Originally Posted By CTXRover Starting June 1st, all WDW resort hotels, including Vacation Club locations, will become smoke free with designated outdoor smoking areas only. Effecting 20 properties, this is the largest single site location to enact such a smoking policy. Smoking will no longer be allowed in any guest room, including the patio/balcony, as well as any indoor public areas, such as lobbies. Smoking will only be allowed in designated areas outdoors at the resorts. This follows a similar decision to make the 3 DL hotels smoke-free last year. Source: <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/custom/tourism/orl-biznews-disney050107" target="_blank">http://www.orlandosentinel.com /business/custom/tourism/orl-biznews-disney050107</a>,0,1051211.story?coll=orl-home-headlines
Originally Posted By dixielandings well as a smoker it only makes since I don't smoke in my own house! and since were on the subject they should move the smoking area in Tomorrow land thats at the exit to the Grand Prix Raceway not cool for kids to have to walk through a cloud of smoke to exit an attraction
Originally Posted By wahooskipper Wow, that is a significant move. It wasn't that long ago (mid-90s) that I worked at a resort that finally instituted no smoking rooms.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: It will be interesting to see how this is enforced. My sisters and I are always seeing guests in violation of the current no smoking rules at the Magic Kingdom. It's as if some guests don't realize there are designated areas for smoking--or they don't care--so they end up blowing their filthy cigars and cigarette smoke anywhere they want. ORWEN: Yes--but don't don't forget about a certain nasty old biddy who's also guilty of blowing smoke--from her cauldron. She sets it up wherever she pleases and the stench from it is worse than ANY cigar or cigerette!
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb >>>It will be interesting to see how this is enforced<<< EXACTLY! I love the idea, but really are they going to kick out a paying customer when the maids smell old ciggie smoke? Doubtful.
Originally Posted By markymouse I know how they enforce it. The hotel we recently stayed at prominently posted a $250 cleaning fee if you smoke in your room. You've given your credit card number, somewhere on the registration you've signed that you agreed to those terms, now light up for one very expensive smoke!
Originally Posted By CTXRover Completely nonsmoking hotels and hotel chains are increasing in number. Basically, if you are suspected of smoking in your room, be ready to pay a hefty fine for 'cleaning' as markymouse stated above. The downside is that I imagine this depends on the housekeeping service to inform the appropriate person that they suspect someone has smoked in a certain guest room. Their jobs are full enough trying to just keep the floors and bathrooms clean between guests, so I don't know how efficiently that will work. However, I imagine most smokers will find that it is worthwhile not to risk being fined. I don't know if that will be Disney's policy, but I'm sure if it is, the fine will be anything but reasonable, as it should be. How does DL's resort hotels enforce the no-smoking policy?
Originally Posted By ToonKirby The only thing really surprising about this is that it has taken them this long to do it. And a friend of mine does a lot of traveling with his job, and he says he's seen notices of fines up to $500. But how are they going to prevent it on balconies? I think that is going a bit far, in my opinion, but I do know they prevent smoking on the balcony at DAK Lodge due to the animals or something.
Originally Posted By Mr X >>>The hotel we recently stayed at prominently posted a $250 cleaning fee if you smoke in your room. You've given your credit card number, somewhere on the registration you've signed that you agreed to those terms, now light up for one very expensive smoke!<<< I think it's just a threat. They can't prove it. If they try to impose a fine, all one would have to say is "it smelled like that when we arrived".
Originally Posted By sun-n-fun We were just going to call and add that we wanted 2 non smoking rooms at CB in Aug. Glad we don't have to now.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I had no idea this was not already in place. Being a non-smoker I thought that the Hotels were already smoke free.
Originally Posted By NYthrillseeker I think it's a very good move, although I doubt it will change anything as far as the parks go. My wife is a smoker (as much as I can't stand it), and she hardly has the patience of waiting to find the designated spots in the parks to light up. It's not like the park is litered with butts, but in every nook and cranny you see the smokers lighting up, that'll never change, unfortunately.
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey I think this is a great idea. My brother-in-law was forced to go on disability because of his former habit. His lungs are in such bad shape that he's on oxygen almost 24 hurs a day and can't walk from the kitchen to the living room without breathing heavily.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 Illinois governor about to sign the statewide ban on smoking in public buildings <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/365712" target="_blank">http://www.suntimes.com/news/p olitics/365712</a>,01ban.article
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< I think it's just a threat. They can't prove it. If they try to impose a fine, all one would have to say is "it smelled like that when we arrived". >>> The GCH has been 100% smoke-free since it opened. They also have a policy of having you sign something at check-in regarding the $300 cleaning fee or whatever it is. It's not just in the fine print, but a separate piece of paper and the front desk CM always explains what it is and why you have to sign it. Given this policy, if you got to your room and it smelled of smoke, it's almost certain that you'd complain about it right away, and not wait until a charge hit your credit card and then call back (probably weeks later) with a vague claim of the room smelling of smoke when you got there. But absent such an up-front disclaimer, I would imagine that there would be the "plausible deniability" defense even if there was language buried on the registration form or a sign somewhere.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy >> "plausible deniability" << Ah -- the old "plausible deniability" defense.....
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Bravo WDW!!! Now, please make the entire property and all theme parks completely and utterly NO SMOKING and hopefully in the near future, we'll be able to retire that good old tee shirt slogan ("Help Control the Earth's Population: Keep Smoking!") off the face off the Earth forever!
Originally Posted By kennect I mentioned this today to a friend of mine who doesn't smoke or visit WDW...So they are unbiased...But their response was that they felt smoker's had some rights...OK OK OK, don't slap me.... What I want to know is how is this going to affect all those heavy smoking visitors that don't even request a smoking room when making reservations...I get a feeling that this new policy isn't going to go over well with some groups that visit WDW that aren't from the US...
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy What is the smoking policy in Tokyo Disney? And Disney Paris for that matter?
