squirk
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- Apr 9, 2011
See, I don't know why the rules aren't being more aggressively enforced now and having never smelled a whiff of smoke, I'm shocked that they aren't. Above, I hear about people constantly bothered by neighbors smoking on balconies, why haven't those people been chucked off the ship at the next port? (Or they can go directly in the drink as far as I'm concerned.) Why aren't the pot smokers handed over to the authorities at the next port for drug smuggling?
I think Carnival just updated their policies about a year ago to make clearer that they reserve the right to “chuck off” a stateroom party for smoking infractions.
I’m guessing that option has always been in the contract, but generalized under the right to boot a guest for any repeated infraction of the rules
The fact that CCL felt the need to reinforce the point re: smoking, jack up the penalties and explicitly mention they could kick off your entire party suggests (to me, at least) that it’s a continuing problem.
I think the main issues with enforcement are:
a.) sometimes you can’t tell where the smoke is coming from (i.e., the wind could be blowing it from more than one direction), so you don’t know which stateroom to report;
b.) the evidence can be disposed of quickly if a CM comes a-knockin’, and there isn’t much on the verandahs to absorb incriminating odors; and
c.) I’m not sure how well a smoke detector would work in an open-air environment with a decent breeze, or how sensitive it would have to be to pick up cigarette/cigar smoke (vs. the heavier “something is on fire that shouldn’t be” smoke).
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