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Welcome to Cruising with the Family!

Nicole Ratner is an award-winning Certified Meeting Professional and author of the Cruising with the Family (this site!) that’s led to her first published book, Choose to Cruise. She has spent nearly two decades in the travel and hospitality industry and has been a contributor to multiple travel websites, quoted in the USA Today newspaper, and deemed Mom of the Year according to her kids. She has been a lifelong lover of journalism and media writing for her high school and college newspapers before landing a job working for NBC4 in Washington, D.C. Nicole loves to promote the travel industry and most recently became a media member of the Family Travel Association. She lives and works out of her home outside Washington, D.C. and shares her love of travel with her husband and two children. Ultimately, Nicole dreams of cruising with her family for an entire year while sharing it with all of you!

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