Cruise Line Smoking Policies
Want to know which cruise lines have the most flexible or most restrictive smoking policies. We’ve highlighted the most important aspects of the major cruise line smoking policies.
This page last updated: April 15, 2010
Cruise Line Smoking Policies
| Cruise Line | In Room | Balcony | Public Areas |
|---|---|---|---|
| Azamara | No | No | Smoking is permitted at port side aft section of the Looking Glass Lounge and the starboard forward section of the pool deck. |
| Carnival | Yes, in Standard Rooms, No Smoking in Spa Cabins on Splendor classes of ship | Yes on standard balconies. No on Spa Cabins | Smoking is permitted in casinos, dance clubs, piano bars and other live music venues, as well as designated areas on open decks. All dining areas are non-smoking, as are a number of public rooms, including the aft cabaret lounge, main show lounge, library, and along the promenade. Ships in Carnival's Destiny and Conquest classes have cigar bars. |
| Celebrity | No | No | Designated indoor areas where passengers can smoke cigarettes include the port side of one lounge per ship and a designated slot machine area in each ship's casino. Other outdoor areas include the port side of the pool deck and sundecks on each ship, the port side of the Sunset Bar on Celebrity Century and on Celebrity's Millennium class of ships, and the port side aft outside of Winter Garden on Celebrity Galaxy and Celebrity Mercury. Cigar and pipe smoking is allowed only in specially designated sections of the open decks. |
| Costa | Yes | Yes | Designated smoking areas in most public rooms. All restaurants,show lounges, corridors and hallways are non-smoking. |
| Crystal | Yes | No | Smoking is permitted in cabins, on open decks, and in designated smoking areas in most bars and lounges. |
| Cunard | Yes | Yes | Cunard ships are non smoking in public rooms except for Churchills Cigar Lounge and designated areas on open deck. Guests who enjoy pipes or cigars are accommodated in Churchill’s Cigar lounge on board each ship and smoking is permitted in all staterooms and private balconies. |
| Disney | No | Yes | Smoking is prohibited indoors on Disney, and only permitted on Starboard side decks |
| Fred Olsen | No | Yes | Smoking will be banned in all indoor areas, and permitted only on cabin balconies, and on specially designated areas of deck space. Effective by May 29th 2009 on all ships. |
| Holland America | Yes | Yes | Most public areas with the have become completely non-smoking. For the past few years HAL has been "tweaking" their policy so it varies slightly from ship to ship. Here are their listed designated smoking areas: Casino, Northern Lights Disco (ms Eurodam, ms Oosterdam, ms Nieuw Amsterdam, ms Westerdam & ms Zuiderdam only), Outside Decks, Seaview Bar (except ms Maasdam, ms Ryndam, ms Statendam & ms Veendam), Sports Bar, Crow's Nest (except ms Eurodam, ms Oosterdam, ms Nieuw Amsterdam, ms Westerdam & ms Zuiderdam), "Our ships do not have "nonsmoking" staterooms; however, all rooms are thoroughly cleaned after each cruise to assure the comfort of our guests. All showrooms are nonsmoking during performances. Cigar and pipesmoking is permitted on the outside decks only." |
| MSC | No | No | On all MSC vessels, smoking is only allowed indoors in the Cigar Rooms, the Casinos and in one dedicated lounge. Passengers can also smoke outside, on one side of the sun deck. The rest of the ships is therefore totally smoke-free, for the benefit of non-smokers. Thanks to the Clean Air Policy, MSC Cruises has said that they are able to satisfy both smokers and non-smokers by having a 90% smoke-free ship." |
| NCL | Yes | Yes | The only public indoor spaces where smoking is permitted are the Cigar Bar and the Casino. Smoking is permitted on open decks. |
| Oceania | No | No | Smoking is only permitted in two outdoor designated smoking areas. A severe no tolerance policy is in place that can include disembarkation of policy violators. |
| P & O | No | Yes | P&O Started a new smoking policy with their three newest ships, and by the May of 2010 they will implement the no indoor smoking policy through out their fleet. Smoking will no longer be permitted inside any areas of the ship including passenger staterooms. Smoking will still, however, be allowed on stateroom balconies and on certain areas of the open deck. |
| Princess | Yes | Yes | Smoking is not allowed in the dining rooms, any food service area, or in the show lounges and theaters. Smoking is permitted in staterooms, stateroom balconies, and designated areas. As a courtesy to your fellow passengers, please refrain from smoking pipes and cigars in all public rooms. |
| Pullmantar | Yes | Yes | Pullmantar allows smoking in all public rooms including the dining room and designates a small section non-smoking. |
| Regent | No | No | Cigarette smoking is not permitted in any enclosed dining areas, whether it be the ships' main dining rooms or the alternate dining venues. Cigarette smoking is only permitted in designated areas of the outdoor Pool Grills. Other than open deck areas, the following are the only public rooms or areas where cigarette smoking is now permitted: Seven Seas Voyager: Connoisseur Club, Casino, Voyager Lounge (designated area), Horizon Lounge (outside area only), Pool Bar Seven Seas Mariner: Connoisseur Club, Casino, Horizon Lounge (outside area only), Stars Nightclub (designated area), Pool Bar Seven Seas Navigator: Connoisseur Club, Casino, Stars Lounge (designated area), Galileo's (outside area only), Pool Bar |
| Royal Caribbean | No | Yes, on exterior ocean view balconies, but not on the Interior Boardwalk/Central Park balconies on Oasis Class ships. | Smoking is permitted only in designated areas and outdoors on the Starboard side of the ship. Pipe & cigar smoking is only permitted within the Cigar lounge. If no Cigar lounge exists on the ship, there will be a designated area for pipe & cigar smoking, you will find out the location once on board. |
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I was looking on your smoking policy chart and saw one mistake I know of. That would be the Royal Caribbean. You cannot smoke in the interior rooms. A room with a balcony is ok but only on the balcony.
Thank you Wendy. I have confirmed via the Royal Caribbean site the information you gave me, and it looks like I made the error when I updated the table when I added the Oasis Class information. Oasis will have interior facing balconies and I updated that you can’t smoke on those, but forgot to change the fact that you cannot smoke inside in any staterooms. Thank you so much, again, for the heads up on the policy. I really appreciate it.
Have just returned from a cruise on the Celebrity Century which was non smoking apart from a few designated areas. It was excellent – even the non smokers agreed with the policy of not allowing smoking on balconies. Have just booked a cruise with RCL and am disappointed to find that smoking IS allowed on their ship on the balconies. I was so looking forward to lounging around in privacy, on my own balcony, enjoying the freshair – now all I can think about it having a heavy smoker or two in the balcony beside us and stinking of other peoples smoke when I visit the Casino. By the way I suffer from asthma, so understandably do not want to inhale smoke. I now wish that I had not acted so impulsively and had booked Celebrity again, instead. sorry RCL!
I booked on celebrity without checking their smoking policy. I never in a million years would have thought you could not smoke on the balcony. I am simply stunned. If a non-smoker was next to me, and simply asked nicely, I would certainly make sure that I never smoked while they were out there. But give me a break….I can’t ever smoke on the balcony? Looks like my cruisefare just went up $250.
Jared, we were just talking about that with a Celebrity crew member, and they explained that after the Star Princess fire, Celebrity wanted to improve saftey on their ships. Since they believe that the Star Princess fire may have been started by a cigarette on a balcony, they did not want to risk the same type of accident on a Celebrity ship. They don’t let passengers use clothing irons or candles for the same reason. They do allow smoking in the Sky Lounge, all the way forward on one upper decks, and outdoors on the back of the ship and one size of the pool deck, so you might want to look at booking a room close by one of these locations and pack something that you can easily throw on so you can go to one of those locations.
I’m hoping that Mr. Fain takes the hint I gave him on my website. I love being on my balcony having breakfast in the morning. However the stench of cigarette smoke from next door does not go well with the taste of my food. Thus, I have to eat in my room. Same deal when I work on my laptop on the balcony… have to pack it up and come inside. They say there is no way to police smokers on non-smoking balconies. The party next door to me would leave a glass of water on the balcony table and put out their cig after smoking–then dump it in the toilet and flush. I’m sure if one would complain (1) no one would go and check, and (2) the smoker would deny it as there is no proof.
So here is my suggestion. Book all smokers who want balconies on one side (or the other) of the ship and group them all together. Let them pollute each other… Then let the non-smokers know which balcony side is smoke free!!
We booked a forward family cabin on the last cruise, and the nice part was that we didn’t have to worry at all about balcony smoke, though I am not sure there were any rule breakers on that cruise.
so we have banned smoking, now the fatties will come, because fat people are twice as much sick as smokers (!!) and people who drink above average a stunning 4 times more illnesses,and you allmighty non-smoker are paying for this too, so now what ban those also?
Point is, get your balance, stop complaining and this seems the biggest issue with many, you are always just complaining about everything: Steward one mornign “too late” with good morning Madam or Sir, complaint filed, drink with one ice cube too much; complained filed. Shower water 3 seconds off presure: complained filled….pffffff I wish you simply could have the balance in your lifes
Cor,
You are still able to smoke on most cruise ships, just not in areas where it would most likely interfere with others’ enjoyment of their cruise. It is about finding balance. Most ships designate some areas where smoking is allowed. These areas are generally easily avoidable by those who do not wish to be around cigarette smoke. For those who wish to smoke they need only enjoy their cigarettes is the designated areas of the ships. Many ships have both indoor and outdoor designated smoking areas.
I’m glad I came across this website before I booked our trip on Celebrity, because like Jared I was stunned to find out that they didn’t even allow smoking on room balconies. I am a fervent non-smoker, but there is no way that my smoker wife is going to leave our balcony/stateroom just so that she can have a cigarette with her morning coffee. Frankly, while I don’t like smoke myself, I find it hard to believe that, outside on a balcony on a moving ship with all that wind, smoke from an adjoining balcony could really bother anybody. I really think it’s a reflection of the increasing intolerance we have in this country these days.
Having said that (again, as a non-smoker), Carolsbeenthere has a good question about why cruise ships don’t have a section of balcony cabins aggregated together (preferably aft where smoke wouldn’t waft forward to annoy the more intolerant non-smokers like Carolsbeenthere).
However, it’s oddly coincidental that we and joan mccartney will be doing exactly the opposite – we’ll not book Celebrity and will book Royal Caribbean and she will do vice versa, each for the same (but opposite reasons); smoking policies. I guess in the large picture it all works out for the cruise lines anyway, depending upon which group of potential passengers they think they can best fill their ships with.
Thanks Neil,
I’m glad you found the information which you needed to help you make your booking decision. You may be on to something there with the two sister cruise lines offering differing smoking policies in order to appeal to different markets. Royal Caribbean also own Pulmantar, a Spanish Market cruise line, which has the most lenient of smoking policies. They even have a smoking section in the Dining Room.
How would Celebrity or other lines ever be able to enforce the no smoking on balcony policy? Seems that unless someone sat out there chain smoking or left butts there’d be no way of verifying which balcony any smoke odors came from. I understand why they want to do it, but it just seems a bit pointless to have a policy that can’t be fulfilled / enforced.
Cunards new smoking policy.
The massive QM2 now has only one indoor area with 10 seats for smokers.
We no longer travel on Cunard ships, we’ve changed to Princess, at least they have a few indoor areas for smokers to mix.
Your Cunard listing is outdated, on QM2 there is only Churchills lounge for smokers (12 seats).
Like many other passengers we have changed cruiselines too.
Formally diamond Cunard cruisers, we spend our money elsewhere now, we’ll not travel on any ship that doesn’t have at least one indoor pub/bar (and I don’t count a room no larger than my kitchen as a bar) where smokers can sit.
Ian
Wow, it doesn’t seem that the Churchills lounge is nearly large enough to accommodate the smokers on a ship that large. Is that the only indoor smoking area? If so what are the out door smoking areas like? Are they sheltered from the wind at all, or are you pretty much subject to the weather?
Hi
Yup, that’s right, 12 seats, outdoor smoking one area only, no idea who would want to use that though, middle of the North Atlantic going out for a cig? not me.
Looks like the anti-smokers have got their way, we now use different cruiselines.
I do not eat animals or drink alcohol. I tolerate these habits in others, because I believe in freedom to choose. Almost every kitchen has the blood and smell and hair of a slaughtered animal….right next to the food I will be receiving, contaminating my environment, my food. Every time I leave the house my life is in danger from an alcohol drinker. Cooked processed food is killing everyone, not smoke. Some complain about everything. Some are always sick, because they LOVE TO BE SICK! And..YES… carnivores stink….and yes…people who drink stink. Anyone who promotes the “cigarettes kill” agenda
is making money from it in some way, or wants the land…or is a HATER and needs to GET A LIFE!!!! I want all UNIFORMS done away with…forever. OK gotta go have a puff. Happy Day!!!!
Ohplease,
Sounds like you may favor smoker tolerance, but you obviously have so many psychological issues it’s hard to tell.
I don’t even know what to say, except that I am glad that Ohplease tolerates my “meat” eating. As cigarette smoking has declined in popularity so too have the places to smoke in an effort to please the majority of people. I supposed when strict vegan dieters become the majority of the population we’ll start to see more and more meat free kitchens. Perhaps they already exist in countries where for religious reasons there are already a large population of vegans.
Does anyone know if one can still smoke in the Wheelhouse Bar on Sapphire Princess? Princess staff when phoned seem unsure.
Thanks!
Dawn, I did some research and it looks like smoking is not permitted in any of the bars on Sapphire Princess.
Here’s the obvious. A smoker takes away a non smokers right not to smoke.
When someone overeats or is fat, they only hurt themselves.
When a drinker is an alcoholic, they endanger the lives of others if they are abusive or driving. BUT, as I said, when someone smokes, a non smoker has to inhale those fumes. That is the only problem. They say smoking causes cancer and if one wants to induce cancer in their own body, knock yourself out. Just as a fat person can die from complications of being fat. The difference is a fat person only kills themselves and a smoker can kill those around them. Period. That is just a fact. if you don’t see that, you obviously are one of those people that smoke and don’t give a damn if someone is eating right next to you. But that’s another issue – one that people have to deal with every day. Remember, people don’t get nastier as they get older, they were nasty all along…
Thank you for your comments Gina, did you participate in our poll about the smoke areas? If so which smoking option did you choose.
Every heat producing macine puts out pollution….you should run from BOATS CARS PLANES HEATERS OVENS ETC LIVE IN MONGOLIA AND GIVE UP ALL THOSE THINGS or continue to live a hypocritical holier than thou controlling others life miserable people!!!!! JUST A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THEY OUTLAW EVERY FREEDOM TO CHOOSE
Well, there’s sailboats and solar ovens, and in Mongolia you need to burn Yak dung for cooking, so . . .
Hi Cruise Arizona – I didn’t see the poll but would love to participate.
And, Oh Please and Neil – Nobody is interested in controlling your lives. There is pollution everywhere and there are sailboats and solar ovens and I can choose to stay far removed from them if I like. I can choose to stay away from the tap water if I believe there are cancer causing agents, I don’t have to inhale fumes on a ship if I choose to sail, I can sail on a high deck and forward. I can choose to live in a smoke free home, and a smoke free car and eat in a smoke free restaurant. Second hand smoke causes cancer. Cigarette smoke causes cancer. They used to say “may cause” but now it says “does cause”. Most people that smoke, don’t smoke in their own home, why, because it stinks and stinks up the home and same for their car. People that smoke get pissed when a non smoker asks them to please not smoke. I suppose most people that smoke are arrogant and that’s why they ignore the warnings and continue to smoke. Smokers are the first to cry when they find they have lung cancer or have killed a non smoking family member that lives in the household from second hand smoke. Smokers are the first to sue when they get lung cancer from the very cigarette they made others inhale through second hand smoke. The comments from Oh Please and Neil only confirm the arrogance of a smoker. My comments stated that a smoker takes away a non smokers right not to smoke. That’s all I said and look at the ridiculous comments that only a smoker would make. Get the picture you two – I can only imagine what you both look like, the typical dirty looking individual that walks up to any counter and smells like an ash tray. Just walk up and ask a stranger if you smell (stink) from smoke and let that answer be your guide – When they say yes, imagine how bad your breath smells and then wonder why you are so miserable in your lives. And if your children have allergies or asthma, it’s not a coincidence, you did it to them so stand up and take a bow. No, better yet, blame them – not yourselves
By the way – take a look at the Princess line – the smoking on balcony rule was banned because a smoker flicked his ashes and started a fire that killed one – injured many, and burned completely, 170 cabins. Now I suppose to a smoker, that’s just A OK. My own mother once threw her cigarette on the ground and 1/2 later there was a blaze outside of her friends apartment complex in New York. Her remark, “it wasn’t me”. Yeah, right! You just flicked your disgusting cigarette to the ground, walked inside and then the fire trucks came to that exact location but it wasn’t you – really now, that’s pathetic
This is directed to the aptly-named Ms. Savage, who for some reason assumes I’m a smoker and has personally attacked me because she somehow thinks I’ve criticized her in one of my previous three earlier posts on this thread (which I have not – those were only responding to Joan Mccartney, Carolsbeenthere & Ohplease, respectively). If you’d bothered to read what I’ve said instead of jumping to baseless conclusions, you’ll find that I’m NOT a smoker – in fact, as I alluded to earlier, I’m a fervent ex-smoker, going on 33 years.
With that said, and if we can get away from your pejorative descriptions of people you obviously know nothing about, lets look at the real problem – tolerance (or rather, the lack thereof) in current America. I don’t smoke, I don’t like smoking, but there are friends of mind who do smoke (& yes, despite what you state, they do smoke in their homes). When we’re in my house, they don’t smoke; when I’m in their houses then sometimes they do. Secondhand smoke is a risk depending upon the circumstances – driving in a car with a smoker with the windows closed for an extended period is obviously a risk, but no serious researcher would ever say that non-smokers on a moving ship’s balcony are at measurable risk from an adjoining balcony’s occasional smoker. In between those situations, the risk obviously varies depending upon fresh air circulation, smoke control & removal devices, etc.
So what it really comes down to is tolerance of other people’s habits, be it meat eaters or alcohol drinkers (Ohplease’s hangups) or smokers (your hangup) or people who incessantly complain about others’ habits (my hangup). It’s really a sad commentary that we as a country have become so polarized that we’re unable to tolerate the least little habit in someone else that displeases us.