Originally posted by FLYNZ4
I am simply predicting that over time, I expect this to become the norm... not the exception. Somehow, I expected that Disney would have been a leader in this area.
/Jim
Not only was Disney not the leader in this area; my prediction is Disney will never eliminate smoking rooms entirely. They get too many guests, especially from overseas, that are smokers.
Personally I think they do not have enough smoking rooms which causes the problems with guests MANY times being told by CMs to smoke in the room anyhow, causes problems with guests smoking on the balcony (where it is prefectly allowed in ALL WDW rooms) and having non smokers complain that they can smell the smoke from 50 ft away and through layers of concrete (??) and causes the problems that people just smoke on their own in a non smoking room even without the front desk CMs permission.
I am amazed when I read about all these people that get stuck with smoking rooms. Since the vast majority of rooms are non smoking it is really strange that people that request non smoking get smoking rooms, yet those that request smoking rooms can't get them!
We have had smokers in our traveling group and have requested a non smoking room and have been told there were none? We have also been told to smoke in a non smoking room (no one did) and have been told it is fine to smoke on any WDW balcony.
I especially think BWV made a very big mistake by changing all boardwalk villas into non smoking villas. First of all it is not giving the same choices of room selections to all members and also it will now accomplish nothing but having more people smoking in a non smoking room and on the balconies--because they want a boardwalk view.
Personally it does not really matter to me, because either a smoking or a non smoking room is fine with me--and I have asthma--and I have never experienced some of the over the top stuff that people post on these boards! But I really feel some of the really dramatic anti smokers are pushing to the point that they better watch what they wish for. There are always going to be a lot of smokers at WDW and although I highly, highly doubt WDW will ever eliminate all smoking rooms, I know they will never stop people from smoking on their balconies. Consequently if by a very slim chance there were no smoking rooms/villas to be had---there is going to be an awful lot of guests smoking on their balconies and I really doubt the "I can smell smoke from the villa 2 floors below and through 8 ft of concrete", is going to hold water. And I also think this will cause a lot of people to smoke in non smoking rooms. Smokers are DVC members the same as anyone else and they have the same right to enjoy their villa as anyone else does--if this is taken away, I could see people getting annoyed to the point of smoking in their villa anyway. It already happens now.
As far as Disney charging extra to clean a non smoking room that was smoked in----I again doubt it. They don't charge members/guests that have kids that do distruction to the villas, nor do they charge the members/guests that steal kitchenware etc from the villas, nor do they charge guests for the extra cleaning that needs to be done to a villa/room that has a sickening, strong and lingering odor of perfume or strange cooking odors, etc.--then I highly doubt they will or in fairness could charge for cleaning a non smoking room that has been smoked in.
...........very intresting. Do I see a vote coming from DVC members......
