No Smoking in Hotels

Well, at Walt Disney World...anyway. Disney is instituting a "No Smoking" policy at all of it's WDW Resorts (Disneyland already had the policy in place). Guests will not be permitted to smoke in the hotel common areas...or even in their rooms...and will be relegated to no smoking areas outside.

I thought this was interesting given our conversation last week about the designated smoking areas around Cedar Point. I actually remember when the CP Resorts decided to designate no smoking rooms. It was quite a process to decide how many rooms should be non smoking, what locations and so forth.

Very interesting. Although, on some of the Disney boards I go to, I've heard quite a few complaints about smoke from smoking sections filtering non-smoking rooms through the ducts.

And what good does it do to relegate the smokers to no smoking areas outside? ;)

Hmmm...that is a darn good question!

Funny you should be talking about the non-smoking rooms at CP. This weekend I tried to book a non-smoking room in the bon aire section of HB. (I love cheap hotel rooms). Anyway, all of those rooms were already booked, to get a non-smoking room we would have had to pay $20 more a night for a lake view room. So we ended up with a smoking room because I'd rather have that $80 in my pocket.

Honestly, I don't even care about being in a smoking room. I'm just annoyed that what I wanted was already gone and the park isn't even open yet! August is still 4 months away! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?!? *insert temper tantrum here*

They need more hotel rooms. It's a shame they're running out of space ;)

According to the Getaway Guide Lighthouse Point, Castaway bay, and Sandcastle Suites are all smoke free resorts. Read the fine print after the package plan pricing.

I work for a Marriott hotel in Beachwood, Ohio. As of mid October all Marriott hotels went smoke free. If we find evidence of smoking in the room, you are assesed a $250 fee PER INCIDENT! So far we only had to charge 2 rooms this fee.

People are sooo rude about smoking in a non smoking room,lets face it they dont care,as long as the pay for the room.I can tell right away if the room has been smoked in.

I would love it if all CP hotels were smoke free. As for the designated smoking areas, I just got back from WDW and they work out great there.

As we all know by now there is a smoking ban in Ohio. I believe this should affect all CP restaurants and hotels. Maybe CP found a way to get around that, but from my understanding it is illegal for anyone to smoke in a public building. It'll be interesting to see if they still allow smoking in places like Breakers, TGI Fridays, Famous Daves, etc...

CP will be subject to the same rules as everyone else. It sounds to me like they plan on enforcing it.

Of course CP will honor the smoking ban, and Famous Daves and TGIFridays will be smoke free. I'm not sure if the smoking ban allows hotels to offer smoking rooms, it may.

The ban says that no more than 20% of all the rooms in any hotel may be used as smoking rooms. So it'll be up to CP as to whether or not they want to keep their smoking rooms.

I went to the TGI Fridays next to Castaway Bay on Thursday after running out to the Point to get my season pass. The remodeling was really nice. NO SMOKING was even nicer!

For what its worth... I was out tonight, and as I drove through Rocky River, Fairview and North Olmsted, there were a lot of people outside smoking. I read on another board that some smokers are making the best out of it, and saying they met nice people out there, that they might not normally have talked to otherwise.

1EJ *** Edited 5/6/2007 3:18:42 AM UTC by 1eyedjack***