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Donna Heiderstadt is a New York-based freelance travel writer and Shermans Travel’s cruise expert. For the past 15 years, she has written extensively about cruises, covering new ship launches, enjoying itineraries from the Baltic to the South Pacific, and discovering the smaller-scale joys of river cruising. Since her first Caribbean sailing in 1995, Donna has taken 60+ cruises and spent more than 430 nights aboard cruise ships.