Royal Caribbean Smoking Policy

From January 2008 smoking will not be permitted in staterooms, the only exception being for those guests with a balcony/veranda, smoking will be permitted on this balcony/veranda area only.
For the comfort of Royal Caribbean guests, smoking is not permitted in most areas of our ships and in staterooms. However, to provide an onboard environment that also satisfies smokers, Royal Caribbean do have designated smoking areas in many of their lounges and on designated open air decks. This policy is fleetwide from January 2008 with the exception of Legend, Rhapsody and Splendour Of The Seas, who will adopt this policy in approximately April 2008.

To protect the smoke-free nature of all staterooms, the cruise line will post a $250 cleaning fee to the accounts of any guests who smoke or allow smoking in their non-smoking staterooms.  This charge shall not apply to sailings in Asia, Brazil or those that originate out of the Dominican Republic although violators of our smoking policy on those cruises may be subject to other actions by the cruise line as outlined in their Guest Conduct Policy.
Please note that the above policy is subject to revision in order to comply with current UK health legislation, the intention of which when fully implemented is that the smoke free provisions of The Health Act 2006 will apply to all cruise ships when they are arriving or departing from a UK port and while within UK territorial waters.

SMOKING POLICY FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE SEAS

Commencing May 2008, Independence of the Seas sailings from Southampton will only permit smoking in the following areas throughout the duration of the voyage:

- The balconies of guest staterooms

- The port side of all open decks - i.e. deck 4, 11 and 12

- The deck 4 portion of the Labyrinth Night Club

- The Connoisseur Club (deck 5)