travelguy9

I saw something a couple of days ago that I'd never seen before since Royal Caribbean went no-smoking in most public venues on their ships.

 

As I was walking along the Royal Promenade on Oasis of the Seas, I noticed a woman on a scooter who had positioned herself facing into a corner between Café Promenade and Kate Spade (formerly the Cupcake Cupboard). It seemed odd that she seemed to be just staring into the corner, but then I noticed her right hand had two fingers outstretched in a way that seemed to be characteristic of how a smoker might hold a cigarette. Then I saw her exhale a cloud of smoke.

 

She then dropped the cigarette on the floor and stepped on it to extinguish it. As she was backing out of her smoking corner, a crew member confronted her. She kept backing up while offering that she had no idea why there were the two (!) cigarette butts on the floor. She then drove away as the crew member watched her go. He seemed both befuddled and frustrated.

Oh, heavens, that's a most serious report! The work of a fine detective.

Can anyone share the music schedule in the Ocean Bar? We will be on the Veendam next month and hope to plan our evenings around getting lots of time on the dance floor.

On our many cruises, those who hogged the dance floor were commonly the poorest, most stilted dancers with costumes and such. So, we normal people were not so stilted were not amused. That is not going to change. When it came to "glamour" nights where decent dancers chose to dance, none of the ridiculous "ballroom dancers" I saw did anything but to shrink from the dance floor. Good for the rest of us; bad for them.