WDW Resorts say Bye-bye to Smoking!
 

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-b...orl-home-promo

Yay! I always hate it when I end up in a room that has been smoked in. I know it sounds weird but when I am in a smokey hotel room my ears actually hurt...sometimes for days after:eek:

I've never been a big fan of government bans on smoking because it clashes with my "rights of the property owner" idealogy; but I am sure glad when a private organization does.

I imagine the people most hurt by this are in the lower affordability brackets anyway, so it probably won't impact Disney's business *too* much. And the added appeal to non- and anti-smokers of having a relatively smoke-free resort to take their families to. Good move.

Oh... except the European market may feel the pinch a bit. But perhaps Disney would rather they go to DLP anyway?

Do they have a plan in place to charge those who do smoke in the rooms, even if it's "not permitted"?

I can't tell you how many times (pretty much almost every time) I've booked a non-smoking room (and I'm not talking Vegas here) that's smelled like someone had smoked in it. How do they actually plan to stop it. Humans are notorious for "not caring" when an addiction is at stake.

they need to start selling nic patches at the front gate. they work wonders for me.

I am right there with you. Nothing more annoying than asking for a non-smoking room, and fidning out it USED to be a smoking room, or that there are no non-smoking rooms left.

Doesnt affect my ears, but my eyes will just feel as if they are on fire.

And the nic patch thing.... whatever.
They arent supposed to be a crutch, they were intended as a tool I thought.

a crutch, under the right circumstances, is indeed a tool

As blueerica points out, does changing this policy really solve this problem? Sure it might make a small number of people think twice, but if you requested a non-smoking room and smell smoke, then it was someone who is already ignoring a non-smoking policy that was the cause of it. Unless they have some new way to monitor and enforce, I'm skeptical that it will change anything (aside from the, "Oh I'm sorry, all we have left is smoking rooms," annoyance which I suppose is a benefit).

I tried the patch but it was too hard to keep lit.

I can't remember where I saw it, maybe when I stayed at the Raddison last month. They had something like a $500 cleanup fee or some such for smoking in a non-smoking room (all their rooms were supposedly non-smoking).

yup. a lot of hotels are going that route now. many will add to the bill after the fact if they discover it later.
cant blame em. Ive seen what all my years of smoking has left on walls and in carpets (not to mention the guy who worked on my computer asking me 'did you guys have a fire?')

its a habit I can do without...getting there is a long a$$ trip though.