Smoking question

[cruisers5]

We are booked on MSC Fantasia, out of Barcelona, for March of next year.  I’ve looked at some reviews of the ship on various websites and You Tube and people have said that smoking is all over the place, on balconies, in rooms, in bars, not just in the designated smoking areas, and Guest Relations doesn’t do a thing about it.  Can anyone confirm this?  My daughter is highly allergic to smoke, and it doesn’t sit well with me either, so I don’t want to book this cruise and then suffer for the week.

[mscdivina2016]

56 minutes ago, cruisers5 said:

We are booked on MSC Fantasia, out of Barcelona, for March of next year.  I’ve looked at some reviews of the ship on various websites and You Tube and people have said that smoking is all over the place, on balconies, in rooms, in bars, not just in the designated smoking areas, and Guest Relations doesn’t do a thing about it.  Can anyone confirm this?  My daughter is highly allergic to smoke, and it doesn’t sit well with me either, so I don’t want to book this cruise and then suffer for the week.

Yes, sort of.

 Was on Splendida last year and it was happening on balconies and out on the decks. It was not in bars. I cannot confirm it was in rooms themselves. No one was enforcing it to my knowledge. I know some people had video and still nothing was done.

 Now in the USA it's a different story. Very rare to see it.

 Years ago on Orchestra in Northern Europe, they were very strict. 

[markwfpb]

3 hours ago, cruisers5 said:

We are booked on MSC Fantasia, out of Barcelona, for March of next year.  I’ve looked at some reviews of the ship on various websites and You Tube and people have said that smoking is all over the place, on balconies, in rooms, in bars, not just in the designated smoking areas, and Guest Relations doesn’t do a thing about it.

 

We are on the same cruise (or the one right after), boarding in Naples. I've seen the same commentary about "no smoking" treated more as a suggestion than a mandate on the Fantasia.

Since we have the good fortune of only being highly annoyed by smoke and not actually allergic, we're going to report once, okay maybe twice, and try our best to ignore it. 

 

[CruisingFox27]

We're currently on Grandiosa in the Mediterranean, I've seen very few people smoking. 

[RudiRatlos]

Fantasia class has one design flaw regarding smoke: as long as a part of the casino is a smoking area, smoke from there tends to go upstairs to the piano bar.

Apart from that we never experienced any smoke outside the designated smoking areas on Fantasia, Preziosa or Splendida, neither in the nordics nor in the mediterranean.

[ebeluga]

That would be a deal breaker for me. So does it come down to individual ship management or cultural demographics? Booked on a TA from Miami to Barcelona on Seaside...

 

Welcome any insight!

[Ryan82]

People will smoke in casinos, and thr outdoor areas where its allowed. Europeans smoke much more so people will undoubtedly smoke and vape on balconies. Its extremely unlike that people will smoke in bars.

[ebeluga]

I deduced then it is the ship management. I have sailed with other mass market lines in Europe and the "no smoking" on balconies was observed and strictly enforced. This is a severe fire hazard. I cannot imagine the chaos to evacuate on a 4000+ pax boats in the event of a fire.

[TheBeardedCruiser]

6 hours ago, ebeluga said:

I deduced then it is the ship management. I have sailed with other mass market lines in Europe and the "no smoking" on balconies was observed and strictly enforced. This is a severe fire hazard. I cannot imagine the chaos to evacuate on a 4000+ pax boats in the event of a fire.

I agree! It is a fire hazard! (Star Princess - 2006)

[CruisingFox27]

On 6/27/2024 at 9:23 AM, Ryan82 said:

People will smoke in casinos, and thr outdoor areas where its allowed. Europeans smoke much more so people will undoubtedly smoke and vape on balconies. Its extremely unlike that people will smoke in bars.

Our cruise last week went to Spain, Italy and France. We're still on our post cruise stay in France, I have been very surprised by how few people are smoking. It's markedly different from a few years ago. Sitting outside restaurant and bars, it used 5th be the majority smoked. The number of people smoking are certainly in the minority now.