A ? for HAL non-smokers

[Lizzie68]

Cruise Critic has lots of wonderful little navigational tools. Here's how to use the one that lets you find a person's posts:

When you see their name making a post, click on it. That will take you to a personal information screen with some tabs. Click on the one that says "statistics". Under that heading will be a choice to "Find all posts by ...". Click on that, and you will find an ordering of posts by that person.

If you click on the title of each, you get the entire thread; if you click on the first words of their post, you get only that post.

 

This is one quick way to find a recent post you want to go back to when you can remember who made it, but can't remember where it was.

 

Backtracking from all those clicks will get you back to where you started.

 

Have fun!

 

Thank you, Ruth, for that info. Not sure I will ever use it as it sounds like a lot of effort but I guess it depends on the reason for finding something.

[RuthC]

Thank you' date=' Ruth, for that info. Not sure I will ever use it as it sounds like a lot of effort but I guess it depends on the reason for finding something.[/quote']

 

You're welcome. It really isn't as much effort as it may sound; I tend to give detailed instructions. It should take max 10 seconds to follow the trail I wrote out.

Now you know, if the day comes you do want to use it.

[kjw869]

Thank you' date=' Ruth, for that info. Not sure I will ever use it as it sounds like a lot of effort but I guess it depends on the reason for finding something.[/quote']

 

Ruth is someone who has cruised on HAL for years. She is well respected and many have learned a lot from her posts. I already owe her a box of chocolates!!

Edited March 29, 2014 by kjw869

[idiebabe]

For those that take these boards more seriously than the national debt, let me say that my comment that I wouldn't sail on HAL until they changed their perfume policy was tongue and cheek. It was intended to mock many of the anti-smoker respondents whose comments include threats to stop sailing HA or who have actually done so although, interestingly enough, they are still active on the HAL boards. I can listen to both sides of a discussion but I am really turned off by the use of threats whether dealing with smoking, wine policy or downsizing of the Adagio Quartet or whatever. And when folks, whom I don't know personally, tell me they stopped sailing a cruise line, I put those comments in the category of "who cares." It certainly doesn't lend to the discourse of the particular subject under discussion.

 

Absolutely! Well said!

 

Well, you are doing your part! Twenty six of your 93 posts have been about smoking? You are certainly passing the word around. I see it started when a "300 pound gentleman" smoked cigars 24/7 on the balcony next door to you last year.

 

I wouldn't like someone smoking 24/7 next to us either, but I'm not obsessed with the subject. In fact, in my 1,700+ posts, probably only 10 are smoking related. It's not my job to inform future cruisers, it can be read on HAL's website.

 

I hope you have a wonderful smokeless cruise on the Celebrity Millennium. You've made a wise choice switching to Celebrity because of HALs smoking policy and informing everyone not to book a certain cabin on the Rotterdam.

 

She may not have her smokeless cruise on Celebrity! People are "sneaking" them on their balconies so no 100% Guarantee on that. If she does have someone next to her that sneaks them and she happens to be out there and catches them (usually late at night or very early a.m.) she'll be spending her cruise "policing" her neighbor and calling Front Desk. :eek:

Edited March 29, 2014 by idiebabe

[RuthC]

Ruth is someone who has cruised on HAL for years. She is well respected and many have learned a lot from her posts. I already owe her a box of chocolates!!

 

Aw, shucks. :o Thanks for saying that.

Now, about collecting those chocolates.... :D

[kjw869]

Absolutely! Well said!

 

 

 

She may not have her smokeless cruise on Celebrity! People are "sneaking" them on their balconies so no 100% Guarantee on that. If she does have someone next to her that sneaks them and she happens to be out there and catches them (usually late at night or very early a.m.) she'll be spending her cruise "policing" her neighbor and calling Front Desk. :eek:

 

You are so right. Friends were on the Celebrity Solstice a while back and smelled cigarette smoke every night on their balcony. It was always late at night except when they were in port in San Juan, PR. I wonder if Celebrity issues "Smoking Police" badges to some of their passengers! ;-)

[chrispb]

I wonder if Celebrity issues "Smoking Police" badges to some of their passengers! ;-)

 

 

And I think we can guess who'll have Chief Snitch on his badge??:D:D

[POA1]

Thank you' date=' Ruth, for that info. Not sure I will ever use it as it sounds like a lot of effort but I guess it depends on the reason for finding something.[/quote']

 

I find it useful when I am trying to locate something that a particular person posted but I can't remember the thread.

[Lizzie68]

Ruth is someone who has cruised on HAL for years. She is well respected and many have learned a lot from her posts. I already owe her a box of chocolates!!

 

Yes, I am already learning that. And she is never, ever snarky or mean.:)

[momatibm]

Yes' date=' I am already learning that. And she is never, ever snarky or mean.:)[/quote']

 

That is what we love about RuthC -- accurate information and no snarkiness. Besides, she also adds interesting side comments.

 

Unfortunately, RuthC, I am sorry, my chocolates are allocated to my grandbabies -- who aren't such babies anymore.

Edited March 29, 2014 by momatibm

[kjw869]

That is what we love about RuthC -- accurate information and no snarkiness. Besides, she also adds interesting side comments.

 

Unfortunately, RuthC, I am sorry, my chocolates are allocated to my grandbabies -- who aren't such babies anymore.

 

We took our 15-year-old granddaughter on a 11-day cruise on the Noiordam in January-her first cruise. My wife and I gave her our chocolates and the steward left her extras. She eats two a day and that's it. She will replenish her "stock" in May, when she will be with us on an Alaskan cruise.

[AccessTech]

We just came back from a Panama Canal cruise; had a SS Suite (8051) and our neighbor seemed to always be smoking on the veranda when we were outside. 8051 was also under the pool area and noisy. Out last trip for ever.

[kjw869]

We just came back from a Panama Canal cruise; had a SS Suite (8051) and our neighbor seemed to always be smoking on the veranda when we were outside. 8051 was also under the pool area and noisy. Out last trip for ever.

 

Sorry you had a bad trip, and welcome to Cruise Critic.

 

Did you read the FAQs on HAL's website regarding the smoking policy?

 

Years ago on our second cruise, we also were in an SS cabin under pool area. The moving of the loungers in the morning woke us up nearly every morning. After that, the Deck Plans became my best friend.

[sheba2008]

I'm a non-smoker who has absolutely no problem with smoke on HAL ships.

I do not book balconies, and don't gamble, so those smoking areas don't have an impact on me (I can pass by the Casino, or go around another way.)

The outdoor pool smoking area is a fairly small spot, which I can easily avoid by going to the other side. I do love to sit out on the promenade, and that is not a smoking area, as per the HAL smoking policy. The Observation Deck is, and I just stay away from it.

 

I believe that smokers have a right to smoke, and therefore a right to designated smoking areas. I have a right to know where those areas are, and a responsibility to stay away from them. Since balconies don't come into the picture for me, then I'm not bothered.

 

 

Well said RuthC,

I'm a NON smokers but my husband smokes, if the smoke is unplaesant for you (anybody) DO NOT pass the smokers area, is that so difficult?

I saw people passing a smoking area and waving there hands up and down, why pass there, go another way !!!!!

We d'ont book balconies so my husband smokes at the smoking area, no problem.

When smoking on balconies bother you, please book with another line until HAL

want to chance it.

 

sheba2008

 

I hate all the smoking threads, both sides (pro and con smoking) need to be a bit more tolerant !!!!!