Which rooms are nonsmoking?

[MM2U2]

Is smoking also allowed in the eating areas? What rooms are reserved for smoking? Do the smoking/nonsmoking rooms change from cruise to cruise? Can I change rooms if my assigned room is a smoking room and my family and I cannot tolerate a previous smoking room?
Sorry for all of the questions but California (my state) has very strict smoking laws and I am just not used to being in a smoking area (except for last year's fire). I love Disneyland because they have small designated areas for smoking so that the rest of us don't have to breathe it!!

 

[NCRedding]

All of the cabins are non-smoking. The dining rooms are non-smoking, although I may have seen someone smoking outside of Topsiders. The adult lounges are all smoking allowed.

 

[MM2U2]

Thank you! As long as the rooms are nonsmoking, my family and I will be okay. Thanks again!!

 

[Horace Horsecollar]

Originally posted by MM2U2
Thank you! As long as the rooms are nonsmoking, my family and I will be okay. Thanks again!!

That's the main reason why we we'll be cruising DCL a third time rather than choosing a different cruise line.

On all other cruise lines with large ships, (RCCL, Princess, NCL, Carnival, Holland America, Celebrity, etc.), smoking is allowed in any stateroom. But on DCL, all staterooms are nonsmoking.

(Until a few weeks ago Carnival had one ship that was 100% nonsmoking, the Carnival Paradise. That ship has been repositioned to Long Beach, and now shares the usual Carnival smoking rules.)

 

[SeaSpray]

We've cruised on Royal Caribbean and they do NOT allow smoking in the cabins. I was wondering if perhaps they changed this policy recently, and I just found this on their web site, in the FAQ section:



Life Onboard


What is your smoking policy?

For the comfort and enjoyment of our guests, smoking is prohibited onboard most areas of our ships. However, to provide an onboard environment that also satisfies smokers, we have special designated smoking areas in many of our lounges and on all open-air decks. On Alaska Cruisetours, smoking is not permitted on motorcoaches or inside traincars. On Canadian Rockies Cruisetours, smoking is not permitted on motorcoaches or anywhere on the traincars.

 

[Horace Horsecollar]

Originally posted by SeaSpray
We've cruised on Royal Caribbean and they do NOT allow smoking in the cabins.

I wish that were true. I called Royal Caribbean. They do not have designated smoking and nonsmoking staterooms. Passengers are welcome to smoke in any stateroom -- but they assured me that they do a great job of cleaning between guests.

Royal Caribbean does not allow smoking in their dining rooms and theaters (just like Disney).

In exterior areas, Royal Caribbean allows smoking only on the starboard side, so you can safely relax in a chair on the port side, without worrying that someone will light up right next to you. That's an area where Disney could do better. (Disney allows smoking everywhere outside except right by the Mickey pool.)

 

[deebs]

On our last cruise, we had smokers in the cabin aft of us. Whenever we were out on the verandah, they were coincidentally on their verandah smoking away.

Since we were "downdraft" to them, we got big facefulls of smoke.

As we're in 7016 on this Saturday's sailing of MAGIC, we have no verandahs aft of us, so we won't have this problem again!!

 

[PoohJen]

I've read that folks on DCL smoke on their verandahs. Is that common? Just wondering.

 

[Horace Horsecollar]

Originally posted by PoohJen
I've read that folks on DCL smoke on their verandahs. Is that common?

It's perfectly within DCL's smoking rules to smoke on the verandahs. And considering that smoking is not allowed inside the staterooms, smokers must step onto their verandahs (or go to a public area where smoking is allowed) to smoke.

I wouldn't be surprised is the proportion of verandah staterooms occupied by smokers is higher than the overall percentage of DCL passengers who smoke, given DCL's smoking rules. I'm sure smokers apreciate the convenience of being able to smoke on their verandah, and that this is a factor when they choose their stateroom category.

 

[sweet angel]

I'm sure smokers apreciate the convenience of being able to smoke on their verandah, and that this is a factor when they choose their stateroom category.

That's where we'll be.

 

[SeaSpray]

Originally posted by Horace Horsecollar
I wish that were true. I called Royal Caribbean. They do not have designated smoking and nonsmoking staterooms. Passengers are welcome to smoke in any stateroom -- but they assured me that they do a great job of cleaning between guests.

Royal Caribbean does not allow smoking in their dining rooms and theaters (just like Disney).

In exterior areas, Royal Caribbean allows smoking only on the starboard side, so you can safely relax in a chair on the port side, without worrying that someone will light up right next to you. That's an area where Disney could do better. (Disney allows smoking everywhere outside except right by the Mickey pool.)

This surprises me that their web site, and our own experience would be one thing, but on the phone they're telling you something else. There are smoke alarms in the cabins, I'm surprised that they don't go off if someone smokes in there. And you're right about them not having designated smoking and non-smoking cabins because they're all supposed to be non-smoking. I think it's ridiculous if RCI lets people smoke in the cabins!!

 

[Horace Horsecollar]

Originally posted by SeaSpray
This surprises me that their web site, and our own experience would be one thing, but on the phone they're telling you something else. There are smoke alarms in the cabins, I'm surprised that they don't go off if someone smokes in there. And you're right about them not having designated smoking and non-smoking cabins because they're all supposed to be non-smoking. I think it's ridiculous if RCI lets people smoke in the cabins!!

I think it's interesting that the Royal Caribbean website that you cited doesn't say anything one way or the other about staterooms. Only public areas are addressed.

The sensitivity of smoke alarms can be adjusted. I would imagine that most smokers have smoke alarms in their homes, but that these only go off if there is a real fire, not just a lit cigarette, in the room.

I think it's ridiculous that all cruise lines except DCL allow smoking in all staterooms. If hotels can offer smoking and nonsmoking rooms, I don't know why cruise lines can't do the same. They seem to feel that they can wash away the smell and the irritants after a smoker vacates the room.

Take a look at these threads over on Cruise Critic's Royal Caribbean board:

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=71025

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=79187

 

[twinglez]

When I asked my travel agent about the rooms, she stated that the rooms are not designated smoking or non-smoking but are cleaned really well that no one has noticed or not.

I have had smokers in a room adjacent to me at a resort, and I have no problem with people smoking, but it didn't allow me to be able to enjoy being outside, BBQing during my stay there.

It would be nice to be able to seperate the rooms with verandas to have a section of smokers so the non smokers can enjoy being outdoors as well.

If it is true to DCL doesn't allow smoking in the rooms, it is a nice surprise for me.

 

[Tluvs2talk]

twinglez,
All of Disney's staterooms are non- smoking.

Teri

 

[SeaSpray]

Horance, thanks for the links, I had already gone over to Cruise Critic and did a search on "smoking" on the RCI board and saw that cruisers do, indeed, smoke in their cabins. I think that's terrible. Cruise lines are supposedly very concerned about the risk of fire, I can't believe they allow smoking in the cabins. Also, if they ARE going to allow it, then I agree that there should be separate cabins.

I'm glad that DCL doesn't allow it, and that they enforce the policy.

P.S. From RCI's web site, I thought the words "smoking is prohibited onboard most areas of our ships" pretty much covered cabins. They then go on to mention where smoking is permitted. It's easier for them to say where people CAN smoke, than list the long list of places where they can't. But apparently, from what we've read on Cruise Critic, they don't enforce this anyway

 

[inkkognito]

If you are a non-smoker and want to lessen the chances of being next door in a verandah stateroom, try to select a stateroom with another room on only one side (or next door to a nav verandah, or else get a nav verandah yourself). This is one of the things that I like about 5650. You only have a stateroom on one side, and although we've been next door to chain smokers a couple of times, it hasn't been a problem on the majority of our cruises. I do notice that it can drift aft from the staterooms in front of us, but the verandah of 5650 is recessed so I just sit back and don't smell a thing.
I have an awful allergic reaction to smoke when exposed a lot, and on RCCL's Sovereign of the Seas I had a major attack even though I stayed away from smokers. The smoke has premeated the walls, which are actually yellowed, and the smell is everywhere on that ship. Disney is much better for non-smokers than RCCL.
Barb

 

[Cruisin]

Disney may not allow smoking in any of their cabins but it still does happen.

Our last cruise we were booked into a Cat 11 (interior) cabin. When we arrived and went to our cabin it just reeked of smoke. It was so bad that we couldn't stand to be in the cabin.

We notified Guest Services and were given a stateroom change. The CM who would have been our Room Steward agreed with us that the smoke smell was so strong that he could not do anything about it and didn't blame us for asking for a cabin change.

 

[MRIrene]

I found it ironic that RCI doesn't allow irons in cabins for safety reasons, but will allow smoking.