Can you smell the people smoked in your cabin?

[Bothell]

On the Victory 2 weeks ago we had 3 cabins and didnt smell any smoke. BUT about day 5 we smelled cigarette smoke in 2 of the 3 cabins when we woke up, but then it was gone when we returned later in the day.

I am wondering if they use a air freshener the first day and it is then re-applied somewhere around day 5? Because up until then we smelled nothing.

[F5Loar]

One reason we don't book balcony rooms is the smoke problem. Why pay extra to smell smoke from your neighbors? We take the money we save on our inside cabins and buy those fancy smoke eliminator machines, plug in wall freshners(with several drop cords you can have about a dozen), bring our own sheets/towels/bedspreads and a bottle of miracle smokless spray to clean down the walls and ceiling first day. And we just got a mini-carpet shampoo machine to remove the smell from the carpets. We can get all this extra stuff into one big suitcase so it's not too bad to lug on the ship. In about 2 hours of clean-up we have a smoke free room for the week. That is what it is going to take if you had a smoker in your room before you. Forget the ship doing it. They don't clean the walls, the ceiling or shampoo the carpets between each guest. Many don't change the bedspread either. If you had a heavy smoker in your cabin the previous weeks it will absorb a full week's worth of smoke in all those areas. I'm not complaining, it's a fact of life if you want to cruise in a smokless cabin on Carnival. Disney does have non-smoking cabins but then the price Disney charges you only offset having to not bring all that stuff to cleanse the room. These people who tell you they have never had a problem were lucky enough to have had previous non-smokers for many weeks and that might be possible with you on your week but remember, you can pick your ship even if brand new, pick the week to go and where you want to go to but you can never pick those 2000+/- people who will cruise before you or with you. That really is the luck of the draw.

It's a fact we non-smokers will have to live with until Carnival brings their smoking policies up to the 21st Century. Non-smoking rooms in hotels/motels started world-wide back in the early 1980's. You would think after 25 years Carnival and other major lines would see this public trend and the public wants and at least offer non-smoking cabins. Half the ship would work nicely and would actually save money to the ship line immediately. They didn't have a problem giving us multi-choices at the Lido buffet. I guess Carnival is not a bottom line profit company to their shareholders or else they would have done this years ago from all the compliants they have recieved at the pursur's desk over smoke issues in cabins and I suspect many of the excutives at Carnival are smokers and could care less. Next!

[TravelWorks]

One reason we don't book balcony rooms is the smoke problem. Why pay extra to smell smoke from your neighbors? We take the money we save on our inside cabins and buy those fancy smoke eliminator machines, plug in wall freshners(with several drop cords you can have about a dozen), bring our own sheets/towels/bedspreads and a bottle of miracle smokless spray to clean down the walls and ceiling first day. And we just got a mini-carpet shampoo machine to remove the smell from the carpets. We can get all this extra stuff into one big suitcase so it's not too bad to lug on the ship. In about 2 hours of clean-up we have a smoke free room for the week. That is what it is going to take if you had a smoker in your room before you. Forget the ship doing it. They don't clean the walls, the ceiling or shampoo the carpets between each guest. Many don't change the bedspread either. If you had a heavy smoker in your cabin the previous weeks it will absorb a full week's worth of smoke in all those areas. I'm not complaining, it's a fact of life if you want to cruise in a smokless cabin on Carnival. Disney does have non-smoking cabins but then the price Disney charges you only offset having to not bring all that stuff to cleanse the room. These people who tell you they have never had a problem were lucky enough to have had previous non-smokers for many weeks and that might be possible with you on your week but remember, you can pick your ship even if brand new, pick the week to go and where you want to go to but you can never pick those 2000+/- people who will cruise before you or with you. That really is the luck of the draw.

It's a fact we non-smokers will have to live with until Carnival brings their smoking policies up to the 21st Century. Non-smoking rooms in hotels/motels started world-wide back in the early 1980's. You would think after 25 years Carnival and other major lines would see this public trend and the public wants and at least offer non-smoking cabins. Half the ship would work nicely and would actually save money to the ship line immediately. They didn't have a problem giving us multi-choices at the Lido buffet. I guess Carnival is not a bottom line profit company to their shareholders or else they would have done this years ago from all the compliants they have recieved at the pursur's desk over smoke issues in cabins and I suspect many of the excutives at Carnival are smokers and could care less. Next!

 

Are you serious???

[TravelWorks]

I have done several cruises...I do not smoke...and haven't noticed it at all in our cabin!!!

 

But I go on the newest ships each year...

& The Valor smelled wonderful...except in the casino!

 

I do like getting Ocean View rooms for the reason of the possible balcony smoker problem...

 

Don't have to worry about smoke in an O.V.

 

 

I agree with the poster who said...I am much more inclined to have a breathing problem from the women who take baths in cheap perfume!:eek:

[SurprisingWoman]

I got an "official" response from Carnival, which was:

 

"Unlike hotels, our ships operate at 100% capacity every week. Unfortunately it is impossible to enforce non-smoking cabins when the doors are closed. Once someone has smoked there, it's been done. So we don't designate cabins as smoking or non-smoking and prefer to manage the best we can with cleaning and sanitizing.

It is typical that most major cruise lines do not designate cabins as smoking/non-smoking."

 

It is awful that since they operate at 100% capacity, they do not feel as though they need to be concerned with the health of their clients.

 

I have only been asthmatic since 2002. My pneumonia triggered my allergies in an awful way and now I have to use unscented soap and lotions and it is just a mess. I am on a steroid inhaler and I have an albuterol inhaler in my purse, my car, my husbands car, every jacket I own, my school bag, my nightstand, by my computer...

 

I have nothing against smokers. I am just concerned not so much with the smell but sleeping with the lingering chemicals that smoking emits. I can tell when I have been around second hand smoke too much for literally days. If I "choose" to be around the smoke in a bar or some other location that is one thing, but to have to sleep in it can make things pretty awful. That is a lot of time inhaling.

 

I think that Carnival has not changed it's policy because they constantly sell their cruises out, and that is what the above says to me. If they considered how much easier it would be to NOT have to super clean rooms that were inhabited by non-smokers and how much good will it would foster with people then they would change. I was flamed for telling the representative on another board that it was a terrible policy and needed to be changed. It was due to the tone my post took, which was inadvertent, but honestly, how can you not support non-smoking cabins in today’s world?

 

I am going on a charter cruise in January and booked my room (Liberty 6262) this morning. It will be three unrelated people in my cabin and the joy of being able to open the door and hear the ocean is important to us. We will just have to deal if the people on either side smoke.

 

I like the idea of having a cleaned cabin and wouldn't mind doing it myself, but I don't have a lot of those things and my suitcase will be filled with electrical cords and fairy lights and bathing suits and air freshner and...

 

Thanks for everyone's advice. Y'all are incredible.

Brenda

[NormanW]

http://www.o3ozone.com/ozone_generators_air_purifiers/ozone_generators_air_water_purifiers/pro_9000_tv24_ozone_generator_timer.htm

 

15 minutes with this in the room and it becomes a non smoking room. :)

 

Does wonders on cars too. Those used car guys love these things.

 

Cheers,

 

Norman

[Legoli]

Carnival actually ionizes the cabins that previous guests have smoked in before the next guests comes. If you have a medical allergy you can actually request this to be done in advance. Just contact Carnival's Guest Access Services department @ 1-800-438-6744 Ext. 70025. They're awesome in accomodating guests' with special requirements.

[mkk]

Just FYI..I think the newer Carnival ships automaticly ionize/clean the rooms of smokers after past guests if there is a telltale odor. There are monitors up on the bridge that can tell what cabin there are smokers in by the air quality (I'm guessing). We were on a cruise last year and while on the bridge the 1st officer showed us where our room was on his monitor and said.."Oh you're smokers"..We are but only smoked in the room first thing in the a.m. or right before bed..so they are very sensitive.

Good luck..I hope you have a smoke-free cruise.

[F5Loar]

Quote"There are monitors up on the bridge that can tell what cabin there are smokers in by the air quality <<" but yet previous poster says they cannot control the issue once the door is closed. I agree the response from Carnival over why they can't have non-smoking rooms is a upper management cop out. They can do it and they can control it. A super senstive smoke detector in each room is way cheaper then week after week of super cleaning especially if it can be managed from the bridge. I'll stick to my original speculation that upper management at Carnvial are smokers and could care less what their customers want in regards to health and safety issues. Until I hear from an upper management personal that tells me otherwise I'm sticking to my belief. It's the old smokers stick up for smokers buddy system. If Bob was a non-smoker it would have already been done.

Or call me on it and start offering non-smoking cabins. Come on guys, Disney hasn't had a problem doing it and they stay booked out at premium prices.

Hopefully in my lifetime before I stop cruising for vacations I will see non-smoking cabins offered on all cruiselines but until then I'll just pack my extra suitcase full of smoke cleansers. I least I can sleep clean all week.

[NormanW]

But before you anti big brother types (off the record I certainly do not adore him!) spout off...

 

They are ionization smoke detectors. They are there for YOUR protection in case a butt (the cigarette kind not your toosh!) falls and starts something a smoldering 'cuz a fire at sea is no laughing matter.

 

So...those voltage levels registered on the annunciator are gonna be higher in cabins where folks are suckin' back on yole cancer sticks vs. non smoking folk. Pretty neat huh?

 

Actually the system is rather dated compared to the state of the art flame sensors going into use (hopefully soon!). We have them and they really put the threat of fire into another dimension and the insurance underwriters' eyebrows certainly took a rise on the demonstrably superior response to action times when an incident would rear its ugly head!

 

Cheers,

 

Norman