Aft balconies and exhaust smoke?

[swanhaven]

I've read that some ships depending on weather may have issues with exhaust smoke making the aft balcony experience not ideal - depending on deck.

Does anyone have any thoughts on which deck levels may be less susceptible than others?

I'm most interested in the breakaway plus class.

Thanks ahead

[FLAHAM]

Not an issue, in my experience.  

[tallnthensome]

Smoke or soot? There are some issues with soot on some ships . 

[Smong]

almost always stay aft  never had a problem

[swanhaven]

Thanks all, and yes I did mean soot after all.

Sounds as though there are no super concerning issues so....yay!

[chengkp75]

The soot happens at certain times at night due to cleaning the engine turbochargers and boilers.  From my time at NCL, we always informed the bridge as to when this was going to be done, and they would adjust course to put the wind on the beam so the soot had less distance to blow to get away from the ship (over the side instead of aft), and then return to course (about 15-20 minutes).  From what I hear about other lines, this is not done, causing the sooting problems.

[Georgia_Peaches]

Stayed in aft suite on deck 9 Breakaway.  No soot or smoke at all.

[QuickieGlenn]

been on the Getaway, Escape and Bliss Aft  rooms and they all had a degree of soot

The escape was the worst on Deck 13

 

The room attendant wiped it down every day

[putchky]

stayed in aft suites a few times the only fumes we got were the bakery making bread.

 

[swanhaven]

2 hours ago, chengkp75 said:

The soot happens at certain times at night due to cleaning the engine turbochargers and boilers.  From my time at NCL, we always informed the bridge as to when this was going to be done, and they would adjust course to put the wind on the beam so the soot had less distance to blow to get away from the ship (over the side instead of aft), and then return to course (about 15-20 minutes).  From what I hear about other lines, this is not done, causing the sooting problems.

Thank you very much for your information! Great to have 🙂

[swanhaven]

8 minutes ago, putchky said:

stayed in aft suites a few times the only fumes we got were the bakery making bread.

 

That's a rough one hey! 😉 Let the drooling begin!

[bam1957]

Stayed in the AFT on the 15th floor on the Bliss last December and had a little soot but not enough to be an issue.

[waterjock]

Stayed In a aft balcony on Escape deck 12 had no problems.

[esm54687]

6 hours ago, chengkp75 said:

The soot happens at certain times at night due to cleaning the engine turbochargers and boilers.  From my time at NCL, we always informed the bridge as to when this was going to be done, and they would adjust course to put the wind on the beam so the soot had less distance to blow to get away from the ship (over the side instead of aft), and then return to course (about 15-20 minutes).  From what I hear about other lines, this is not done, causing the sooting problems.

Great info once again..... 

 

I've stayed in aft balconies on many of NCL ships and never had an issue and it's great to know why.

[bonvoyagie]

Have been Aft twice (sky and pearl) only issues on the sky were the aromas from the great outdoors when they did a BBQ. No issues with soot. Going to be on the aft again in Jan on the Gem. We just love the view.

[4774Papa]

14 hours ago, FLAHAM said:

Not an issue, in my experience.  

We had an Aft Balcony on the Sun on our 2016  Alaska cruise and soot was not a problem.  An Aft is great for Alaska, especially going through Glacier Bay and Hubbard Glacier.   The Aft Balcony you are not getting the cold breeze that you get on a port or starboard balcony.  Also, the views from the Aft are wonderful.