| # | Author | Message |
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| SuperDry
Tue 9/18/2007 12:10a | We all know that WDW resorts recently went 100% smoke free in inside public areas, guest rooms, guest room balconies, and even most outside areas other than specifically-designated smoking areas.
What I didn't realize until last weekend was that this also includes DVC resorts. I don't remember a big stink over this from DVC owners that may have considered that they had a vested interest in a smoking room throughout their ownership period. Was DVC always 100% non-smoking? If so, that would explain it, but if not, I would have thought we'd have heard more about it. |
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| Mr X
Tue 9/18/2007 12:17a | I think smokers just sigh and shrug their shoulders these days, for the most part. |
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| vbdad55
Tue 9/18/2007 12:21a | There were smoking buildings at OKW - but even those for the most part ended up with non-smokers |
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| ADMIN
Tue 9/18/2007 4:17a | Message removed by an administrator. Click here for the LaughingPlace.com Community Standards. |
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| vbdad55
Tue 9/18/2007 7:34a | geez - what could cause this to be off track ? |
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| RoadTrip
Tue 9/18/2007 8:34a | I said that anyone smart enough to buy into DVC would also be smart enough not to smoke. I think Admin took it as a veiled jab against Mr X. Which of course it wasn't.
Maybe.
;-)
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| SuperDry
Wed 9/19/2007 12:07a | <<< There were smoking buildings at OKW - but even those for the most part ended up with non-smokers >>>
Ug. It's bad enough as a non-smoker getting stuck in a smoking room at a hotel - what would it be like at a place I ostensibly had partial ownership in? At OKW prior to the new rules, could you book confirmed space in a non-smoking building, such that you could be assured in getting a non-smoking room when you arrived, and such that non-smokers that ended up in the smoking building knew this at the time of booking?
And I do need to draw the distinction between smoking and non-smoking accommodation and smoking and non-smoking people: most of the smokers that I know would never smoke inside in their hotel room, and never smoke inside their own home. The only difficulty I see in the new rules for such people is the "no smoking on balconies" rule and more generally the "no smoking outside except in designated areas" rule now in force at the WDW resorts. |
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| vbdad55
Wed 9/19/2007 7:25a | my experiences have always been in buildings that were totally non smoking.
the had smoking buildings ( very few ) - and let's say at check in you really-- sometimes they could offer you one open in a smoking building. My sister did that once because she has her 'favorite' unit set up - and in the week she was there never saw a smoker or smelled smoke - even though it was a designated smoking building |
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| DVC_dad
Mon 11/26/2007 6:43a | <<<I don't remember a big stink over this from DVC owners that may have considered that they had a vested interest in a smoking room throughout their ownership period. >>>
When you buy in, you are not guaranteed a specific room. Yes legally you own said room with a number, or more than one, but you get what you get upon arrival and non-smoking has until now only been a request.
I have had to stay in a Smoking room at OKW before. It was in July of '04. We spent one night there and then were moved to a non-smoking room. My father smoked a pipe for many many years and I have nothing at all against smokers. But, I will say that it stinks, literally if you are not a smoker and I feel bad making my kids stay in a room like that. I was upset about the smoking room, and evidently some of you may not know people who smoke in their hotel rooms and may not smoke in their own homes...but don't kid yourself. There are enough people that smoke inside of hotel rooms that as a non smoker you can very easily tell and are bothered by it...not in a finger pointing, condescending way, just ... well it is what it is.
Bottom line:
I am very happy there are no smoking rooms at DVC's anymore. |
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| dshyates
Tue 2/12/2008 4:51p | I'm a smoker and the only place I smoke inside anymore is a bar. I don't smoke in my own place, and I live alone. I don't smoke in hotel rooms either. I don't like sitting in a smoke filled room after I'm done smoking. I'm not a heavy smoker and having to go outside I think keeps me from smoking as much. Usually 5-8 cigarettes a day. |
