Our Experts

Rich and I take great pride in building an award winning Pacific Northwest Cruise Holidays store as part of the Travel Leaders Leisure Group, featuring such an accomplished family of professional travel counselors Our staff has a track record of serving thousands of satisfied customers over the past decade. Want experts in River Cruising, an anniversary or family getaway, we have the people to help you.
We are on top of all travel and vacation trends and we constantly search for the newest innovations, experiences and opportunities for our customers

Along with my partner Steve Sibley, we founded Cruise Holidays of Woodinville. We have grown our business to the point where we have been named President Circle members five times–a mark of one of the top 20 Cruise Holidays stores in North America. We specialize in river cruises, luxury cruises and top end land vacations to places like Hawaii, Europe and South Pacific destinations.

My favorite cruise is my next one.

I have always had a passion for travel from my earliest days on through today. Experiencing different cultures and peoples is high on my list. Fortunately, I have been able to enjoy dozens of cruises, from wonderful river boats to glamourous mega-ships. From AMA Waterways to Viking Ocean, to Silverseas to Celebrity, my cruise experience is world-wide and wide-ranging. When asked, what’s my favorite cruise, my answer is always—the next one!

My experience is very different from most travel counselors. I have been a pastor at my local church for many years and I think that gives me a great platform to understand the wishes and needs of my vacation clients (more like friends in the making). I have also been associated with travel for many years, first with Holland America Line as a spouse to their PR Director, and then as co-owner of Cruise Holidays of Woodinville for the past 19 years.

My goal is to craft the best possible vacation experience for all of my customers, and give them my ultimate in details, follow-throughs and advice.

Travel makes for lifetime memories. In today’s world, it is “Experiential travel” that my clients want. You want the extraordinary not the ordinary. With my past experiences and up to date destination knowledge, I can make your current request possible but also suggest new trip ideas as alternatives. Together we can work on your bucket list now or for future travel. I want to help you make memories a reality now and in the future.

Tracey takes pride in the time she spent as a resident of Alaska and has kept that Alaskan spirit in helping other people find the Great Land or any other location they might wish. Tracey is an accredited Tahiti expert, an accredited Hawaii expert, a Princess Commodore and a graduate of the Holland America Line Academy.

She has a high energy approach to creating the best in both cruise and land vacation experiences and has shown herself to be a master problem solver in the vacation planning process.

Cindy greatly enjoys travel and the new friendships and great memories it provides. Having traveled in 49 of 50 states, with Hawaii as a personal favorite she is now working her way across the rest of the globe.

Although she loves working with clients of all ages, Cindy has become our designated seniors counselor. She has worked in the senior segment of our population since 1999, and she has taken that knowledge and sensitivity and applied it to the world of vacation travel.

Wendy is a Premier Cruise Specialist. Who loves traveling and learning about different countries, She enjoys meeting the people that are from all over the world and loves to plan group cruises. She have done group cruises in the Mediterranean, the Baltic, Australia and New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Ireland and Alaska.

A major fan of Holland America Line, she is also a Commodore for Princess Cruises. Wendy loves to escort groups and usually takes a least one major group a year

Jan earned her wings and a great deal of international travel knowledge working as a flight attendant for legendary Pan American Airlines. Since those days she has followed up with a personal love for travel and has cruised upon nearly every major cruise line from ultra luxury to big ship contemporary.

Jan has received the highest accreditation rating from the national Cruise Line International Association, the cruise industry’s major trade association and she is a Tahiti and Fiji expert and Princess Commodore as well as nearly every cruise line.

Fran Nolan cruises and travels whenever she has the opportunity because she is passionate about the benefits of quality vacation travel. Fran is a veteran travel counselor with many years of experience and is one of our at-home counselors who lives in the Phoenix area. Fran also have a following of loyal fans who know they can rely on her to find them a great vacation value and quality at the same time.

Stephanie a native of Phoenix Arizona, is a certified vacation expert who traveled worldwide to most popular destinations, such as Europe, Alaska, Mexico, Caribbean Islands and Walt Disney World. Stephanie’s specialized knowledge allows us to offer you insights and personal recommendations no online site can offer you.

Stephanie will work for you and we will do everything we can to meet your travel needs. She has the ability to enhance your trip with value-added benefits and amenities by sending a bottle of wine, providing a special land package, a specific escort or other customer amenities. Most important, she is your advocate in the event something inadvertently goes wrong.