JohnathanS
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Hmmm, I guess I'll just put in my experiences here! 
I usually travel to Disney with my Mom who is a smoker, while I am not.
1. We always request smoking and have only not gotten it once. That was, indeed, at a DVC resort (OKW) and so Mom did not smoke in the room or on the balcony. She would instead walk down to the car and smoke in it (she really got to know the inside of that car, lol! Even when we have a smoking room she will usually smoke outside on the balcony, as I am becoming increasingly sensitive to smoking (it gives me a sore throat and a runny nose after a while which sometimes leads to a cold).
2. We have seen Disney enforce the smoking rule quite a bit in the parks. Once it happened to Mom, when she was in France. They had moved the smoking area and she hadn't realized this (she's kind of spacey and has even gotten in the wrong car at a gas station, lol!) She was about 20 feet from the new area, and was told to move to it which she did immediately. We've also seen people walking around with cigarettes who have been told to put them out by CMs.
3. As far as smoking in non-smoking rooms...I think that would be hard to enforce. Our non-smoking room (which Mom never smoked in) still smelled like smoke simply because it gets on her clothes, books, luggage, etc (and unfortunately mine too!!
). I was always worried that the house keeper would report us for smoking in the room-due to the smell-when that was not the case at all. So, I think it would be tricky to try to fine a person for smoking in a non-smoking room unless they were actually seen (or clouds of it were rolling out the window, lol!).
4. When travelling by myself, I don't request smoking or non-smoking. Smoke doesn't bother me unless I am breathing it directly inside (outside it doesn't seem to bother me) and I have a terrible sense of smell. When I get to the desk, I tell them it doesn't matter, just put me in the one that they have the most of, leaving the others open for those for whom it matters.
Anyway, that's been our experience. As far as great smoking locations at DVC resorts, we have found that building 25 at OKW is a great location!
I usually travel to Disney with my Mom who is a smoker, while I am not.
1. We always request smoking and have only not gotten it once. That was, indeed, at a DVC resort (OKW) and so Mom did not smoke in the room or on the balcony. She would instead walk down to the car and smoke in it (she really got to know the inside of that car, lol! Even when we have a smoking room she will usually smoke outside on the balcony, as I am becoming increasingly sensitive to smoking (it gives me a sore throat and a runny nose after a while which sometimes leads to a cold).
2. We have seen Disney enforce the smoking rule quite a bit in the parks. Once it happened to Mom, when she was in France. They had moved the smoking area and she hadn't realized this (she's kind of spacey and has even gotten in the wrong car at a gas station, lol!) She was about 20 feet from the new area, and was told to move to it which she did immediately. We've also seen people walking around with cigarettes who have been told to put them out by CMs.
3. As far as smoking in non-smoking rooms...I think that would be hard to enforce. Our non-smoking room (which Mom never smoked in) still smelled like smoke simply because it gets on her clothes, books, luggage, etc (and unfortunately mine too!!
). I was always worried that the house keeper would report us for smoking in the room-due to the smell-when that was not the case at all. So, I think it would be tricky to try to fine a person for smoking in a non-smoking room unless they were actually seen (or clouds of it were rolling out the window, lol!). 4. When travelling by myself, I don't request smoking or non-smoking. Smoke doesn't bother me unless I am breathing it directly inside (outside it doesn't seem to bother me) and I have a terrible sense of smell. When I get to the desk, I tell them it doesn't matter, just put me in the one that they have the most of, leaving the others open for those for whom it matters.
Anyway, that's been our experience. As far as great smoking locations at DVC resorts, we have found that building 25 at OKW is a great location!
! Guest services came out a "SPRAYED" the room and we went through an entire bottle of febreeze, but the smell remained. Very disturbing (mad me very angry) everytime you walked into the master bdrm. IT REEKED OF SMOKE!!!! YUCK! As an exsmoker I think it tends to bother me even more because if I had been in a NON-SMOKING room I wouldn't have smoked! Why can't housekeeping alert guest services when someone checks out and they noyice that smoking was taking place in a non-smokig room? Then the people that were smoking could be charged a huge ($200.00) clean-up fee? That might deter at least a few of the SMOKERS who violate the rules! Just venting here........
