Furor over Room Requests

[GAIL HAYDEN]

LOL,
Dee is a cigar smoker and I love the smell of his cigars (normally I hate it!!!!) and we won't even mentioned people who chew, ucko barfo!!!!

Ok DeeP, I won't tell. Ok nonsmokers, I lied, they reak, they are kept in terrible condition, burns and holes everywhere, because along with our lack of smell, we have a lack of class and no consideration for others. Avoid smoking rooms at all costs!!!!
How's that DeeP? (This was tongue in cheek folks).

 

[DaveH]

Telling if someone has smoked in a room has many factors. I think less people smoking in the rooms help keep the smell down. I have seen smokers in a smoking room go outside anyway. They just like having the option but may not smoke in the room. My DW's dad was a smoker. We had his sofa sleeper and you could not smell smoke in the our house. When we laided down on the sofa and especially when ill we could smell the smoke and we had it for over 3 years in a smoke free enviroment. I think they need the option but CM's need to be aware that folks can find out the hard if they let someone smoke in a non smoking room. Sorry to start something else.

 

[Niagara2]

Once, even though we requested non-smoking, we got building 20, which is smoking optional. It was so bad that the smoke smell stayed in our suitcases for a year! I had to lay down two towels on the pillow to sleep. My kids coughed the whole trip. If I got a smoking room assigned again I would refuse it for health reasons This has been the only room that I ever had a problem with in many stays.

 

[GAIL HAYDEN]

I don't think building 20 is a smoking optional building. Sounds like someone was doing something they should not have been doing.

 

[ncligs]

Believe me, and I have said this before...........it will be here before you know it..........all WDW resorts will be "non-smoking" in the future.It may be next year,2 years or 5 years, but it will be a reality down the road. All smokers would just have to walk outside and away from the resorts.
California doesn't even allow you to smoke in restraunts or bars, or in any public building.So it is just a matter of time before WDW and Florida start the ball rolling for there resorts.

 

[DaveH]

ncligs I have seen you saying that before. I am a non smoker,but I wonder the legal issues with the timeshare part. I do believe the day will come for all non smoking at the hotels, the timeshare I am not so sure of except in the new DVC resorts. They tell the buyers up front non smoking only.

 

[GAIL HAYDEN]

Dave,
What new DVC resort is smoke free?

 

[GAIL HAYDEN]

California doesn't even allow you to smoke in restraunts or bars, or in any public building.So it is just a matter of time before WDW and Florida start the ball rolling for there

Yes, true, but, even in CA you can smoke in a smoking optional room. Someone made the same prognostication about the parks being smoke free in the future (about 10 years ago), as we all know, they still are not. Fortunately, the restaurants are, much to my never ending joy (I hate smoke near my food).
I doubt Disney will do this.

 

[DaveH]

No DVC is smoke free. I was thinking more like Eagle Pines or later DVC might be. Just a thought on the DVC side. The regular resorts I think might be easier to change. Disney does have to think about the folks from overseas that wants smoke also.

 

[GAIL HAYDEN]

Thanks Dave.

 

[DeeP]

Ok DeeP, I won't tell. Ok nonsmokers, I lied, they reak, they are kept in terrible condition, burns and holes everywhere, because along with our lack of smell, we have a lack of class and no consideration for others. Avoid smoking rooms at all costs!!!!

Gail, that was excellent!!!! Lets keep all those nasty smoking rooms to ourselves! They are nasty, nasty, nasty! No one but smokers with a lack of class and non smokers with a lack of smell and lack of class would ever be caught dead in them. LOL!

I also agree that I seriously doubt WDW resorts will ever be totally non smoking. There are too many smoking guests who stay at WDW resorts for this to happen and even if it did there will still be people smoking in the non smoking rooms. Look at the parks and how many people you see smoking in non designated smoking areas. I don't know if it because now I am more conscious of it or not, but I now see more cigarette butts on the ground and people smoking where ever they please then I did before WDW instituted the non smoking areas in the parks!

 

[Niagara2]

Gail, it might not of been building 20, but was down that way on Miller Road.

 

[Lesley]

We're trying for one of those boardwalk view smoking rooms in Dec.... We usually request non-smoking, but my parents are coming with us. And I guarantee that my mom will smoke in the room or at least on the balcony regardless of the type of room we're given. (as much as some are militant non-smokers, she's a bit of a militant smoker).

I had never even made a request for non-smoking on my own until we stayed in a smoking room at the Polynesian that was very smoky and smelly (though I was able to air it out sufficiently....) I think it had something to do with the folks in the next room because after they checked out we weren't bothered by smoke smell at all. My dh and I have both grown up in smoking families so we tend to be very tolerant of smoke, so I was surprised by this. Since then we've requested non-smoking, except for our upcoming trip.

 

[ncligs]

Originally posted by DeeP

I also agree that I seriously doubt WDW resorts will ever be totally non smoking. There are too many smoking guests who stay at WDW resorts for this to happen and even if it did there will still be people smoking in the non smoking rooms.

Deep,
Thats exactly what the bar and restraunt owners said in California and now New York and now they are "Smoke Free"..Nobody is forcing these guests to stay at WDW resorts when they convert to non-smoking in the future. I think if vacationers have the choice to go to WDW or not....they would choose to come and smoke outside the resorts.

 

[scootersmom]

We stayed at a hotel here in Ohio last weekend that was entirely non-smoking rooms.
Smoking was permitted in the bar, outside on the grounds, on your balcony or patio. In the paperwork they sent us with our confirmation, they stated there would be an additional $300 added to your credit card for a deep cleaning fee if you smoked in your room.
I wouldn't be surprised to see this becoming more common in the future.

 

[ncligs]

Originally posted by scootersmom
We stayed at a hotel here in Ohio last weekend that was entirely non-smoking rooms.
Smoking was permitted in the bar, outside on the grounds, on your balcony or patio. In the paperwork they sent us with our confirmation, they stated there would be an additional $300 added to your credit card for a deep cleaning fee if you smoked in your room.
I wouldn't be surprised to see this becoming more common in the future.

I like that idea....

 

[Chuck S]

One problem I see with ncligs prediction of totally smoke-free resorts is that WDW is an international destination, and most European countries are much more "relaxed" about smoking. I appreciate having non-smoking and smoking rooms at WDW, sometimes we travel with smokers. Yes, we were given a choice years ago of taking a smoking room that was ready, or waiting for our non-smoking room...we took the smoking room so we could unload the car and hit the parks - but we learned our lesson - there was a lingering "aroma" in our clothes and luggage after we got home. I am pleased to have the smoke-free restaurants on property, too...but most off-site eateries still have smoking/non-smoking areas. As long as it is legal to use and sell tobacco products, I think accomodations should be available for those folks that smoke.

 

[Regina]

Okay folks, let's not divert this thread into a smoking/non-smoking debate.

You'll certainly find topics along those lines on the debate board.

Thanks!!