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# cruisecritic.com

Markdown: [Snapshot](https://truthsignal.com/business/cruisecritic.com/snapshot.md) [Full report](https://truthsignal.com/business/cruisecritic.com/report.md)

## Website

cruisecritic.com

cruisecritic.com cruisecritic.com

Checked on 12 Nov 2026, 21:48 Unclaimed

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## Truth score

Truth score 74 out of 100, High truth signals. Customer satisfaction: mostly dissatisfied

74 / 100

High truth signals

## Business details

Category: Cruises

Founded: 1995

Sells to: The public

Kind of seller: Comparison, review or referral site

Licensed trade: No licence normally needed

Domain age: 28 years

Address: Not found No address found using the trading company name

Email address: Not found

Phone number: Not found

Contact page: Not found

Website: [cruisecritic.com](https://cruisecritic.com/?utm_source=truthsignal.com&utm_medium=referral)

Social media: Not found

## Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

Site Reviews Rating

[SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/cruisecritic.com) · Read 12 November 2026 · 19 reviews · 2.2 out of 5 stars

Total 19 2.6 out of 5 stars

Customer satisfaction Mostly dissatisfied · Low confidence · From 19 reviews on 1 independent review site

App experience Insufficient evidence · No app ratings found

## Summary

Is cruisecritic.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 74 out of 100, high truth signals: 7 public checks clear, 1 to be cautious about, 1 not found, 1 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. App experience: insufficient evidence. Customer satisfaction: mostly dissatisfied, low confidence.

cruisecritic.com's website address was registered 28 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. Be cautious: its 19 reviews on SmartCustomer average only 2.2 stars out of 5. We could not find social media profiles, an address, an email address or a phone number.

### Positives

- Its website address was registered 28 years ago.
- No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

### Be cautious

- A low number of independent reviews (19 on [SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/cruisecritic.com) ), but it falls short with only 2.2 stars out of 5.

### Not found

- Social presence information was not found from our checks.
- Address information was not found from our checks.
- Email address information was not found from our checks.
- Phone number information was not found from our checks.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

### How to check if cruisecritic.com is legit

To check if cruisecritic.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about cruisecritic.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: [how to know if a shopping site is legit](https://truthsignal.com/guides/how-to-know-if-a-shopping-site-is-legit).

### Who they are

Company details Founded in 1995 (Wikipedia)

From Wikipedia

Industry: tourism

Founded: 1995

Sources [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_Critic)

Domain registration Its website address was registered 28 years ago

- Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else

Domain age: 28 years

Domain transfer lock enabled: Yes

Sources [ICANN Lookup](https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup?name=cruisecritic.com)

Website details Found: https enabled, hosting company

HTTPS enabled: Yes

Contact phone number found: Not found

Contact page found: Not found

Hosting company: Vercel, Inc

Search engines and AI Lets in search engines and AI answers; blocks AI training

Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.

Search engines

All allowed

Google Search: Allowed by default Googlebot

Bing: Allowed by default Bingbot

AI training

All blocked

OpenAI: Blocked by its robots.txt GPTBot

Anthropic: Blocked by its robots.txt ClaudeBot

Google AI: Blocked by its robots.txt Google-Extended

Apple AI: Blocked by its robots.txt Applebot-Extended

Common Crawl: Blocked by its robots.txt CCBot

Meta: Blocked by its robots.txt meta-externalagent

ByteDance (TikTok): Blocked by its robots.txt Bytespider

AI answers

All allowed

ChatGPT search: Allowed by default OAI-SearchBot

ChatGPT: Allowed by default ChatGPT-User

Claude search: Allowed by default Claude-SearchBot

Claude: Allowed by default Claude-User

Perplexity: Allowed by default PerplexityBot

User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: / User-agent: Google-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: meta-externalagent Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: Bytespider Disallow: / User-agent: Applebot-Extended Disallow: /

Sources [robots.txt](https://cruisecritic.com/robots.txt)

### Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints Rated 2.2 stars out of 5 from 19 reviews on [SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/cruisecritic.com)

Platform · Rating · Reviews

[SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/cruisecritic.com) · 2.2 out of 5 stars · 19

Total · 2.6 out of 5 stars · 19

Visitor traffic Real people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months

- Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
- It is among the 20,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)

Monthly visitor data

Popularity among Chrome users: top 50,000 sites

First known user traffic: Feb 2021 or earlier

Months with real traffic, of the last 24: 24

Traffic pattern: sustained

Rank jump in the last 12 months: none

Rank drop in the last 12 months: none

Cloudflare Radar

Popularity across the internet: top 20,000 sites

Where its visitors are

Share of people looking up cruisecritic.com, by country, over the last 2 days.

- Over 50%
- 5 to 50%
- 1 to 5%
- 0.2 to 1%
- Under 0.2%
- None seen

- 1 United States 51.7%
- 2 Germany 12.1%
- 3 Singapore 11.1%
- 4 Netherlands 3.4%
- 5 Brazil 2.9%
- 6 France 2.3%
- 7 United Kingdom 1.9%
- 8 Canada 1.4%
- 9 Argentina 1.1%
- 10 Hong Kong 1.0%

Top 10 of 55 countries.

Sources [Chrome UX Report](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux) [Cloudflare Radar](https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/cruisecritic.com)

Web history and authority The Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 26 years ago

Website archive history: 26 years

Sources [First archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/19991129/cruisecritic.com)

Social presence We could not check how big its social media following is.

### Safety

Malware and phishing No malware or phishing warnings found for its website This check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.

Malware or phishing threat status: None found

Sources [Google Web Risk](https://docs.cloud.google.com/web-risk/docs/advisory)

Data breach history No known data breach involving the company

Known data breaches found: 0

Sources [Have I Been Pwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/)

Domain and email security Its email is protected: mail forged in its name is blocked

Email

MX records: Yes

SPF record: Yes

DKIM key: Yes

DMARC record: Yes

DMARC policy: reject

Certificate

Security certificate browsers warn about: No

Certificate issuer: Let's Encrypt

Certificate type: DV

Certificate expires: 23 Jan 2027

Hosting

Nameservers: ns1.cruisecritic.net
ns2.cruisecritic.net
ns3.cruisecritic.net
ns4.cruisecritic.net

Address: 64.239.109.1

Sources [Its DNS records](https://dns.google/query?name=cruisecritic.com&rr_type=TXT)

### Proof of ownership

What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.

DNS record Not added yet +3 possible

What we check: A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.

When we check: On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.

Points: 0 of 3 added

Source cruisecritic.com's DNS records

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Email at its own domain Not added yet +1 possible

What we check: That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.

When we check: When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.

Points: 0 of 1 added

Source Truth Signal's own records

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Lets our checker read it Not added yet +1 possible

What we check: That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.

When we check: On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.

Points: 0 of 1 added

Source cruisecritic.com/robots.txt

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Points added to its truth score 0 of 5

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## Past reports

The report as it read each month, newest first:

- 2026-11: truth score 74, High: https://truthsignal.com/business/cruisecritic.com/report/2026-11.md

## How the customers' Total rating is worked out

Bayesian average: 7 reviews at 3.5 stars added, so a few reviews move it less. The 7 added reviews at 3.5 stars are the weighting Trustpilot publishes for its TrustScore. With this business's figures:

(7 × 3.5 + 2.2 × 19 (SmartCustomer)) ÷ (7 + 19) = 2.6, to one decimal place

## Cite

Truth Signal, cruisecritic.com: truth score 74 out of 100, legitimacy confidence High, assessed 2026-11-12, https://truthsignal.com/business/cruisecritic.com. Licence Truth Signal terms: free to read and quote with a link back; bulk copying, data sets, resale, white-label and model training need the paid API plan (https://truthsignal.com/terms). The same report as JSON: https://truthsignal.com/business/cruisecritic.com.json
