Grand - Princess Theater Smelled of Sewage???

[Colo Cruiser]

Okay...until I read these posts, I hadn't even thought about smoking policies on the Grand Princess.

 

What are the policies? I am a non-smoker and can't handle cigarette smoke, gives me horrible headaches. Is the smoke bad?

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Only in designated areas in certain lounges and supposed to be only one side of the Promanade deck outside probably where the ashtrays are but that does not stop most from lighting up wherever. The casino would probably be one of the worst places followed closely behind by Skywalkers.

[MTJSR]

A few weeks ago I submitted a thread on this very subject and 99 percent of the respondants said they have never smelled anything on the Grand. Interesting how in two weeks the Grand turned into a sewage smelling tub of....:D

[Colo Cruiser]

A few weeks ago I submitted a thread on this very subject and 99 percent of the respondants said they have never smelled anything on the Grand. Interesting how in two weeks the Grand turned into a sewage smelling tub of....:D

 

I remember that and like I keep saying this is like a small city and the smell has to vent somewhere. :)

[JimnKaren]

One might assume that if the ship is underway, then any odiferousness would just disappear with the wind when one is on one of the outside decks.

 

In the theaters, there is plenty of air movement due to the fans that circulate the heated and/or cooled air. I find it very hard to believe that a smell would be in one spot day after day, or evening after evening unless the source of that smell were to be immediately adjacent to the smellee. Did that make sense?

 

Jim

[Quenby]

I was on the infamous (the Incident) Feb 4th sailing of the Grand. The night we sat on the right side of the theatre, three of us noticed a STRONG odor of sewage. :eek: I walked about 3 miles a day on the promenade, but I never noticed the odor any other time.

[Princess Bride]

Oh, that's it. I figured it out.

 

Everyone could blame the sewage smell on the "Big List." Could that possibly be what people mean when they say, "You are on my SH*T LIST"???

 

I'm just kiddin'. :D :D Feeling silly today.

[mdamron]

We were on the Grand Rome to Galveston over this past Thanksgiving and noticed a fairly continual strong sewage smell outside our cabin (D233).

 

Another couple I met in the laundry who had a cabin two down from ours noticed the same smell.

 

A post in another thread attributed this to high sulphur diesel fuel, not sewage. This might depend on where the ship fuels up.

 

This smell was quite annoying, but due to the weather we did not spend that much time on the balcony, though it did keep us from opening the sliding door for fresh air as much as we would have wanted. Had the weather been calmer and warmer the smell would have really affected our enjoyment of the cruise.

[surfklutz]

A sewer smell on a vessel should not be normal....you just don't usually hear people talk about sewage smells as part of the cruise. Although most of you say that it was not all that bothersome, it needs to be fixed. As I said before, acceptance of the unacceptable just breeds more.

[stoneharborlady]

In the two years I have been reading posts on CC, I have read this complaint about almost every ship on Princess, and RCI, at one point in time. It seems to be something that comes and goes on almost every ship. Guess we have to live with it. Karen

[anne-1]

We were on the grand princess 2-11 through 2-18

The sewage smell was bad many times in differant areas, once out on the balcony aloha deck, others mentioned this as well ,

Yes the princess theater on the right side was so bad in the back area , you smeltedit as you entered , we wanted to leave it was bad , I finially went outside and waited for the show to end , This ended up being a good thing as the belly dancer instructor was out there as well and gave me a few personal lessons :) ;

We did not go back to that theater , The sewer smell was all week in differant areas of the ship , this I feel is a real big problem ,more than just venting , there is a BIG problem that needs to be fixed , Nobody wants to breath in those fumes:eek: as hard as it was to find a rest room on the ship when you finially did it was not good to enter when the fumes were so bad , and may I say theres were fumes coming out of the vent holes on the floor ,people were covering there faces in order to use the facilities,

I have not noticed this on any other cruise I have been on , or heard my friends mention this problem on ships they were on ,

We will not cruise Grand princess again ,

[ehogan]

I have a big problem with second hand smoke as well. We were on the Jan 21 cruise and the only place I was bothered by smoke was the casino, where it is difficult at times to get away from the smokers.

[purplefan]

I was on the Grand last fall Rome to Venice and never noticed any sewage smells. Also, I am very sensitive to cigarette smoke and expected to be exposed to much more, being in Europe. There really was very few places on the ship where people could smoke, and I didn't smell it often. Even the casino seemed to be better ventilated than most casinos on land I've been in.

 

I hope it's not bad now- if so they need to correct this! Why go to the theatre if it smells like sewage?

[sultan_sfo]

On Dawn Princess, we were on the last Caribbean cruise in October 2004 before it went into drydock. The smell in the Theatre was well known because of seepage under the carpet. I could not enter the Theatre because of the smell but had to go in once because the Customs Clearance was held there! But the smell did not affect many of the other pax. But hey! The price was right so it did not interfere with my enjoyment. /Sultan

[anne-1]

From past reports on Saturday the 4th of feb, the ship did a sudden turn and nearly tipped , we talked to a couple who were still on the ship the next week when we were there , they said it was an aweful thing and very scarry , I'm thinking this may have caused the sewer smell , They were pulling up carpet in the wee hours of the morning , I saw this as i wanted a wee morning snack one day , and saw them put new carpet in the buffet area ,

I guess no matter what your trip cost , you should not have to go through sitting in a theater and smelling that , The theater should have been closed , they had no problem changing ports , they should be able to close a theater with a bad sewer smell , the back area were it was the worst for the most part ,or walking around and all of a sudden breathing that in , at times it was very strong , you had to hold your breath or hold something over your face to not inhale , at one time we were not able to sit out on the balcony because once the smell was bad there also , others smelt it as well ,,

the only place i ever came across cigerate smoke was in the skywalker dance area , but i think it was ventelated pretty good for smoke anyhow , but you still could smell it ,

[anne-1]

sorry

[Liza555]

I will be on the Grand March 18th. Maybe I should bring a can of Oust or Lysol air deodorizer just in case:)

[anne-1]

:) ;) Maybe ,

[livewire38]

We were on the 1/28/06 sailing of the Grand. We were in the "standing room only" section at the back of the theatre for all shows and noticed the sewage smell all week. Did not notice the odor anywhere else on the ship.