Cigar Smokers

[jade1]

I would rather smell pot then cigars or cigarettes. Cigar smoke could be one of the more repulsive smells in the universe. Can't say I'm at all upset that Sosa is gone or that your limited to a select few areas to smoke.

I don't smoke anything, but man I actually lingered around a guy smoking a pipe at DS. It smelled soo good.

 

[fla4fun]

I'm not a smoker but this 100%. There's nothing worse than being in an indoor line and the person in front of you bathed themselves in perfume.

Or didn’t bother to bathe at all . . .

It is funny how different tobacco products smell. Although I am allergic and avoid being near smokers these days, when I was a child my dad smoked cigars and his best friend smoked a pipe. I remember the pipe smelling so good and the cigars smelling awful. It didn’t help that the cigars triggered my allergies much more than the pipe either. I couldn’t believe it when I found out they were both made of tobacco.

 

[StageTek]

One thing I love about the cigar smokers in The World is the conversation. We are sitting for a while, people watching, winding down, just chillin'. Cigarette smokers hit the smoking area, suck up a cig or two and take off - still in a hurry.

I've had some great conversations with fellow cigar smokers winding down after along day in the parks. It's something I really look forward to and enjoy on a WDW trip.

 

[zorro77]

smoking Cigars is a passio I’ve enjoyed for years. Sitting outside pool area or on a walk.

 

[justinslot]

Reviving this thread, which I consider to be the general purpose "talk about smoking cigars at Walt Disney World" thread.

Capa, the restaurant on top of the Four Seasons, is on my radar. I think I was looking for steakhouses on the WDW subreddit, seeing if there were any I hadn't ate at yet, and Capa came up. Looking at the menu on Yelp and I see this intriguing bit:



"Cigars can be smoked on the lounge terrace after 10 PM." This is from a 2023 menu, though there is similar info on a 2024 menu but the picture I found was partially cut off. Curiously the information about cigars does not appear on the Four Seasons website. The only person who mentioned cigars on Yelp did so in 2021. I cannot find any photographic record of someone having a cigar on their terrace. I am hoping it is actually true, as having a cigar on the roof of the Four Seasons sounds like a fantastic time. Apparently they do not check your net worth at the door there and the great unwashed can mingle with the upper crust. The menu at Capa does not seem extraordinarily expensive to me, it's in keeping with other fancy restaurants on property. I worry that the cigar menu is priced for rich people, and wonder if bringing your own is possible (rich people prices aside I know what I like with cigars and their menu may not have it.)

Anyway, has anyone ever done this? Capa closes at 10; if you are there planning on enjoying a post dinner cigar, should you show up around 8 and plan for a two hour meal? Or if you are eating there do you get access to the terrace no matter how long dinner takes post 10 PM?

I don't have a Disney trip planned right now so these are just questions for future reference.

 

[CoachBeard]

I know they've demonized smoking of any kind there but for the money we pay, give us a lounge or room or something where we can smoke bats and drink whiskey like gentlemen. Even the Japanese have smoking rooms that don't make folks venture miles from a resort to enjoy smoke quality time.

 

[justinslot]

Sadly I do not think the act of smoking tobacco is commonplace enough anymore to justify smoking rooms. Well, sadly in the sense that it is sad for us cigar people, but it's a public health victory that cigarette smoking has been so greatly diminished.

I wish there was a proper cigar lounge/bar on property, of the sort you encounter in the downtowns of most major American cities (cigars, full bar, a snack menu if you are lucky and a full menu if you are extremely lucky.) I know there was that small cigar shop in Disney Springs; I was never there but it seems it was just a shop, not a lounge to enjoy bourbon or coffee with your smoke.

Capa is the first place on property that has cigars on the menu I have encountered. Like there are some cigars in a case outside Shula's but there's no place to smoke them at Shula's. Most restaurants with a patio are smoke free--I would love to smoke at Topolino's, and certainly smoking is in keeping with the Mediterranean theme, but it is forbidden. I'm hoping someone on this forum has had a cigar at Capa and can report back.

 

[Boopuff]

My DH fondly remembers back when Sosa Cigar had a small lounge and outdoor seating. Now he just finds a smoking area to indulge.