Overview of Smoking Policies by Cruise Line

[admin]

I found an article with a detailed breakdown of different cruise line's policies on smoking.
I recently went on a Disney cruise and they allowed smoking by the adults-only pool and on our private balcony.
Here's the article listing smoking policies for:

Carnival Cruise Lines, Celebrity Cruises, Costa Cruises, Cunard Lines, Disney Cruise Line, Holland America, MSC Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises, Princess Cruises, Regent Seven Seas Cruises, and Royal Caribbean International.
Overview of Smoking Policies by Cruise Line

 

[python]

Good info Kevin.

 

[smooth]

I wonder how much has changed (for the worse) from this two year old info.

 

[baronsamedi]

Looks like I want to cruise like a Norwegian! :rofl:

 

[troll]

I have traveled on RCCL for about 15 cruises. The Navigator class of ships have an indoor smoking lounge on the prominade desk. It has nice leather chairs, a bar and a big screen TV. On one cruise the captain joined us for a cigar. Other RCCL allow smoking on the outside decks on the starboard side. My favorite place is under the life boats on lounge chairs. On an 11 day cruise MY wife and I met fellow pipe smokers on the pool deck. On couple was a retired DR. from York England while the other was a retired salesman from NJ. On our second day we posted a hand made sign of our favorite table that said, "reserved for pipe and cigar smokers only". Nobody removed our sign and we had or table for ourselves for the rest of the cruise

 

[didache]

My wife and I do a fair amount of cruising in Europe. Most of these have been river cruises, but there have been half a dozen big ship cruises in the Mediterranean, the Aegean and the Adriatic. In ALL cases, the rules were much the same as in a European hotel: you could not smoke indoors, but you were free to smoke outside, whether that was a private balcony, or on the top deck. None of them prohibited smoking entirely.
Mike

 

[fitzy]

I went on a Norwegian cruise last year and the cigar bar was a great place to watch TV and smoke in comfy leather chairs/couches.
If I had a complaint it was that the cigar bar was a little too small and the ventilation wasn't the best.

 

[buster]

We went on our first cruise last year. Royal Caribbean, Alure Of The Sea was the ships name. You could smoke in the casino and there was a smoking section by one of the adult pools. I took along some Snus and saw quite a few people dipping Copenhagen to get through the day when you weren't close to the smoking areas.

 

[mso489]

Understood that shipboard is a little more enclosed and controlled than the general public might understand at first. I can see that anyone including me might not want the next table's round of Robustos with their entrees, especially if it is a chef cooked meal with lots of flavors and subtleties. Likewise, you probably don't want someone else's menthol cigarettes or other tobacco treat haunting your cabin. Still, it seems that most ships have enough weather deck and bistro type drinking areas to accommodate smoking in authorized spaces. I'm glad it is still possible to have a pipe aboard a cruise ship, including a river cruise, if you learn and observe the rules. That seems fair. I don't want to set off anyone's asthma or COPD, but I would like a bowl of English blend (for example) in the evening.

 

[mso489]

If you can find a cruise line that provides a comfortable no-pressure atmosphere with fellow passengers you can tolerate, a cruise provides a number of advantages including a travel situation where you can cover a lot of territory and a number of highlight cities or locations without having to pack and repack every night or three, and where your meals and libations are generally high quality, whatever you are able to arrange ashore. For people with mobility limitations, it is a big advantage, which is why cruises get steady business from seniors. Also you don't have to drive much or at all on foreign roadways, on the left side of the road, etc. I've done enough of that to know its pleasures and hazards. Cruises are probably somewhat too communal to constitute a total travel "diet," but they certainly fill a niche.

 

[stranger]

Our honeymoon was an Alaskan cruise a couple of years ago. The smoking room loved it when I came in as I was the only one on board who smoked a pipe. Good conversation but very little ventilation. I wished that I was allowed to smoke on my balcony, but that was a firm no-no.

 

[Briar Baron]

Interesting coincidence, I just returned from a cruise yesterday on the Golden Princess (went around the south pacific from Sydney).

Took the pipe but basically only outside areas allowed for smoking. (The sports bar, called the "Cigar Bar" had its status changed to non smoking but retained the name......
Even outside it was only is small areas for smoking and usually in windiest part of the ship I had a private balcony but smoking there was prohibited also (smoke detector there to ensure compliance).