Crystal Symphony Review

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Smoker's Paradise Puts Real Cloud Over Voyage

Review for Canada & New England Cruise on Crystal Symphony
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brittany12
10+ Cruises • Age 80s

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Sail Date: Oct 2012

This ship and its Japanese owners are throwbacks to the days of when restaurants, hotels, theaters, airplanes and office buildings permitted smoking, either in segregated areas or throughout, and non smokers silently suffered. The world standards have changed but barely Crystal.

This is the only cruise line left afloat that still allows smoking in staterooms. So the smoke from the smokers rises into the ships's air-conditioning systems and spreads it's noxious fumes everywhere. Hallways outside of staterooms reek in places of the odor from smoke coming-out into the hallways from adjacent smokers smoking inside . Same in certain of the more interesting bars, where the ship honors the old airplane tradition of territoriality, by allowing smoking on one side of the bar but not the other, as if the smoke respects boundaries and does not waft over and contaminate the air in the rest of the bar where the nonsmokers gather and hope to avoid the cloud of foul air coming from the few smokers only feet away that they have to breath. Sitting at a table 20 feet from the bar does not help.

So much for what makes this ship and this cruise line stand out among the worst there is from a good health standpoint. If you are a smoker, this is the ship for you. If you long for the old days when smokers ruled the roost, and the cigarette industry fooled the public, or a non smoker who simply does not know the difference or does not care enough, this is for you. If not, think options.Public spaces on the ship are lovely, and the Hollywood theater for daily movies is a very nice feature on the wide screen. the nightclub entertainment is very good, with a large show band and talented performers singing and dancing their way in excellent produced shows with very good production values of great costumes, lighting and scenery.

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