Not hard to think of considering some hotels allow smoking on the balcony. We just stayed at great wolf lodge and even though the hotel was non-smoking there was an ashtray mounted to our porch wall. No fine print about not smoking on them. We still had someone complain the management when we pointed out the ashtray.
Not true. I had a neighbor that smoked out there constantly and I complained numerous times. They said that there was nothing they can do unless security actually catches them. And security is never in a rush to check it out. My neighbors actually had an ashtray sitting out and they still did nothing. Maybe different resorts handle it differently. The manager I spoke to was a smoker so I got the impression that he didn't care.
Not my experience. But like you said, different resorts, different managers....
At Disneyland there fewer places by far and apparently for the Halloween Party, none. Its California, much stricter antismoking laws, maybe one day we will catch up.
California also has a huge pollution problem, more than any other state. It makes sense they minimize smoking, which would cause additional pollution.
Actually its not really polluted as bad as many eastern states. LA has issues due to winds and how cnn it works as a valley, but they are at the forefront in terms of protections even against cancer causing products. And your kidding about the smoking adding to like overall air pollution right? I mean they haven't outlawed grills. Lol https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/top-20-most-polluted-states-in-the-us.html
Los Angeles remains the most polluted city in the United States. And no, actually, some studies suggest that smoking actually is worse than exhaust for air pollution: https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20040823/smoking-worse-than-exhaust-for-air-pollution#1
We are discussing pollution and your discussing fire hazards. Also you realize Anaheim and Los Angelos are two separate cities, and I said myself that Los Angelo's as a city is an outlier, but you said California. As for cigarettes thank you for the info it's amazing what these lower emission cars are doing, I would wager camp fires and grills cause as much if not more than a cigarette as well.
Yeah not bad, you know what is the weirdest is that if you check out the map for Poly, there are literally none near the Moorea building and even the Pago Pago has a bit of hike to get to one, seems very strange.
Smoking is prohibited for the sake of non-smoking guests in most places not because of fire hazards. In general Disney tries to put the smoking areas in places away from where other non-smoking guests tend to be. I would suggest your best option is to get your in-laws some nicotine gum or patches because if they are heavy smokers they are going to be getting pretty cranky walking in Disney looking for smoking areas.
Just the mom in law. And yeah the gum might be an idea, this post though was about the resorts, and the lack of reason behind the locations ( or none at all) of some of the smoking sections . For instance at POR you have a ploretha of options...maybe they figure more people smoke at moderate? I would say there are too many options actually. At Poly, if your a hotel guest, plenty of options but on the DVC side there is a whole area with none.
It may have to do with the date that the resorts were built. Not entirely familiar with the building codes and regulations in Orlando but it is entirely possible that the regulations associated with smoking areas have changed over time and became more restrictive as time went on. If that is the case it would explain why Wilderness lodge is more restrictive than POR because POR was build early than Wilderness and the DVC side of Poly was newer than the old Poly side.
The DVC side is just the old buildings renovated into studios so this doesnt make sense. Especially since Saratoga has way more(one near each building and that is much more recent.
