Celebrity 1A vs 1C - smoking area?

I have a cruise booked on the Reflection March 28 - I'm a researcher so I searched all over here to get ideas for the best cabin. We were in 6242 - a Verandah - I know it has a bit of an obstructed view- from what I read it was a boat that ends at the bottom of the balcony, so not completely blocked. I read that the balcony was a bit bigger in that cabin, and I liked the location by the elevators.

I saw today that there was a price drop - I called and they said they could upgrade me to a 1A - 6239. I took a quick glance and it seemed to be ok, so I took it.

But then I checked on it - and I realized that it is on the other side of the ship and I have heard many people comment that they could smell the smoke as that side of the ship has the smoking area. I am very sensitive to smoke - hate it.......

So I called back and got my old room back - did I make a mistake? Was 6239 Category 1A that much better than 1C 6242??

Would appreciate thoughts or comments...

thx!

Did they have any 1A's on the starboard side? The smoking area on deck 5 is on the port side.

No, the rep said I only had a choice of 2 cabins and they were both on the smoking side....

I would go with you original choice. I am betting when Celebrity priced that deck for the Solstice it was a 2C for cabin 6239 and then when they found out it was a preferred hump cabin they raised the category to make more money. Typical Celebrity thinking when they allowed smoking on deck 5 port side. I guess they didn't think when they are docked that smoke rises straight up. Someday they will only allow smoking above the cabin decks.

The better place to ask this is on the Celebrity board, where they have a sticky where people had reviewed their cabins on S class ships. EM