Is smoking on the patio at the poly ok?

[jazmyin]

We are going to the Poly and staying in a GV conceirge room. I want to request a ground floor (patio) as I do not smoke and do not want a smoking room for my ds and I. My partner smokes although not in our house. Do they allow smoking on the Patio?

 

[aahmom1]

Yes, last year I requested a smoking room (I only planned to smoke outside of it) at the Contemp, there were none available but the CM told me I could smoke on the patio.

 

[PhillyDisnynut]

Well, although it is technically outdoors, just tell them to be mindful of the people on either side of you. Smoke does travel into their rooms. I know my neighbor at home smokes on his patio and the smoke travels up into our living room thru our sliding door we have a 3 story twin home. It was so bad at one point i ran upstairs and busted into my 17 year old room thinking he was smoking! So just be kinda to those around you. Have a great trip!

 

[Angel1]

IMHO you should book a smoking room and smoke on that patio. If your partner chooses not to expose your child to smoke in the room, that's your decision.

I'm planning a trip to the Poly soon, and I sure hope I'm not smelling cigarette smoke all week!

 

[Carrieberry]

I have seen so many topics on smoking here and I really don't understand why a person can't post a topic about smoking on these boards without constantly getting berated by non smokers for one reason or another. It's not like people don't already know others don't like it, or that it is bad for you, or they purposely blow smoke in other peoples rooms. People just ask questions about the rules, and for some reason, a lot of the times they get opinions from non-smokers about what they think of it! Sorry to vent, but this is supposed to be a place for people to ask questions and get answers, not for people to feel bad about whether they have a smoking habit or someone they love does. By the way I am a non-smoker.


In answer to your question, yes, one can smoke on the patios of the ground floor non smoking rooms or on the balconies of others (except AKL savannah). Disney has not made this a wrong thing to do, and though some might not like it, this is in fact the rule.

 

[Angel1]

I think people's concern is partly emotional and partly financial. We're paying big bucks for these rooms. It seems perfectly reasonable that smokers book rooms in smoking buildings.

It's interesting that one can only smoke in certain segregated areas of the parks.

That's just my 2 cents, not intended to flame anyone!

 

[bellisima2002]

carrie, I totally agree with you when someone asks a question for opinions and then gets attacked!!

I do believe though if you have a smoker in your party, you should request a smoking room, therefore putting you in a section of the building where people who don't smoke, are asmatic, allergic etc.... will not be bothered.

I do feel that getting a non-smoking room because you do not want your children to be bothered by the smoke and have the person in your party smoke on the patio or balcony is wrong.

This is just saying it's ok because my children won't be bothered, but others patrons of that establishment will be bothered.

We spend a lot of time in the deluxe resorts for the atmosphere, views etc.... and we keep our balcony door open and spend time on the balcony. Smoke travels with the wind, up a level, down a level and would be very upsetting to a non-smoker who requested a non-smoking room in a non-smoking section or building.

I am not bashing anyone. Just stating on this topic that if you have a smoker in your party either have them refrain from smoking or pick a smoking room where you are assured you will not disturb anyone who may be near you paying for a non-smoking room or section.

 

[jel0511]

As the parent of an asthmatic son, I request that you don't smoke on the patio of a non-smoking room. I always get a guaranteed non-smoking room when I book, due to my son's asthma. I also enjoy sitting on my balcony or patio in the morning reading the paper, usually leaving the sliding glass door opened. We also use the patio/balcony at night and if there was smoke near my son, it could trigger an ashtma attack for him. I ALWAYS request the non-smoking sections of restaurants and yes it is difficult when we go out, but I ususally try to avoid the smoking sections of most places, even in WDW since there are designated smoking areas there as well. I don't want to turn this into a non-smoker, smoker debate, but please think about those who do have special needs and NEED a non-smoking enviornment for their health.

 

[Carrieberry]

I was not trying to upset anyone or say you were wrong for your opinions.

Until Disney changes their rules and makes everything non-smoking, there will be smokers. In fact, most vistors from other countries come from places where smoking is still the norm and would not think twice about lighting up in line at a park, which is the reason for the smoking areas of the parks.

I was not trying to start a debate, and I am in no way saying that people's reasons for not wanting to smell smoke or whatever were wrong. Another thing to think about is that some of the smoking rooms are below the non-smoking rooms at some of the resorts (even deluxe) and even if someone is in a smoking room, and smoking, it is possible for the smoke to go up into someone elses room, so this can't always be avoided. I think smokers know that most people don't care for it, or have health issues with it, and try to be as accomodating as possible. Unfortuneately, there are those that are at the opposite end of the spectrum and don't think anything of it. There is no way to avoid these people, and believe me, these are probably not the people posting about this subject here on these boards, because the people that post here about the smoking topic (and I don't just mean this topic) are asking their questions because they do care.

Again, I was not trying to start a debate, just trying to get people to go a little easier on the smoking posters that have valid questions about the rules regarding their very hard to break habit.

 

[Trekker]

This is not a debate about Disney rules - this is a question about if something is allowed......

Please stay on topic or this will be closed...

 

[Tinkbell]

I'm not going to get into the ethics of wheter it is appropriate or not. I will state that my cousin and her family vacationed at the Polynesian last year. They had a 3rd floor balcony room. My cousin's husband is a smoker. They requested smoking but ended up in non smoking. The CM at the front desk told them that he could smoke on the balcony, but not in the room. Housekeeping even provided him with an ashtray. So, unless things have changed, the resort allows it.

 

[Blondie]

I do believe though if you have a smoker in your party, you should request a smoking room, therefore putting you in a section of the building where people who don't smoke, are asmatic, allergic etc.... will not be bothered.

That would be the considerate thing to do, IMHO.

 

[DMRick]

carrie, I totally agree with you when someone asks a question for opinions and then gets attacked!!

I don't understand..you said this, and then repeated what the person said about not smoking please in non smoking areas! Nobody blasted or attacked anyone.

I too ask you to please not smoke outside of non smoking rooms. I request and get non smoking buildings because of my own asthma. It's not fun to pay a big amount for a vacation and then be sick. Smoke, perfume..they both do it to me. I can't do a darn thing about the perfume, but I think the same of the person who has a non working nose and slathers on the perfume while on vacation, and then crosses my path. No rules against either..smoking outside your room or dumping on the perfume, as a poster said. But that's why people who can't be around smoke. get so touchy..because smoke doesn't just stay in the face of the person smoking..if we enjoy it or not, we are stuck with it. I'll defend YOUR right to smoke all I can..as long as I don't have to breath it in. Until a smoker ends up with empysema (sp), you can't know what it feels like to keep trying to breath and not be able to..pure panic. If I should harsh, I feel I have earned the right. I lost both parents to cancer directly from their smoking habits, and I get to enjoy asthma from years of breathing it in.

 

[lizzie64]

As another asthmatic, and IMHO, I would hope that the person in the non smoking rooms around me did not smoke on the patio. Whether Disney allows it or not.

If you are a smoker, you choose to inhale and smell like smoke. As a non-smoker and an asthmatic I choose non smoking because I physically can't tolerate smoke. If the rooms around me are smoking that smoke gets everywhere and I can't escape it. You choose to be in smoke, but, if you smoke in a non smoking room balcony, the you've taken my choice (and need) to be smoke free away from me.

 

[CaipiraBob]

<P>Sure it is. Enjoy! I was on the lagoon side so I cruised down to the beach with a glass of Alambic Brandy to go with my stogies. The patio is fine though. I only smoke once every three or four months. Nothing like a good puff and a chaser for a relaxing moment. </p>

 

[peachgirl]

I wonder if the rules are the same for all resorts? There was a person on the WL faq topic who works at that resort and I'm pretty sure he said that smoking was not allowed on the balconies of non smoking rooms. I know when we stayed at the YC in 2000, they allowed smoking on the balconies of non smoking rooms. At the Grand Californian it was a no no, but that hotel is totally non-smoking with the exception of a couple of outside smoking areas.

 

[addictd2disney]

but I might be mistaken - that the concierge building is non smoking for the first 2 floors and smoking on the 3rd. I would think for obvious reasons because the smoke drifts up. If he wants to smoke even while he may be allowed to on the patio,it would be nice to go out from the room away from the building.

 

[SueM in MN]

This is one of those gray areas where CMs seem to tell people whatever they think the person wants to hear.
There have been smokers who have posted they were told that smoking on patios was perfectly acceptable (and were given ashtrays to use). People who stayed at the same resort in the same time period have posted they were told that the patio or balcony was part of the non-smoking room, so no smoking there. Both are telling the truth, so obviously the problem is CMs giving out differnt information.
I don't think that's fair to anyone. The smokers are trying to get an answer and do what is acceptable and the people with allergies are told they are in a non-smoking area that really isn't.

 

[jazmyin]

I don't want to offend anyone is why I was posting this question. I do not smoke, and I wasn't sure of the "rules" at the poly. I need to have a ground floor as I will be only several months post major surgery on my ankle and will find ot easier to be on the patio level. That said, are their specific areas for smokers at this resort. I want both of us to enjoy this vacation.

 

[Disneydenise]

I think they have designated areas at the resort for smoking. I will also tell you that if someone is smoking on the patio or balconey next to my non smoking room I will request that the person go to those areas.
I realize that smoking is a habit that is difficult to break but I make my own Father go out front of my home to smoke and I make him sit away from where the children are when we are on the patio. I really am bother by smoke so if I ask my dad to be considerate I have no problem asking a stranger to be considerate. It is very difficult to be a smoker in the world today. People really are not nice to them however, the smoke is irrating to many people.