Honest Reviews.
No Hidden Agenda.
We built MyCruiseReview because we were tired of "reviews" that were just disguised booking engines.
Our Mission
The internet is full of cruise advice, but very little of it is truly independent. Travel agents want to sell you a cabin, cruise lines want to sell you their ship, and influencers want to keep getting free trips.
MyCruiseReview exists to change that. We provide objective, expert analysis of ships, itineraries, and cruise lines — written and graded against a single published rubric so every review is directly comparable.
Our editorial standard is simple: we write the review we'd want to read before booking a cruise. That means the good, the bad, and the disappointing — in equal measure.
How We Review
Our process is designed to produce reviews that are rigorous, repeatable, and free from external influence.
Independent editorial research
Our coverage draws on publicly available product information from cruise lines, industry data, port-authority records, and our own desk-research notebooks. We are a publication, not a travel agency.
Evaluate across five core categories
Every ship is assessed on Cabins, Food, Entertainment, Value, and Overall Experience. Each category has a defined rubric — cabin noise is tested at night, food is ordered across multiple venues, entertainment is attended from start to finish.
Compare against category peers
A budget cruise line is compared against other budget lines, not luxury operators. Context matters. We judge ships against reasonable expectations for their market segment.
Write without outside interference
Cruise lines do not see our reviews before publication. No one signs off on our content except our own editors. Our ratings are final when we file.
Single editorial standard
Every review and guide is published under one byline — MyCruiseReview Editorial — so readers can hold every piece to the same consistent standard.
The Editorial Team
One standard. One byline. Independent throughout.
MyCruiseReview is published under a single editorial byline — MyCruiseReview Editorial — to keep the focus on the analysis rather than the personalities behind it. Our reviews are produced collaboratively by editors and researchers with deep working knowledge of the cruise industry, and every piece passes through the same five-step methodology before publication.
We do not name individual writers in our public bylines. This is a deliberate choice: cruise lines should never be able to "work" a particular reviewer, and our readers should never have to wonder whether a review reflects one person's taste or our consistent editorial standard. When you read a MyCruiseReview piece, you are reading the standard — not a personality.
Press, partnership, and correction enquiries are handled by the editorial team and can be sent to our contact page.
Our Editorial Standard
Every piece on MyCruiseReview is held to the same editorial standard, regardless of subject.
- Cruise lines do not see, review, edit, or approve our content before publication.
- Our rating scores are assigned by our editorial team using a published rubric and are not subject to negotiation with any external party.
- We are a publication, not a travel agency — we do not handle cruise bookings.
- Every review and guide is published under one byline, MyCruiseReview Editorial, with the rubric applied identically across the catalogue.
- Corrections and updates are clearly noted with a revision date on the affected piece.