Silly Concern, I Know

[Elaine5715]

To the OP, if you had outerwear like coats which are rarely laundered, they would retain more smoke smell than jeans or shirts

[OCruisers]

Did you empty your ashtray from your balcony into a trash can inside of your cabin?

Guess it no longer matters since balcony smoking is going bye-bye.

LuLu

[Jimmy Geegitz]

I can always tell when I meet someone if they smoke. They smell bad. Don't think they think people can smell it but they can. It's in their clothes and on their breath.

[Pyxie]

When I was in college, neither my roommate nor myself smoked (never have). However, we both came from homes where our parents were heavy smokers. The dorm mother called us into her office one day and accused us of smoking in our dorm room, which was obviously against the rules, because the clothes we brought from home smelled like smoke. So yes I am sure that is what caused this.

Edited July 17, 2014 by Pyxie

[Lerin]

Febreze may help a little, but there is another solution. If you get naked before you go out to smoke, then you won't have to worry about the smell getting in your clothing.:o

 

You can smell smokers from a lot more than just clothing: hair, pores, breath, sweat(which seeps into the sheets and pillows when you sleep), etc...

Also items you bring from home have that stench too: suitcase, toiletries, shoes, purse, jewelry, pack of gum, etc...

 

The only way to not stink like smoke is to not smoke.

 

OP, even though you only smoked on your balcony the steward probably smelled smoke in everything else.

[LadyL]

To all those that responded, thank you for the comments and suggestions. I'm really working on it so hopefully it will be a non-issue on our next cruise. But...what would you do if that were to happen and you were charged the cleaning fee even though you didn't smoke in your cabin?

[beachbum53]

To all those that responded, thank you for the comments and suggestions. I'm really working on it so hopefully it will be a non-issue on our next cruise. But...what would you do if that were to happen and you were charged the cleaning fee even though you didn't smoke in your cabin?

 

The only thing I would know to do is go to Guest Services, ask to speak with the hotel manager, and plead your case. At least you'd have a 50-50 chance of getting the charge removed.

[Homosassa]

Even if you only smoke on the balcony, when you open the balcony door, the stench is pulled into the room, and will be obvious outside your cabin in the hallway and in neighboring cabins.

 

Hooray for banning smoking in the cabins and balconies!!

[winddawn]

but I am about our upcoming cruise. DH and I are smokers (actually DH has quit recently, and I'm working on it). Anyway, during our cruises we have never smoked in our cabins, but have on the balcony. During the last cruise, there were at least three times when we returned to our room to find an air ionizer, or whatever its called, plugged in. We asked the steward about it and was told it was because we were smoking in our cabin. We informed him we have never smoked in our cabin, but he didn't seem to care. My concern is, now with the new policy in effect, we'll get another steward who swears we're smoking in the cabin and will be charged the $250 fee. If we were doing something we shouldn't that's one thing, but I don't want to be charged for something I'm not doing nor have ever done. I'm not trying to start a debate, guess I'm just seeking a little reassurance. Thanks all!

The fee was in place prior to the recent smoking policy change. The only thing about it that changed is that it now covers smoking on the balcony too. So if he really thought you were violating the policy, you would have likely been charged on that cruise.

 

It could be that you had neighbors complaining they could smell it and the steward was simply trying to resolve the complaint.

Edited July 17, 2014 by winddawn

[mjt2890]

Sounds like it's time to switch to e-cigarettes and then you can smoke in whatever cabin type you have.

[sjcruiser]

+1 on the Febreeze recommendation. It's always worked wonders for me as a cigar smoker.

 

+2 from a cigar smoker. I also take a small travel Febreeze for the room, to spray the room, but this year I found some small travel size sprays from Bath and Body Works that last longer than the Febreeze. To give your room a constant great smell, I place a Glad Decor Scents Refill with Disposable Holder in the room and bathroom. Its not overbearing, and they're cheap. Although they will last 60 days, I chuck them the last day, or place them in several ziplock bags to bring home and throw them under the seat in the car, etc. Walgreens has them on the web link below, but WalMart also has them on the end of the aisle, which is usually the clearance items in the cleaning section for less than two dollars each.

 

You can find the description here:

 

http://www.walgreens.com/store/c/glade-decor-scents-refill-with-disposable-holder-red-honeysuckle-nectar/ID=prod6177538-product

Edited July 17, 2014 by sjcruiser

[runner15km]

If you open the balcony door when your partner is smoking it will enter the cabin.

[Laurin612]

My son is 12 and his best friend's parents are heavy smokers. They do not smoke in the house when my son is there, but when it is just their family they smoke in the house. When my son comes home from playing there he smells strongly of smoke. When he sleeps over there he begs me to wash his sleeping bag and pillow when he gets home because they smell "like Justin's house." The smoke odor just seeps into everything. That's probably what your cabin steward smelled.

[ldlewis45]

I have to say that I don't agree with the Febreeze suggestions. It really doesn't do that great of a job getting heavy odors out. It just makes it smell like perfumey-smoke or whatever odor that you're trying to get rid of. Just like people who spray themselves with perfume or cologne after having a cigarette, thinking that they're covering the smell. If someone's clothing smells so much that the steward thinks that they've been smoking in the room and has to use an ionizer, Febreeze isn't going to help much, unfortunately.

[LadyL]

The fee was in place prior to the recent smoking policy change. The only thing about it that changed is that it now covers smoking on the balcony too. So if he really thought you were violating the policy, you would have likely been charged on that cruise.

 

It could be that you had neighbors complaining they could smell it and the steward was simply trying to resolve the complaint.

 

 

Actually, no. As stated previously, during our last cruise you COULD still smoke in the room and on the balcony, so there was no policy to violate.

[cruzinlisa]

Probably smoke odor in your clothing .

Smokers may not notice , but it is there and it smells .

 

I know what you mean. And if you are in a non-smoking environment most of the time, you notice it even more. Whenever I go to visit my mom's or go to the casino, I come back smelling like smoke. It even gets into my hair. And I am not the one smoking. I never noticed it when I actually lived at my mom's but I do now.

 

OP- hopefully you will be fine, but febreeze may help.

[cio541]

but I am about our upcoming cruise. DH and I are smokers (actually DH has quit recently, and I'm working on it). Anyway, during our cruises we have never smoked in our cabins, but have on the balcony. During the last cruise, there were at least three times when we returned to our room to find an air ionizer, or whatever its called, plugged in. We asked the steward about it and was told it was because we were smoking in our cabin. We informed him we have never smoked in our cabin, but he didn't seem to care. My concern is, now with the new policy in effect, we'll get another steward who swears we're smoking in the cabin and will be charged the $250 fee. If we were doing something we shouldn't that's one thing, but I don't want to be charged for something I'm not doing nor have ever done. I'm not trying to start a debate, guess I'm just seeking a little reassurance. Thanks all!

 

Is it possible the steward was smelling a strong smoke smell on your clothing? I know what I can smell smoke on people's clothing sometimes, and even if they are not smoking around me I know they are a smoker. He may have mistaken one smell for smoking in room?

[NavyCruiser]

Easy, before coming back in/to our cabin from smoking my cigars on/in balcony, cigar lounge or casino, I stop by ship's store & spray all kinds of both men's & women's perfumes to mask the smell...

 

Seriously, I bring an extra bag from the dry cleaners from home to put my cigar smoking clothes in, zip up, & leave in closet