Non-smoking balconies???

[kona_wahine]

Just off the Glory and found smokers on balconies several times. No one even seemed to care and didn't try to hide it. Included cigarettes and cigars. It really pissed me off. Why do some people think rules don't apply to them. No, I didn't run and tattle. What good would it have done? The offender would have to be caught in the act, right? While in San Juan found some wifi and posted on JHs page, for all the good that did.

[cruizinisthebest]

Yeah you're right. It wouldn't have done any good. But I think you stood a better chance trying to tell onboard than on John's FB page. No?

 

I wonder if people know the rule. I mean people who aren't on social media pages. Is it posted in balcony staterooms?

[winddawn]

Just off the Glory and found smokers on balconies several times. No one even seemed to care and didn't try to hide it. Included cigarettes and cigars. It really pissed me off. Why do some people think rules don't apply to them. No, I didn't run and tattle. What good would it have done? The offender would have to be caught in the act, right? While in San Juan found some wifi and posted on JHs page, for all the good that did.

Until Carnival starts enforcing its no smoking on balconies policy by charging the $250 penalty, people will continue to ignore it.

[dettlja]

We had a smoker next to us on our lido balcony on the breeze in march. I complained while the person was outside smoking and they got caught. The husband leaned over the divider and yelled at me for reporting him. I told him don't get mad at me that you broke the rules. Their room was 2 steps from the deck 11 smoking area.

[Fire LT]

I'm a smoker (yes...I am one of those evil people) and I would NEVER to think to smoke on my balcony now that they are non-smoking. When it was allowed I would make sure there was nobody within 10 balconies of me. In fact I would either smoke very early in the morning before people got up or late at night with no one else on their balconies near me. I agree, Carnival should enforce the rules. If they don't...then why have rules and regulations about smoking.

 

One of the reasons I chose Splendor for our upcoming cruise was that there seems to be ample areas on the ship to smoke. I will only be smoking where it is allowed. Having said that...I don't want to hear from a bunch of non smokers complaining about my smoke when I am doing it where is is allowed.

 

Alan

[jtwanabe]

Just curious .... if you pay the $250.00 fine can you smoke

your brains out on the balcony? :rolleyes:

Edited April 26, 2015 by jtwanabe

[Raxter54]

I will only be smoking where it is allowed. Having said that...I don't want to hear from a bunch of non smokers complaining about my smoke when I am doing it where is is allowed.

 

 

 

Alan

 

 

And it will be appreciated. I would not complain about someone following the rules...

[LSUcajunmom]

I agree w last post. I'm a smoker as well and enjoyed my first cup of coffee and cigarette on my balcony in the morning, but I usually did this around 7am so as not to bother anyone else. When it came time to book my cruise after the ban on smoking on balconies, I booked my first interior cabin. I used my balcony for smoking, if I couldn't do that anymore, why pay for the balcony. With that said, I smoke in the casino in the smoking areas and when I'm sitting at a machine and someone next to me starts waving their hand around and fanning off the smoke, I will respectfully move my cigarette to the hand further away from them, but that's it. Smokers are so limited to where we can smoke that I really don't care that my smoke is bothering you in the smoking area.

[Tapi]

Just curious .... if you pay the $250.00 fine can you smoke your brains out on the balcony? :rolleyes:

 

 

Yes, but only until you get caught again and Carnival throws you off the ship at the next port of call with no refund or arrangements to fly home. [emoji15]

[winddawn]

Just curious .... if you pay the $250.00 fine can you smoke

your brains out on the balcony? :rolleyes:

It's $250 for "any" violation, and since the passenger agrees to the cruise contract as a condition of boarding the vessel, violations of the cruise contract are subject to being disembarked from the ship.

 

I have to say though from my experience on Carnival ships and from reading this post that Carnival does not seem serious about enforcement of their smoking policy.

[Out to sea!]

Yeah you're right. It wouldn't have done any good. But I think you stood a better chance trying to tell onboard than on John's FB page. No?

 

I wonder if people know the rule. I mean people who aren't on social media pages. Is it posted in balcony staterooms?

 

Actually, no, it's not posted anywhere in the room or on the balcony. It is posted in the Funtimes but not everyone reads all of the fine print in those things.

[chrisdridley]

I'm on the Glory May 23rd and I'm not the kind of guy that will run and tell Carnival. I also won't be complaining about your smoke while I'm standing in the smoking area....all that's childish.

I am the kind of guy that will ask you nicely the first time to stop screwing up my trip when your smoke bothers me in a location it isn't supposed to be. The second time, I am not nice about it.

[kona_wahine]

The main reason I didn't run to GS is because I couldn't tell exactly what rooms the smokers were in. A couple times it was just the smell, I couldn't see the person.

The reason I posted HERE is to warn others. If I walked in the casino or by the smoking area I knew what to expect and would never complain.

[anythinggoes580]

Just off the Glory and found smokers on balconies several times. No one even seemed to care and didn't try to hide it. Included cigarettes and cigars. It really pissed me off. Why do some people think rules don't apply to them. No, I didn't run and tattle. What good would it have done? The offender would have to be caught in the act, right? While in San Juan found some wifi and posted on JHs page, for all the good that did.

 

 

I'm trying to figure out why you were so caught up in other people's actions that didn't even affect the room you were residing in that you had to waste precious time of the vacation you paid for to hunt down "Wifi" in San Juan to post about cigarette smoking on JHs page. If it was beside your room then a knock and polite gesture would have worked I'm sure. IMO there are a lot better things to do in San Juan than subject myself to a computer/wireless device to post something on the Internet about random smokers on balconies. Sorry just being honest. People smuggle liquor, "misplace Carnival towels", take pictures of pictures on the wall formal night and there's even a thread of slick tricks to know that Carnival doesn't tell you about cruising. People break rules all the time. Don't get caught up in wrong doings of other people that you end up wasting your own precious time trying to curve there wrong doing of others if it's not affecting you or for heavens sake wait till you're not in San Juan!

 

Cheers!