To respiration ... or not to smoke. Nothing fires up voyage travelers more than this issue. Indeed, analyse discover the posts on Cruise Critic's communication boards -- but we monish you: Put on your oven mitts before you unstoppered whatever arrange with "smoking" in the title. It'll be flushed hot.This supply is so bomb (pun intended) that smokers ofttimes see injured and maltreated and slink absent in shame, and non-smokers are ofttimes proud and self-righteous and ... well, meet stark rude. On the added hand, there are non-smokers whose salutation is to springy and permit springy and smokers who verify the function that "hell, it's ease legal, so consent me alone."
In the United States, the sort of smokers is descending -- and teen grouping aren't play to respiration as such as they utilised to -- but digit in quaternary adults ease lights up. (In California, the sort is fireman to digit in seven.) In aggregation and Asia, respiration is such more prevalent, though that's dynamical too. In the terminal whatever years, the governments of France, Ireland, Italia and the U.K. hit illegal every interior respiration countrywide. Still, whatever board that sails with a super dweller or continent force is extremity to be smokier than a board filled with North Americans.
Cruise lines, though, hit mostly condemned a more medium advise to respiration policies. revival Cruises, an every non-smoking line, no individual exists. Carnival's Paradise, which started chronicle as a smoke-free craft and stayed that artefact for sextet years, today allows respiration onboard. But individual field voyage lines hit fresh introduced rattling limiting policies, as hit whatever small-ship "boutique" lines and river voyage vessels. But for added field companies, the policies are not nearly as constraining as most non-smokers desire they were.
It's an supply of "spoilage" (the industry's lingo for unsold cabins) that keeps voyage lines from designating whatever cabins non-smoking, in the style of hotel rooms. "It would inform an listing mess," says a representative for CLIA, the voyage industry's authorised modify association. "The voyage lines' consent direction grouping poverty the ships to canvass flooded at every times; you can't do that if you ordered divagation non-smoking rooms."
We're presenting the policies for you in digit neat, order package, but first, here are a pair of pointers:
Most Restrictive: revival Cruises (and its start "no respiration anywhere" policies) haw today be defunct, but the postulate is aware and well, to a point, on archipelago Cruises. That voyage distinction not exclusive hails Renaissance's past chair as its cheater but also sails with Renaissance's past ships! And patch respiration is permissible in digit diminutive areas only, its constraining policies crapper accomplish emotion in the hunch of modify the most psychoneurotic travel chimney. All heptad of U.K.-based P&O Cruises ships -- Artemis, Oceana, Ventura, Aurora, Oriana and Arcadia -- are completely smoke-free in exclusive spaces, with illumination up restricted to whatever correct areas and on cabin balconies. Another U.K. line, Fred. Olsen, also bans interior respiration fleetwide.
What happens if you intend caught respiration in your cabin or on your balcony? Check discover this lowercase ditty in the archipelago Cruises Guest Ticket Contract:
"Guests choosing to reject the contract haw be mortal to monetary penalties -- up to the schedule paying for lawmaking -- that will be imposed to counterbalance the costs related with the required cleanup of stateroom furnishings, verandas and close embellish and improvement areas. Guests are also beatific reminded that the Master of the craft force the correct to land whatever guests, without preceding warning, for ravishment of this contract and said guest(s) shall be answerable for every fees levied by governmental or quasi-governmental authorities, every costs related with repatriation and vessel's expiration of revenues from said unnatural landing or costs related with repairs or equal of accouterment as a termination of oxidization of improvement areas institute to be caused by said guest(s)."
Don't feature you weren't warned.
Least Restrictive: If you are a carriage and poverty to reddened up at whatever time, anywhere, aggregation yourself a Pullmantur vacation. This Spain-based voyage and journeying activeness runs individual cruises in the Mediterranean. You crapper respiration during your massage, between courses at meals, in the blistering tubs, during keno ... All in every you crapper totally revel, in bliss, pretty such anywhere.
Balconies: Considerate smokers who poverty to small breach their neighbors should countenance at getting a balconied stateroom as farther aftermost as doable since the respiration tends to advise backwards patch the board is underway. Conversely, huffy non-smokers should countenance at engagement their verandahs as farther nervy as possible, for the aforementioned reason. If that isn't possible, non-smokers requirement to modify their balcony-use schedule or meet tolerate the smoke.
Public Spaces: Most ships hit designated respiration areas, commonly on digit lateral or added of the ship. If respiration is permissible on embellish on the opening side, that's where smokers should go to reddened up and where non-smokers should refrain sitting. You'd conceive that's pretty basic, but whatever a fisticuffs has started over fag respiration because digit lateral or added is in the "wrong" space.
It's essential to state that shipboard organisation cannot modify policy. For example, they cannot and will not communicate someone to kibosh respiration on that person's balcony (except on voyage lines where it's prohibited), but they crapper and will communicate someone to advise to a respiration Atlantic if that mortal is in digit that is understandably non-smoking. Avoid confrontation; permit the ship's organisation appendage the asking.
And now, on to our line-by-line roundup of policies (policies are oracular with regard to cigar or tube respiration eliminate where noted):
Azamara Club Cruises
Where You Can Smoke: Smoking is permissible in the opening lateral aftermost country of the Looking Glass Lounge and the starboard nervy country of the bet deck.
Where You Can't: The rest of the board is completely non-smoking, including every cabins and balconies.
Carnival Cruise Lines
Where You Can Smoke: Cigarette respiration in unstoppered venues is exclusive permissible in Carnival's diversion clubs as substantially as in designated areas within the cards and cards bar. Smoking (including cigars) is permissible in designated exterior unstoppered embellish areas (starboard side) of every ships. Additionally, respiration is allowed in the talking clubs of the mass ships: Carnival Destiny, Carnival Triumph, Carnival Victory, Carnival Spirit, Carnival Pride, Carnival Legend, Carnival Miracle, Carnival Conquest, Carnival Glory, Carnival Valor, Carnival Liberty, Carnival Freedom, and Carnival Splendor.
Where You Can't: Everywhere but above enumerated spaces are non-smoking, including the dining shack and most unstoppered rooms.
Effective Dec 1, 2011, respiration will be illegal in every staterooms. Those guests in balcony accommodations will be permissible to respiration cigarettes and cigars correct on the balcony. Spa staterooms -- currently featured on Carnival Splendor, Carnival Dream and Carnival Magic -- will move to rest every smoke-free, including on the balconies.
Cigar and Pipe Smoking: Cigar respiration is permissible in the talking clubs.
Celebrity Cruises
Where You Can Smoke: Cigarette respiration is exclusive permissible in designated interior and exterior areas. Examples earmark the opening lateral of the bet embellish and sundecks on apiece ship; the opening lateral of the Sunset Bar on Celebrity Century and on Celebrity's Millennium collection of ships; and the opening side, aft, correct of Winter Garden on Celebrity Galaxy and Celebrity Mercury.
Where You Can't: Smoking is illegal in cabins and on balconies. Also, respiration is not permissible in whatever dining venue, casino, theater, hallway, lift or corridor. On Celebrity's newborn Solstice, the Lawn Club and the Sunset Bar at the Lawn Club will not earmark smoking.
Cigar and Pipe Smoking: Cigar and tube respiration is allowed exclusive in specially designated sections of the unstoppered decks.
Costa Cruises
Where You Can Smoke: Smoking is permissible on the unstoppered decks, in cabins, including balconies, and in designated respiration areas in most unstoppered rooms.
Where You Can't: All restaurants and exhibit lounges are non-smoking.
Cruise & Maritime Voyages
Where You Can Smoke: Smoking is permissible on digit designated areas on the unstoppered decks.
Where You Can't: All cabins, restaurants, unstoppered flat and exhibit lounges are non-smoking
Crystal Cruises
Where You Can Smoke: Smoking is permissible in cabins, on unstoppered decks, and in designated respiration areas in most exerciser and lounges.
Where You Can't: Smoking is illegal on verandahs of every staterooms and suites aboard. As well, every dining venues, including the Crystal Dining Room, Bistro, Lido Cafe and deciding restaurants, are non-smoking, as is the Galaxy Lounge (the important exhibit lounge).
Cigar and Pipe Smoking: Cigar and tube respiration is permissible either in the Connoisseur Club or on the unstoppered decks (except for Lido Deck).
Cunard Line
Where You Can Smoke: On Queen Jewess 2 and Queen Victoria, respiration is permissible in cabins, including balconies, and in the designated respiration sections of most exerciser and lounges. On Queen falls there are also limitations on the unstoppered decks. Smoking is exclusive permissible on the starboard lateral of Deck 3 as substantially as the nervy and aftermost areas of Deck 10.
Where You Can't: Elevators, theaters, and the accumulation are non-smoking, as are every restaurants on Queen Jewess 2.
Cigar and Pipe Smoking: Cigar and tube respiration is permissible in Churchill's Cigar Lounge aboard Queen Jewess 2 and Queen Victoria.
Disney Cruises
Where You Can Smoke: Smoking is permissible on the starboard lateral of every unstoppered decks (except nearby Mickey's Pool) and cabin balconies.
Where You Can't: Smoking is illegal in every interior areas, including cabins.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Line
Where You Can Smoke: Guests are exclusive be healthy to respiration on cabin balconies and in specially designated areas on open-air decks.
Where You Can't: Smoking is illegal in every interior areas on every Fred. Olsen ships.
Holland USA Line
Where You Can Smoke: Smoking is permissible in cabins (until Jan 15, 2012), including cabin balconies, on unstoppered decks and in designated areas in most unstoppered spaces.
Where You Can't: All restaurants are non-smoking, as is the exhibit loaf during performances. Effective Jan 15, 2012, Holland America's newborn respiration contract designates cabins as non-smoking areas. Smoking will ease be, however, permissible on cabin balconies.
Louis Cruise Lines
Where You Can Smoke: Smoking is permissible on the unstoppered decks and in designated respiration areas in most unstoppered rooms.
Where You Can't: All cabins are non-smoking, as substantially as the dining room.
Cigar and Pipe Smoking: Cigar respiration is permissible exclusive on the unstoppered decks.
MSC Cruises
Where You Can Smoke: Smoking is exclusive allowed indoors in the cigar rooms, the casinos and digit sacred lounge, and exterior on digit lateral of the solarise deck.
Where You Can't: Each MSC board is today 90 proportionality smoke-free. Smoking is illegal in dining rooms, theaters and cabins (including cabin balconies).
Norwegian Cruise Line
Where You Can Smoke: Smoking is permissible in designated ares on unstoppered decks, in casinos and in cigar bars. Norse Epic, Norse Gem, Norse Pearl, Norse Dawn and Norse Spirit hit cigar bars. Until Jan 1, 2012, respiration is allowed in cabins and on balconies.
Where You Can't: All interior unstoppered areas eliminate casinos and cigar exerciser are non-smoking. Effective Jan 1, 2012, respiration will be illegal in cabins. Cigarette respiration will ease be allowed on balconies; however, cigar and tube respiration on balconies will be prohibited.
Ocean Village
Where You Can Smoke: Smoking is permissible in cabins, on unstoppered decks and in designated respiration areas of most unstoppered rooms.
Where You Can't: Restaurants, staircases, elevators and corridors are every non-smoking.
Oceania Cruises
Where You Can Smoke: Smoking is permissible exclusive in the aftermost opening lateral of Horizons, and the starboard nervy country of the exterior Pool Deck.
Where You Can't: All added areas are smoke-free. This includes every cabins and balconies, restaurants, unstoppered flat and unstoppered decks eliminate for the digit designated respiration areas.
P & O Cruises
Where You Can Smoke: Passengers who desire to reddened up crapper respiration on stateroom balconies and on destined unstoppered decks.
Where You Can't: Smoking is illegal in every capsulate unstoppered areas and in the cabins.
Princess Cruises
Where You Can Smoke: Smoking is permissible in cabins, including balconies, on the unstoppered decks and in designated areas in most unstoppered rooms. After Jan 15, 2012, respiration will move to be allowed in the Churchill's cigar lounge, a country of the ballroom and cards and a assets of the unstoppered decks.
Where You Can't: Smoking is illegal in exhibit lounges, elevators, dining flat and every matter assist areas. Effective Jan 15, 2012, Princess will no individual earmark respiration in cabins and balconies crossways its fleet.
Cigar and Pipe Smoking: Cigar and tube respiration is permissible exclusive on the unstoppered decks.
Pullmantur Cruises
Where You Can Smoke: Smoking is permissible everyplace eliminate in the non-smoking areas of the important restaurants. The distinction asks passengers to study "the norms of beatific activity and civility."
Where You Can't: The exclusive non-smoking areas are in the important restaurants.
Regent Seven Seas Cruises
Where You Can Smoke: RSSC allows respiration on unstoppered decks, in casinos and at every bet bars. Smoking is also permissible in the Connoisseur Club on Seven Seas Mariner, Navigator and Voyager, and in designated respiration areas in lounges on apiece ship.
Where You Can't: RSSC does not earmark respiration in suites, staterooms or on clannish balconies. Smoking is also not permissible in whatever capsulate dining areas.
Cigar and Pipe Smoking: Cigar respiration is permissible in the Connoisseur Club on Seven Seas Mariner, Navigator and Voyager, and in the designated Atlantic of the bet forbid on those threesome ships. Pipe respiration is permissible exclusive in the Connoisseur Club on Mariner, Navigator and Voyager, and is illegal in unstoppered embellish areas and on every added ships.
Royal Caribbean
Where You Can Smoke: Smoking is permissible exclusive on cabin balconies, on the starboard lateral of unstoppered decks and in the designated respiration areas of unstoppered rooms.
Where You Can't: Smoking is illegal in every cabins (except on balconies) and in digit unstoppered shack on apiece ship. In addition, as always, dining areas and exhibit lounges will be non-smoking, along with the opening lateral of unstoppered decks.
Saga Cruises
Where You Can Smoke: Smoking is permissible in cabins, including balconies, in the designated respiration areas in whatever lounges, and on unstoppered decks.
Where You Can't: Smoking is illegal in the dining room, cinema, theater, bill shack and library, as substantially as in the loaf during recreation and lectures.
Cigar and Pipe Smoking: Cigar and tube respiration is permissible on unstoppered decks, in the bunk take of Club variable on Saga Rose and the View edifice on Saga Ruby.
Seabourn Cruise Line
Where You Can Smoke: Smoking is permissible in temporary suites, on the starboard lateral of the attending loaf and on unstoppered decks (including the Sky Bar area), with the omission of the exterior country of Veranda Cafe.
Where You Can't: Smoking is illegal in every unstoppered flat eliminate the starboard lateral of the attending lounge.
Cigar and Pipe Smoking: Cigar and tube respiration is illegal anywhere indoors, including in cabins, but is allowed after party in an exterior Atlantic nearby Sky Bar.
SeaDream Yacht Club
Where You Can Smoke: Smoking is permissible exterior on Decks 3, 4 and 6.
Where You Can't: Smoking is illegal in every interior spaces, including cabins, and exterior on Decks 2 and 5.
Silversea Cruises
Where You Can Smoke: Smoking is permissible in specifically designated tables in whatever exerciser and lounges and specifically designated correct areas on the unstoppered deck. Cigarette respiration is also permissible in cabins.
Where You Can't: Cabin balconies, The Restaurant, indoors at the Terrace Cafe, Saletta, the Show Lounge, Card/Conference Room, Library, Spa/Fitness Centre, cyberspace Point and Gift Shops/Boutiques are smoke-free.
Cigar and Pipe Smoking: Cigar and tube respiration are exclusive permissible in the Connoisseur's Corner and in specifically designated correct areas on unstoppered Decks 9 and 10 aboard Silver Shadow, Silver Whisper and Silver Spirit, and unstoppered Deck 9 aboard Silver Cloud and Silver Wind
Thomson Cruises
Where You Can Smoke: Smoking is exclusive permissible in strictly designated areas of the unstoppered deck.
Where You Can't: Smoking is not permissible anywhere exclusive the ship.
Windstar Cruises
Where You Can Smoke: Smoking is allowed on the unstoppered decks, in cabins and on the opening lateral of the loaf on every ships. It is also permissible in the cards and on the opening lateral of the Compass Rose on Wind Surf only.
Where You Can't: Smoking is illegal in the restaurants on every Windstar ships.
Cigar and Pipe Smoking: Cigar and tube respiration is permissible on the unstoppered decks only.
--by Jana Jones. Updated by Doug Newman.
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