Susan Boehnstedt

My Background

I was in my mid-teens, on an adventure in Washington DC., when the travel bug first stung me. From that moment on, life began to taunt me with a host of opportunities to experience the sights, sounds, cuisines, and cultures of our world.

Upon graduating college, a favorable combination of circumstances granted me a total cultural immersion as an au pair in Germany and student of German language in Basel, Switzerland. The European travel bug gave me a new injection of wanderlust.

During my university years I worked full-time in management roles for a major travel company; the exposure to corporate structure gradually evolved into a career directly overseeing 72 travel marketing representation offices around the world. Additional opportunities, as my career progressed, have afforded me growth in all facets of the travel industry.

The world continues to reveal its wonders to me from the simplest to the most complex via travel on land, sea, and air. From rainforests of Latin America to views from the Eiffel Tower plus the most awesome and humbling natural wonders. From tasty street food to the most elaborate dining establishments and cuisines the world has to offer. From opulent accommodations at the world’s finest resorts to trekking the Galapagos.

In 2002 I founded Critics Choice Vacations; moving forward ever since to share the marvels of travel with those who share my passion. To weave dreams and fantasies of exotic faraway places into reality. YOUR style of vacation.