Cruise ships have different rules than hotels and entertainment venues on land. Some of those rules are practical. You cannot, for example, light a candle in your cabin.
On land, a candle can help create a romantic atmosphere with only a small chance of burning down your house, but on a cruise ship, the dangers are much greater. A small fire can turn into a catastrophe. Thus, candles, power strips, curling irons and clothes irons, among many other things, are prohibited on cruise ships.
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Cruise ships also have very specific rules when it comes to smoking. You may never smoke in your cabin or on the balcony of a cabin. This is partly due to the risk of fire and partly due to the way smoke travels.
Most regular cruisers have experienced someone breaking the smoking rules on their balcony. Smome travels upstairs and smoking in places where it is not allowed usually leads to other passengers calling security and the penalty for getting caught could be anything from a warning to being kicked off the ship. .
Both Carnival Cruise Lines (CCL) and real caribbean (RCL) They allow smoking in some parts of their casinos. Royal Caribbean has small, non-smoking casinos on its Oasis-class ships, while its Celebrity Cruises line only allows smoking on a small section of its pool deck.
However, the two rival cruise lines have strict rules when it comes to gambling.
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Carnival asked a key question about the rules on board
If you walk around a cruise ship, you will usually see people playing various games. Some play card games, while others have dominoes, board games, and other types of games. Carnival and Royal Caribbean encourage gambling (they even have card rooms on some ships), but there are certain rules.
Carnival brand ambassador John Heald recently responded to an onboard controversy related to gameplay.
“Why has LRC been banned? Left Right Center is a game that hundreds of Carnival cruise ships play every week on their ships. I ask because, according to Cruise***'s website, the game has been banned on ships “, wrote “V”. on Heald's facebook page. “We have played this game with my friends who sail with us for years. Why this game and not others? Please explain.”
The poster followed his question with threats and anger.
“This is the type of rule that will drive cruisers away from Carnival and toward other cruise lines. This is being done to line the casino's pockets. Admit it and stop being stupid,” they wrote.
Carnival makes its gaming policy clear
Heald has addressed this issue before, but made it clear in his response that gambling is not the problem.
“Thank you 'V' and the game itself has not been banned. Playing for money in any game outside the casino is strictly prohibited. There are no exceptions, not even for quarters, as I may have been mistaken a few days ago,” Heald wrote. .
This post came after an incident where several passengers were playing dice for money on one of Carnival's ships. Heald shared the rules again because he saw some media outlets getting it wrong about the cruise line's policies.
“I saw that some of the cut-and-paste news sites that report my posts and repost them on their pages had the headline that we had banned the game. We haven't. You can play any game you want, but don't for money. And to suggest that this is so that money is spent in our casinos is nonsense,” he added.
The post was largely supported by Heald's facebook followers.
“I love it when they say 'this will drive people away'. These are not real problems that will stop people from sailing. That statement should only be allowed if John said the entire ship was removing all food or they would no longer have cabin doors.” , published Stephen Phillip Hawker.
