Conde Nast Announces Top Cruise Picks

Conde Nast Traveler (CNT) announced the results of its 2008 Readers’ Choice Awards, ranking the best cities, cruise lines, airlines, hotels and resorts worldwide. The awards appear in the November issue and are derived from the Conde Nast Traveler Readers Choice Survey, the independent poll of consumers’ preferences in the U.S. This year, 32,633 readers voted. The full list of winners is at www.concierge.com/cntraveler/articles/500074.

Cruise Lines: Top cruise lines-large ships are Crystal, Regent Seven Seas, Disney. Top cruise lines-small ships are Seabourn, Regent Seven Seas, SeaDream Yacht Club.

The Readers Choice Awards gala took place on Oct. 15 in New York City at the New York Public Library. The final tabulations of 32,633 responses were done by Mediamark Research, Inc., of New York City. Questionnaires contained lists of candidates (individual cities, hotels, etc.), and write-ins were allowed. Only candidates that received a required minimum number of responses were deemed eligible for an award. Each candidate was rated, criterion by criterion, on a five-point scale: excellent, very good, good, fair, poor. Criterion scores, which represent the percentage of respondents rating a candidate excellent or very good, were averaged to determine the final score. For more information, visit www.cntraveler.com.