TheTravelMavens.com, who we are

David G. Molyneaux

Editor of TheTravelMavens.com and and its primary blogger,   David Molyneaux is an award-winning writer, editor, and lecturer who has been guiding his legions of readers around the world for more than 25 years.

David writes for newspapers and the Internet. He is cruise columnist for the Miami Herald and the Dallas Morning News, and is a regular contributor to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

David is on Facebook, Twitter, AllThingsCruise, and other Internet travel and cruise sites. His Travel Maven blog focuses on cruises, new ships, and tales from ports around the world, as well as commentary on golf resorts, nature and cultural explorations, health and healing escapes (including spas), and family journeys of discovery and relaxation. He has visited all 49 of 50 United States, and more than 80 countries on six continents.

David is president of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) Foundation, which oversees the distinguished annual Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition.

He is the long-time vice chairman of the SATW Editors Council, made up of travel editors and representatives from major North American newspapers, magazines, broadcasting and the Internet. For more than 24 years, David was Travel Editor of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio.

Dave G. Houser

Travel journalist  Dave G. Houser is an award-winning photographer and writer who has traveled the world on assignment for newspapers, magazines and the Internet. Houser wins bronze as 2009 Travel Journalist of the Year.

You will find some of his articles and pictures at TheTravelMavens.com

Dave has traveled the globe since 1987 in search of magical and elusive tales and photographs. He has won a bounty of professional awards. His words and pictures have appeared in nearly every major publication devoted to travel, among them National Geographic Traveler, Islands, Conde Nast Traveler, and the Los Angeles Times.

Don George

Don George is a trusted and pioneering travel journalist who is editor of Don's Place, part of the Adventure Collection Website for planning adventure trips around the world. Don has visited more than 65 countries. 

Don has been an editor at Lonely Planet Publications, the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle and at Salon.com. He appears regularly on CNN and NPR. Don has published seven books, including “Travel Writing,” “The Kindness of Strangers,” “By the Seat of My Pants,” and “Tales from Nowhere.”

Don is editor of an online magazine called RECCE: Literary Journeys for the Discerning Traveler.  

George at the isolated airport at Aitutaki, one of the Cook islands in the South Pacific, north of Rarotonga. Aitutaki has a population of about 2,000.

 

Comments

[DAVID & JUDY ZALLES]

I guess this is the only way to get a message to you. I just read your column on SPECIALTY RESTAURANTS. We agree completely. Our first 3 cruises were all on Celebrity ( Constellation and Millenium), and the food in the maindining rooms were great, and the specialty dining rooms were superb, and well worth the extra cost.

We just returned from 10 day cruise on Oasis of the Seas to Panama Canal (round trip from Miami). We agree that the main dining room was just ok, but the Chops Grille and Portofino were excellent, and welll worth the extra cost. The maitre d told us that they lose money on every meal there, and we're sure that they do. We actually ate at Portofino for the Mystery Theater dinner. We really enjoyed the show ( which is a well kept secret), and the meal was superb.

By the way, you might be intersted to report that the "PANAMA CANAL CRUISE" did not go THRU the canal, as advertised. We had to take an extra excursion TO the observation deck at the canal, where we saw 2 ships go thru. Others paid much more for an 8-hour trip across Panama, and then back thru the canal. When we complained on the survey, they called, and refunded our tour cost. But they never told us before or since the cruise why they did not go THRU the Gaton Locks, as advertised.

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