Cigeratte Smoke??

[eangel12]

My husband and I are in the process of trying to decide on a cruise. We were originally set on the RC Legend of the Seas. We then saw that Carnival has a ship, Miracle, leaving around the same time. We can't decide which one to take. Also, we have been told that smoking is a HUGE issue on ships. I am allergic to cigeratte smoke. Is it really bad? Where did you notice smoking most?? Are Carnival ships worse than RC for smokers??

 

HELP!

[Sheffie]

I haven't found that smoking is a huge issue on the ships we have been on. There is a designated side (port or starboard) out on decks for smoking and most people abide by this. One time someone was smoking on the "wrong" side, near me, and I said something to one of the officers walking about. He went and said something to the person and they changed sides.

 

There IS smoking in the casinos and most of the bars. You will just have to avoid these places as much as possible.

 

If you have a balcony, you always run in to the possibility of a smoker being in a cabin near you and smoking on their balcony.

 

I don't know if Carnival is worse than RCI. It has been a long time since I was on Carnival.

 

I cannot stand to be around cigarette smoke and I don't even think about it. I am sure you will be fine.

[Arwenmark]

Ships have a smoking and a non smoking side to the ship in general on open decks and each lounge or inside public space has a side for each. there is not suppose to be any smoking in hallways or in or near elevators, unfortunately people do smoke near elevators and there is always a lot of smoke as ashtrays are outside elevators. The Casino is a smoke disaster and it permeates the areas near it as well. The Dining areas are all smoke free, other than on the outside deck. Smoking is permitted in the cabins and very unfortunately for non smokers, on balconies. It is one reason I always try for the first balcony on a ship, no one to let smoke blow back onto my balcony.

Smoking is a fact of life on ships and European cruises worse than some others but you can avoid most of it most of the time.

[Cotton]

eAngel - I don't think smoking is a huge issue on cruise ships. As stated above, there are certain areas designated for smoking (and these are becoming fewer). Yes, there will be some idiots who don't abide by the rules, but a quick chat with an officer on deck will solve that problem. The ashtrays outside elevators are for folks to put out their cigs before boarding the elevators.

 

The most smoke I've seen has been in the casinos. All dining venues and the main showlounge are smoke-free. Hopefully, you won't have any problem with your allergy, and you'll have a wonderful cruise.

[nparmelee]

I'm also allergic to smoke, it's one of the reasons we are trying Oceania next since they only allow smoking in 2 places on the ship. On our past two cruises, never smelled smoke in our cabins and occassionally could smell it out on our balconies, never enough to make us go inside. DH is very good about noticing when there is a lot of smoke around and will steer me through those bars and casinos pretty quickly. Both ships we were on, the casino was a bad area for me no matter what side of the ship we were on, good thing we don't gamble! It's really not too hard to go to the areas that are smoke free and less smokey smelling, it just means that there are probably some bars that you won't spend much time in. Check the smoking policy of the line you are considering, if they only allow smoking on one side of the ship (most lines), check the deck plans and see where the different lounges are and see how it might affect you. For example, on our Celebrity cruise, the Champaigne bar was on the smoking side and the Martini bar on the non-smoking side, so we would just go to the martini bar before dinner and avoid the champaigne bar. IF we were going through a smoking bar, we'd just go as quickly as we could. Definitely worse at night than the rest of the day.

[VentureMan_2000]

I'm not a smoker, and I don't remember smoking being an issue at all. You are only allowed to smoke on the leeward side (when on deck) of the ship so that smoke blows immediately out to sea, as opposed to across the decks. The ship inforces this rule.

 

Mostly casinos have the smoke.

 

Smoking just isn't an issue. Of course there are always plenty that can make it into an issue... :rolleyes:

[Krazy Kruizers]

Since the cruise ships have banned smoking in the dining rooms - that was a big plus. Some of the bars on some ships have a smoking section that is right next to the non-smoking section - you will encounter smoke if you sit to close to that section.

 

We did have a heavy smoker on the verandah next to ours once - neither of us can handle the smoke so we rarely used our verandah on that cruise. That happens some times.

[Jane110]

 

We did have a heavy smoker on the verandah next to ours once - neither of us can handle the smoke so we rarely used our verandah on that cruise. That happens some times.

 

As another poster pointed out, Oceania does not allow any smoking in the cabins or on the verandah's.

 

Jane

[Laurab23]

The worst place I found on Carnival ships was in the casino,which is not a problem with me because I stay away from the casino!

Laura

[caviargal]

My husband and I are in the process of trying to decide on a cruise. We were originally set on the RC Legend of the Seas. We then saw that Carnival has a ship, Miracle, leaving around the same time. We can't decide which one to take. Also, we have been told that smoking is a HUGE issue on ships. I am allergic to cigeratte smoke. Is it really bad? Where did you notice smoking most?? Are Carnival ships worse than RC for smokers??

 

HELP!

 

In my personal experience, the Carnival ships I cruised on were the heaviest concentration of smokers in all of my cruises, except for the Med on an MSC cruise as smoking was permitted in more areas. I hate smoke so am really bothered by it and also constantly amazed at how many people - young folks especially - still smoke.

 

Only Oceania has really strict smoking policies.

[Juliadlf]

Not for or against smoking but one of the things we found when taking our first cruise was that the casino was an open area therefore not really limiting the smoke from going to other places on the ship.

 

We also found that if you wanted to use the internet service, people would have to walk through the Cigar bar to get to it.

 

Did not have a problem with our cabin smelling like smoke but yes, we could smell it in the hallways from those cabins where people were smoking. Not a huge issue but just an observation.

 

One day a cruiseline will build a ship or remodel allowing for one area - enclosed - for smokers and stop the smoking in the cabins, bars, casinos and on the open decks.:rolleyes:

[eangel12]

Thank you for all of the responses!!