Cigars On Cruise

Originally Posted by Blueface

Come on!!!
You can do it!!!
Do you ever go one mile over the speed limit?
If this balcony issue was one similar to no smoking in your room, or no smoking in the dining room, or no smoking wherever there are groups of folks congregating, would agree.
On a balcony? Wait to you get there and see how seldom anyone uses a balcony. That rule would never stop me and would not feel bad about it.
It is an idiotic one.

I FULLY understand your position. If it were a matter that there were no place to enjoy my cigar, then I might be inclined to go along with you. However, that's not the case and I think that I'll do my part to make sure cigar smokers keep their good reputation for not infringing on other people's rights. And, yes, the rule may be idiotic...but if everyone just follows the rules they agree with there would be anarchy. Plus...my wife told me I couldn't smoke out there.

[Whee]

Originally Posted by jbo57

I FULLY understand your position. If it were a matter that there were no place to enjoy my cigar, then I might be inclined to go along with you. However, that's not the case and I think that I'll do my part to make sure cigar smokers keep their good reputation for not infringing on other people's rights. And, yes, the rule may be idiotic...but if everyone just follows the rules they agree with there would be anarchy. Plus...my wife told me I couldn't smoke out there.

Always a much higher authority than any corporate establishment.

[Blueface]

Originally Posted by jbo57

Plus...my wife told me I couldn't smoke out there.

Why didn't you say so before?
Now THAT is a rule one must follow.
Smart man!
Only way I have lasted 33 years with my wife is by either obeying her rules OR letting her think I do.

I was on an NCL cruise last year and had no problem smoking cigars on the balcony - looking to book a second - if they changed there policy that may change the line on book on.

[DrDubzz]

on Royal Carribean, there's a smoking side and a non-smoking side. So if you want to smoke, you can simply go to the starboard side of the ship and sit on the deck chairs out there, or go to the port side for smoke free relaxation.

plus there was the cigar bar after 9pm in the library

Originally Posted by Blueface

From NCL's website.

We want you to be comfortable on board, so public areas throughout all NCL ships are smoke free. If you smoke cigarettes, you can do so in your stateroom, on your balcony, in the casino or Cigar Bar (where available). If you prefer pipes or cigars, you can smoke in the Cigar Bar or designated smoking lounge. Also, you can smoke cigarettes, pipes and cigars outside on open decks (just not around food venues, sport decks, kids' pool areas and other designated non-smoking areas).

I consider a balcony outside and consider it an open deck.
I never saw this as an issue and this proves.
Can't phantom someone not complaining about cigarettes yet complaining about cigars, on a balcony, where the wind is blowing nearly off the ship.
An attorney in the house, please translate the parenthesis part as that clearly says to me, it is perfectly OK.
DUDE, light up and enjoy!!! Life is short.

You are right about what they say on NCL,,,but remember, you are crusing on NCL which doesn't have the best rating so you might want to consider this when picking any cruiseline.

Name Score

07 08
1 1 Crystal Cruises 90.67
2 2 Regent Seven Seas Cruises 88.71
3 4 Disney Cruise Line 82.50
4 3 Oceania Cruises 81.32
5 5 Cunard Line 80.07
6 6 Celebrity Cruises 78.37
7 7 Holland America 77.92
8 8 Princess Cruises 75.80
9 9 Royal Caribbean 73.09
10 - 10 Norwegian Cruise Line 68.26

Originally Posted by RX2010

on Royal Carribean, there's a smoking side and a non-smoking side. So if you want to smoke, you can simply go to the starboard side of the ship and sit on the deck chairs out there, or go to the port side for smoke free relaxation.

plus there was the cigar bar after 9pm in the library

You are correct except that on some of RC boats the library isn't used anymore for cigar smoking as the same for the Viking Lounge.

[Blueface]

Originally Posted by Cigary

You are correct except that on some of RC boats the library isn't used anymore for cigar smoking as the same for the Viking Lounge.

Say it ain't so.
Going on the Navigator of the Seas in December. They have a nice Library with cigars and great high end cigar booze.
I have evolved to loving RC and sit on their deck and smoke away, on the smoker side. Have never had an issue. Have gone the last 7 or 8 or so cruises with them. Also enjoy my morning pot of coffee with a PC on my balcony.

Originally Posted by Blueface

Say it ain't so.
Going on the Navigator of the Seas in December. They have a nice Library with cigars and great high end cigar booze.
I have evolved to loving RC and sit on their deck and smoke away, on the smoker side. Have never had an issue. Have gone the last 7 or 8 or so cruises with them. Also enjoy my morning pot of coffee with a PC on my balcony.

Not all of the RC ships have a ban. Call your rep and ensure that the Viking Lounge will be open because I know they closed it on the Majesty of the Seas to all cigars and cigarettes. The Navigator is a nice boat and you will enjoy it and the last time I was on it they allowed cigars in the lounge but the way some things go,,,call ahead. Love the morning pot of "Joe" on the balcony and breakfast. I brought 20 cigars with me on my short 4 night cruise and smoked every single one of them.

[Random Guy]

My wife and I went on a cruise to Alaska on the Norwegian Star in 2007. I smoked cigars on the outside deck and on an upper level with the pool. No one said anything to me. We didn't have a balcony though. The cigar bar was empty all the time.

I'm hoping this works out right. I've never tried to attach anything on this board. If it works, you can see the relaxing atmosphere of the cigar lounge on the Pearl. I also remembered that they have Montecristo's and Partagas tubos for sale.

This is a picture of the inside of a souvenir shop in St. Thomas American Virgin Islands. I found the people there to be really nice. This walk in humidor was pretty good, although I really didn't care much for the guy behind the counter's knowledge...but that's just me. I didn't buy any cigars here, I went down to another place with a smaller humidor. The smaller humidor had open boxes of Opus', tins of Opus'; Fuente's; Padrons; and five packs of a cigar from Barbados that uses Cuban filler tobacco. (Royal Barbados maybe.) Anyway, my wife shopped for purses; tshirts; etc...and I shopped for cigars...seemed about right.

[Don Fernando]

Yeah, you're never in chat anymore Jim

Never been on a cruise, I should go on one someday

[Blueface]

Originally Posted by Don Fernando

Never been on a cruise, I should go on one someday

I too use to say that.
One day, did it.
Since then, hooked!!!

Originally Posted by Don Fernando

Yeah, you're never in chat anymore Jim

Never been on a cruise, I should go on one someday

This was our first. I loved Norwegian because of the "freestyle" cruising. Eat when you want with whoever you want as much as you want. My kind of cruise. The only problem is I liked the cigar lounge so much that I REALLY KILLED my humidor. Plus, I learned that when I come back in through customs...tell them that I bought the cigars on the ship. I got stopped because they wanted to take a look at my Nicaraguan cigars. Not fun when you've got about 5000 people behind you wanting to get through customs and they are making you dig through your carry on bag to find your humidor and show them SIX cigars!

[Don Fernando]

hehe, its a good thing that Dutch customs didn't stop me when I came back from the US. I am allowed to bring in 50 cigars and 1 liter of alcohol. I had about 150 and 3 liters

Originally Posted by Don Fernando

hehe, its a good thing that Dutch customs didn't stop me when I came back from the US. I am allowed to bring in 50 cigars and 1 liter of alcohol. I had about 150 and 3 liters

I think I was allowed 200 cigars...and I had SIX! lol I think the guy thought I was trying to get something past him...but...if I was trying to get something past him, I doubt if I would have declared them on the form!

[Caymus]

I went on the MSC Orchestra in the spring. It had a great Cigar Lounge. I met the author the "Fodor's Guide to Cruising" in the lounge, as she and her husband happened to be on the cruise reviewing the ship. They said it was the nicest cigar lounge on the seas, regardless of price (they've been on just about every ship). It is an Italian line, and I guess they never got around to clearing out the humidor when repositioning to the U.S. They had CCs available and even had Havana Club rum at the bar. Best of all, this was a very low price cruise, but it was great.

Originally Posted by Caymus

I went on the MSC Orchestra in the spring. It had a great Cigar Lounge. I met the author the "Fodor's Guide to Cruising" in the lounge, as she and her husband happened to be on the cruise reviewing the ship. They said it was the nicest cigar lounge on the seas, regardless of price (they've been on just about every ship). It is an Italian line, and I guess they never got around to clearing out the humidor when repositioning to the U.S. They had CCs available and even had Havana Club rum at the bar. Best of all, this was a very low price cruise, but it was great.

You brought up something very interesting to me. The ship we sailed on was owned by Norwegians and based out of Barbados. I thought that there would be a lot of CC's for sale, but there were none. I can understand that they would not have them for sale when the ship was in U.S. waters, but I thought they would be available when the ship was in international waters or a foreign port. I didn't miss them, and I'm sure there is a good legal reason for why it was this way, but I was surprised.

[Santesyu]

Dang that sucks ;3 whats stopping you from somking it anyway what can they do kick you off in the middle of the ocean?

Originally Posted by Santesyu

Dang that sucks ;3 whats stopping you from somking it anyway what can they do kick you off in the middle of the ocean?

Reports I get from Representatives is that you will be charged an extra $250 on your account because of them having to clean and "fumigate" your cabin and one cruise line actually kicked people off when they arrived at the next port. It was a woman with two teenage kids I think who were smoking inside their cabin and the steward turned them in and confiscated the cigarettes while he was cleaning the room.