Rob Clabbers

Chicago-based globetrotter, cruise, expedition and travel specialist

Would you rather have an agent "who has been selling travel for 25 years" plan your vacation? Or someone who has personally lived, worked and traveled on all seven continents, and who has experienced over 140 ocean and river cruises?

A hotelier by trade and raised in the Netherlands, I lived in Macau, Hong Kong, Paris, the Caribbean. My role for a luxury hotel company took me to Asia, Australia, Europe, South America before settling in Chicago.

There I opened the leisure travel agency that became Q Cruise + Travel.

• Virtuoso Global Member Advisory Board - US North Central Region Director 2022 -
• Chair, Virtuoso Cruise Committee 2018 - 2022
• Virtuoso US Member Advisory Board 2021, 2022
• Travel + Leisure Travel Advisory Board
• Travel + Leisure A-List Advisor
• Virtuoso Cruise Ambassador of the Year Nominee, 2018, 2019
• Virtuoso Most Innovative Cruise Advisor 2017 Finalist

What I love in travel?

• Expedition Travel: exploring Antarctica, Arctic, Africa
• Ocean Cruises: smaller ships, Mediterranean, Asia, Scandinavia
• River cruises: Rhine, Danube, Provence & Burgundy, Cambodia, Vietnam, Bordeaux
• Western Europe is still my "home"
• Asia and Australia: I lived in Asia, and am a certified Aussie Specialist
• Great hotels & resorts: as a hotelier, I love historical grand dames and modern boutique hotels
• Tahiti, Bora Bora, Moorea: picture perfect tropical islands
• Travel in comfort: business, first class airlines, lounges, seats