of a restaurant receiving three Michelin stars. In fact, it is statistically harder to make the Conde Nast "World's Best Travel Specialists" list than it is to gain admission to Harvard University. We have also been named the “Nation’s Top European River Boat Specialists” by Wendy Perrin, the country’s most authoritative consumer travel voice.

Our Managing Editor, Richard Bruce Turen, is the Senior Contributing Editor at Travel Weekly, the most respected travel industry publication in the nation. He writes a regular column on industry affairs.

Our firm, Churchill & Turen Ltd., has been named "World's Best Small Luxury Cruise Specialists" by Conde Nast Traveler for the past eleven years. Collectively, our firm has won more "World's Best" accolades than any other travel firm in the United States.

We have been named one of the nation's Top Ten Personal Vacation Planners by Travel + Leisure Magazine.

We have been featured in articles in the New York Times, USA Today, Consumer Reports, and The Wall Street Journal. Our staff has appeared on CNN, ABC, and NBC News and on National Public Radio.

Members of our staff have lived in Europe, traveled her waterways, and worked for Europe's leading cruise lines and small ship operators.

We are celebrating our 30^th year in business. We are proud members of the $21.3 billion Virtuoso Network, the top producing agency group for the world's leading River Boat companies.

In 2015 and, again in 2017, we were named the Top Producing Consultants in the entire worldwide Virtuoso Group.

Look around our site. Do you notice anything unusual?

We do not accept advertising or payment from any river boat company reviewed on our site.

We are a not-for-profit, ad-free, consumer-oriented site and we will never try to sell you or hype you. Every river boat product is different. They are not all excellent.

We assume that visitors to our site are intelligent consumers and that you will know what to do if you are in agreement with our approach, find our knowledge of river boating of value, and wish to work with us on a zero-cost basis. We charge no fees of any kind in conjunction with the booking of river cruises. If you book with a river cruise company directly, you will still be charged our fee, as it is built into every fare.

Thank you for spending some time with us today at River Boat Ratings.com It is a privilege having you visit and we hope you were not disappointed by the lack of advertising, flashing lights, or insulting bait and switch pricing.

ANGELA TUREN IS NAMED ‘GODMOTHER’ OF SCENIC’S NEWEST RIVERBOAT

We are pleased to provide you with personalized advice/evaluations regarding European River Boats, or worldwide vacations including the highest-rated riverboats.

If you would like to become a Churchill and Turen Ltd. client we would be pleased to send you information about our firm and a New Guest Profile/Application. We’ve been at this for thirty-one years and our staff recognition includes forty-three “World’s Best Travel Specialists” awards from Conde Nast Traveler and “Top Bespoke Travel Planner” from Travel + Leisure. We are extremely proud to be the first, and only, travel firm in the United States to receive the industry’s highest recognition “World’s Top Europe River Cruise Specialists”.

if you feel we would be a really good match, we would be pleased to talk with you. We have offices in Naples, Florida and Naperville, Illinois and clients in forty-eight states and seven countries. At present, we have ninety-one On-Site offices around the world that assist us in the preparation of highly personalized, customized pre/post cruise five-star travel arrangements. We are one of the very few professional travel firms in the United States that does not charge fees of any kind in conjunction with your reservations aboard one of the World’s Top-Rated River Boats, Cruise Lines or Escorted Tour Operators.

Thank you again for joining us on the elusive search for travel truth. We look forward to the possibility of working with you to make your future vacation plans truly memorable. If you enjoy receiving insider travel information that does not insult your intelligence on a “no ads, no sales pitch, no exaggeration” basis, we invite you to visit our sister site, www.traveltruth.com.

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