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[quote sfrombl]If Carnival prohitbits smoking on balconies, then I am done with cruising. We don't smoke in our home or car, but do outside. That is why we spend the extra $$$ for a balcony.If Carnival or Princess chooses to go "non-smoking balconies", I will be spending my vacation dollars in Las Vegas. No ocean or balcony, but I can get a smoking room. I live where I can be at the ocean in 15 minutes. With disposable dollars (vacation money)shrinking, or not existing at all, I think it is a really bad move for cruise lines to eliminate smoking on their expensive cabins. Look what happend to Carnival Paradise when it was totally non-smoking.I currently have 2 cruises booked, which I can cancel at anytime before final payment. This represents a couple of G's that I could use for something else. If the cruise lines keep it up with their rules, me and my dollars are gone. Good luck with filling all those huge ships they are building.
[quote sfrombl]If Carnival prohitbits smoking on balconies, then I am done with cruising. We don't smoke in our home or car, but do outside. That is why we spend the extra $$$ for a balcony.
If Carnival or Princess chooses to go "non-smoking balconies", I will be spending my vacation dollars in Las Vegas. No ocean or balcony, but I can get a smoking room. I live where I can be at the ocean in 15 minutes. With disposable dollars (vacation money)shrinking, or not existing at all, I think it is a really bad move for cruise lines to eliminate smoking on their expensive cabins. Look what happend to Carnival Paradise when it was totally non-smoking.
I currently have 2 cruises booked, which I can cancel at anytime before final payment. This represents a couple of G's that I could use for something else. If the cruise lines keep it up with their rules, me and my dollars are gone. Good luck with filling all those huge ships they are building.
I do not ever forsee Carnival stopping the smoking on balconies. I do see them joining RCCL and stopping smoking in the cabin itself.
But (just like on RCCL) I see smoking on the balconies to continue.
As for the other poster's question of how do you keep it from going under the doors and out into the hallway...you can't. That is why Carnival will eventually stop smoking in the cabins. But again, the balconies should be good to go.
If someone wants no smoking on balconies, they should try Oceania. They have the most restrictive smoking regs around.
Just an update on the Paradise.....one of the biggest reasons it did not make enough money (please note it never lost money) was that it did not get the groups a cruise line needs. Groups are a cruise line bread and butter and even in the smallest family groups, you are going to have one smoker. So the Paradise was harder to book.
If Carnival had had the foresight that Oceania had....and just had severe restricted (two smoking areas) but not completely nonsmoking...it would still be sailing today!!
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