My wife and I enjoy cruising and we've always cruised with Carnival Cruise Lines. Today I learned that Carnival has apparently given into the anti-tobacco crowd and gone PC. They have given notice that they will no longer allow their guests with balcony rooms to be able to smoke on their balconies. If you want to smoke a pipe then you can only do so in certain designated areas on the upper deck of the ship. If you do smoke on your balcony then they will charge you a $250 suite "clean-up" fee at the end of the cruise. It's apparently outraging many of their guests as about 15% of their cruisers smoke. As many have said, it's rather hypocritical that Carnival doesn't have any problem with alcohol since they make money on all of the alcoholic beverages aboard ship, but yet they want to curb smoking as not to "offend" their non-smoking guests. I have a feeling quite a few folks will be changing cruise lines.
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