For you smokers out there......

[Sammie]

Well if you ask at the Front Desk you will be told that it's fine to smoke on the balcony and/or patio of a NS villa.

However this is a hot topic and you might get evil looks from your neighbors or worse.

The problem is the smoke drifts over to the NS neighbors and if your door is open back into the NS villa. Would he consider taking a long walk when he needs to smoke.

At some timeshare properties you can be fined for smoking even on the patios and balconies; but Disney has not come to that yet.

 

[Dean]

However this is a hot topic and you might get evil looks from your neighbors or worse.

Got my super soaker right here, LOL.

 

[rchristiansen]

(just to preface I hate smoking)

I think if you went outside of your room (I don't know know how SSR is laid out exactly) and NOT on the balcony, but like where the parking or entryway door is, I think it's probably OK. I would be miffed it was coming from an adjoining balcony, but I wouldn't think anything of it if they were in the parking lot, or front doorway.

 

[Luigi's Girl]

Got my super soaker right here, LOL.

And I would pay to watch you use it!

 

[deide71]

You could buy him a patch. Or several if he is like my MIL.

 

[TCPluto]

"Right outside" the rooms at SSR is a hallway. It would soon smell like an alternative high school bathroom at lunchtime if he smokes in there.

Have him take his smoking to the parking lot at least.

 

[SueOKW]

it's true they say the balcony is fine... and i would say ok ONLY if the wind is blowing it away from any other balcony which is not likely.

I feel for him, he'll find a little visited spot somewhere around, i hope - and if he's lucky, there will be a bench there!

 

[goofy4tink]

On at least one occasion, on each and every stay at BWV, I have had to go back inside my room because someone is smoking either below or beside me!!! I get a non-smoking villa since I'm allergic to smoke. But try to sit outside and relax with someone smoking a big ole stogie on the balcony below you!!! Yuck!!!
Another super soaker at the ready!!!

 

[dianeschlicht]

LOL, I guess I'll have to start packing a super soaker too! At OKW, it wouldn't bother me if someone went out to the stairwell or the sidewalk below to smoke, but the balcony WOULD bother me.

 

[scottrob]

Penny and I were at the VWL in late September. She is a smoker and despite asking for a smoking room, none were available (1 bedroom unit). We asked about the balcony and they did not like that idea. We ended up getting a ground floor unit which faced the woods and so she would to for a walk when she wanted to smoke or walked to the smoking area near the entrance to the Villas.
We asked for a smoking room, even though she does not smoke in the room, but on the balcony. Their compromise seemed reasonable to me and did not impact anyone else.

 

[magicmommy]

DH and I were at SSR in November. Once in a great while he enjoys a cigar and purchased one at Party for the Senses. Very late that night were on the balcony and he said I'd love that cigar now. After a quick look see I noticed a couple a few balconies down and asked they would mind if he smoked his cigar. They said absolutely no problem. I said are you sure??? You really don't have to feel uncomfortable saying no but they insisted he enjoy it. My point is common courtesy either on a balcony or any common are where smoke can affect others.

 

[btrim]

I have stayed away from the smoking conversations on purpose because I know it is a hot topic. However, no one in my family smokes and we are not allergic to smoke, but I don't care for the smell and I really was not happy when we received a non-smoking 2bdrm at VWL this past week and someone had smoked in the room. It permeates your clothing and everthing else. They did come and spray, but that is not a pleasant smell either. While my huband and I were enjoying the balcony, we noticed that someone had sat out there and used the railing for an ashtray. Thus, smoke smell back in the villa. I wish there was someone way to come up with areas for smokers that non-smokers didn't have to even be close to. The older I get the more this bothers me. So, I guess I am saying, please if you are a smoker, don't smoke anywhere close to a non-smoking room. Not only would it help the non-smokers, people allergic to smoke, etc., but I am sure the maintenance on the villas would be easier also.

O.K. now I have said my piece and I will not venture into these conversations again.

Thanks,
A Non-smoker from Illinois

 

[goofy4tink]

DH and I were at SSR in November. Once in a great while he enjoys a cigar and purchased one at Party for the Senses. Very late that night were on the balcony and he said I'd love that cigar now. After a quick look see I noticed a couple a few balconies down and asked they would mind if he smoked his cigar. They said absolutely no problem. I said are you sure??? You really don't have to feel uncomfortable saying no but they insisted he enjoy it. My point is common courtesy either on a balcony or any common are where smoke can affect others.

Well said!!! Common courtesy is a wonderful thing. We all thank you for asking!!!

 

[Mickmse2002]

I'm just going to pull up the ol' lazy boy with a bucket of popcorn and watch the flames fly on this one...........

 

[Sammie]

I'm just going to pull up the ol' lazy boy with a bucket of popcorn and watch the flames fly on this one...........

No flames so far, I think we can discuss and share solutions for both sides without resulting to that.

Unless someone comes along and tries to provoke us.

 

[goofy4tink]

I'm just going to pull up the ol' lazy boy with a bucket of popcorn and watch the flames fly on this one...........

Ahhh, but we all have our super soakers at the ready, just in case we see any 'flames'

 

[ACDSNY]

We have the same problem for our next trip so we decided the smoking couple would have to get their own studio as I have asthma and allergies. That way we all can be comfortable.

 

[Mickmse2002]

No flames so far, I think we can discuss and share solutions for both sides without resulting to that.

Unless someone comes along and tries to provoke us.

I agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment.......I just know from previous threads that end up being 15 or 20 pages long that civil discourse on the smoking issue rarely occurs.......but we can always remain hopeful.

 

[colleen costello]

I am sounding like a broken record on this topic, but I swear Disney TRIES to cause these problems. Smokers and non-smokers alike are usually happy to be kept far apart, so both groups can be happy. Yet Disney seems to insist on mixing them up. Maybe it is their way of getting back at us for making too many room requests? We stayed at VWL two summers ago. My room, facing the walkway out front, was nonsmoking, yet everywhere around me there were smokers on their balconies, puffing away. I never got to enjoy that balcony, and it really bugged me. Why aren't all the smoking rooms CLUSTERED, at one end of the building, on one end of one or two floors, so the smoking balconies are adjacent?

Similar is the problem at the pools. They have these giant pools, surrounded by tables, and I have written them repeatedly asking that smoking be limited to the tables on ONE SIDE of the pool... This is hardly a risky, cutting-edge plan -- just designate one area so the non-smokers know which area to avoid! The answer I get is "we limit smoking inside buildings and in the parks" which to me means "go scratch." So every time I sit down poolside, a smoker eventually sits nearby and I get sick from the smell. Why is Disney SO backward on this issue? It is not that hard to take small steps to try and keep the two groups apart!

 

[susieh]

Bit by bit UK law is changing so public areas will be non-smokig areas (I forget what law is what at the moment so don't ask me for details )

That suits me fine - people not being allowed to smoke at work means that I have got used to a 'clean' atmosphere and as no-one in my family or circle of friends smokes I don't generally go places where there are smokers.

You cant smoke on planes any more, most public transport is non-smoking and we always ask for non-smoking in restaurants etc.

The trouble is my nose has become super sensitive to the smell of cigarate smoke and as a result if someone is smoking I notice it far sooner.

I hope we get an apartment next summer which is not close to smokers!