CC Cruise Reviews and News shutting down

[WeBeCruisin']

I don't know if anyone else has posted on this, but I just got a letter from CC informing me that the Cruise Critic Cruise Reviews and News is being discontinued as of the December issue. There was a check enclosed for the balance of my subscription fees.

 

They stated in the letter that they "had not been able to garner enough subscribers for us to continue publication of our print newsletter".

 

It was expensive, but was often very interesting, particularly once they had gone to color.

 

Personally, I think the $39.00 cost was what put people off (although I think they dropped it to $29.00 for charter subscribers and for re-newals. If it had been in the $15 to $20 year range, I think it would have been much more appealing.

 

I hope I'm not repeating information someone has already posted.

 

Allen

[madforcruising]

I didn´t even know there was such a thing.

[WeBeCruisin']

I didn´t even know there was such a thing.

 

I think they started it up in maybe September or October of 2003. The fact that they never apparently promoted it much, even here on CC, may have been part of the problem.

[madforcruising]

Well I have to admit that I rarely to never read the email newsletters they send around and I always go directly through the bookmarks to the boards and don´t visit the cruise critic pages.

[mason525]

I was subscribed & enjoyed it very much. Kept them for review in a file. Meg

[WeBeCruisin']

Well I have to admit that I rarely to never read the email newsletters they send around and I always go directly through the bookmarks to the boards and don´t visit the cruise critic pages.

 

Another factor appears to be that the first issue came out right about the time you joined CC. That would mean what little advertising they did for it was probably in July and August, which was before you joined.