bert425

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Here you go from Hal's website. This should answer all your questions on smoking.

 

For the comfort of all of our guests, all staterooms (cabins), showrooms and most other indoor areas are designated non-smoking. While smoking is not permitted in staterooms, guests are allowed to smoke on stateroom verandahs. Smoking is also permitted on certain other designated, outside decks. The designated smoking areas for all ships are as follows unless otherwise noted.

 

• Stateroom verandahs
  
• Casino (Active players only)
  
• Seaview Bar
  
• Outside Decks
  
  • Sports Deck
    
  • Observation Deck (ms Prinsendam, ms Eurodam, ms Nieuw Amsterdam, ms Noordam, ms Oosterdam, ms Westerdam, and ms Zuiderdam only)
    

   

 

Cigar and pipe smoking is not allowed anywhere inside the ship; it is only permitted on the outside decks where smoking is otherwise allowed and on stateroom verandahs. Electronic cigarettes are permitted in staterooms but not in other public areas of the ship other than on outside decks designated as smoking areas.

Any guest who smokes inside staterooms in violation of our policy will be charged a US$250 cleaning fee per day of violation.

Thank you SO much.

exactly what I was looking for -- for some reason, I could NOT find that info on the HAL site!

(my Cigar smoking Brother will be thrilled he can smoke on his Verandah. I'm thrilled that we're 20 cabins away :))

Apologies if this has been covered to death, but I was unable to find an answer.

we're going on our first HAL cruise (Noodham) on Nov 3.

I know that balcony smoking is allowed (my smoking Sister in Law was happy about that).

but what about in the casino, or bars in the ship?

is smoking allowed in common areas?

Just off the Noordam on the 12th of July and had no problems with the AC in our inside stateroom. We kept the thermostat in the middle almost all the time. If it was turned all the way down on the cool side, the room would get quite chilly. The opposite was true when we turned it all the way up on the warm side.

 

I never felt like the AC wasn't working well. In the main dinning room and the Lido deck, often times I felt a bit too cold--and I am almost always warm! I'm not complaining, though. I'd rather be cool than warm :)

agreed! If one gets cold, one can put on a sweater, or another layer.

when one gets hot, you can only be SO naked.

:)

good to hear the A/C appears to be working better than some are reporting.