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As I mentioned in my earlier post we were on the Golden Princess on a Med cruise in July. Although there were a lot of Europeans especially from Great Britain on the cruise, we were never bothered by second hand smoke (neither of us smoke so we would prefer to avoid others leftovers). There was no smoking in the dining room, buffet area and show lounges and actually very few people smoked anywhere inside the ship. The smokers seem to congregate around the bars on the top decks. There the smoke could get bad at times. But generally given all the bad things we had heard about smoking in Europe, we didn't notice it as a problem even while we were ashore on tours or while we stayed a couple of days extra in Venice.Now we were on a Xmas cruise on the old HAL Westerdam in 1997 and about half the passengers were from Europe (many were German) and they smoked everywhere and anywhere. They had the dining room supposingly divided into smoking and non smoking and we asked to be moved further from the smoking area because of the amount of smoke from the tables near our original table.Luckily I think almost all cruise lines have banned smoking in the dining rooms at the very minimum. I think in the future you will see smoking banned everywhere on the interior of most ships and restricted to exterior areas.Oh well enough preaching for now.Happy cruising.
As I mentioned in my earlier post we were on the Golden Princess on a Med cruise in July. Although there were a lot of Europeans especially from Great Britain on the cruise, we were never bothered by second hand smoke (neither of us smoke so we would prefer to avoid others leftovers). There was no smoking in the dining room, buffet area and show lounges and actually very few people smoked anywhere inside the ship. The smokers seem to congregate around the bars on the top decks. There the smoke could get bad at times. But generally given all the bad things we had heard about smoking in Europe, we didn't notice it as a problem even while we were ashore on tours or while we stayed a couple of days extra in Venice.
Now we were on a Xmas cruise on the old HAL Westerdam in 1997 and about half the passengers were from Europe (many were German) and they smoked everywhere and anywhere. They had the dining room supposingly divided into smoking and non smoking and we asked to be moved further from the smoking area because of the amount of smoke from the tables near our original table.
Luckily I think almost all cruise lines have banned smoking in the dining rooms at the very minimum. I think in the future you will see smoking banned everywhere on the interior of most ships and restricted to exterior areas.
Oh well enough preaching for now.
Happy cruising.
