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: Oct 6, 2009
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 and show lounges 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 has designated smoking sections of most bars and lounges. In addition, all restaurants aboard Queen Elizabeth 2 except the Princess Grill feature small smoking sections. |
| 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 exception of the dining room and theater have a designated smoking area, however recently some of the public spaces have become completely non-smoking. For the past few years HAL has been "tweaking" their policy so it varies slightly from ship to ship until they find a policy that will work fleet wide. |
| Majestic American Line | No | Yes | No smoking indoors at all, and out door smoking on designated areas including balconies. |
| 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 | On Ventura, Oceana and Artemis smoking is only permitted on open decks and balconies. On Oriana, Aurora and Arcadia smoking is permitted on open decks, balconies, and one designated indoor area. |
| Princess | Yes | Yes | Smoking is not allowed in the dining rooms, or any other 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 | Indoors smoking is permitted in the Connoisseur Club on Seven Seas Mariner, Navigator and Voyager, cansinos and in designated smoking areas in lounges on each ship. Outdoors the line permits smoking at pool bars and open decks. |
| 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 onboard. |
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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.