My wife and I love it too -- and we got our friends addicted! :-)

My wife and I are going on a Transatlantic from Orlando to Barcelona in the spring on the Disney Magic, and then we are going on the maiden voyage of the new Disney Dream in January 2011! Best of all, the new Disney Dream has a cigar lounge (not that I mind using my verandah or the deck, but it is always nice to have a "special place" with comfy chairs, etc.:-))

[We cruise on Disney a lot since we have a timeshare with them, and we can use our timeshare for cruising!]
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That sounds awesome.
I went on one Disney cruise and found them to be nothing shy of outstanding.
Like anything Disney does, their ships are a truly nice and what a great experience for the kids.
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Here here! Been on two Disney Cruises. Outstanding. I recently went on a Carnival Cruise (in July) and had a suite. I didn't ask, so I just smoked on my balcony. Glad I didn't think to ask. They probably would have said no.:-)
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I'm hoping this works out right. I've never tried to attach anything on this board. If it works, you can see the relaxing atmosphere of the cigar lounge on the Pearl. I also remembered that they have Montecristo's and Partagas tubos for sale.
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:-)
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This is a picture of the inside of a souvenir shop in St. Thomas American Virgin Islands. I found the people there to be really nice. This walk in humidor was pretty good, although I really didn't care much for the guy behind the counter's knowledge...but that's just me. I didn't buy any cigars here, I went down to another place with a smaller humidor. The smaller humidor had open boxes of Opus', tins of Opus'; Fuente's; Padrons; and five packs of a cigar from Barbados that uses Cuban filler tobacco. (Royal Barbados maybe.) Anyway, my wife shopped for purses; tshirts; etc...and I shopped for cigars...seemed about right. :-)
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Hey Don...long time, no see. I understand, I just like to present cigar smokers in the best light possible...and I loved the lounge. Open 24 hrs...didn't have to buy anything...and the chairs were much more comfortable than the chairs on the balcony.
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Yeah, you're never in chat anymore Jim :-)

Never been on a cruise, I should go on one someday
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I too use to say that.
One day, did it.
Since then, hooked!!!
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This was our first. I loved Norwegian because of the "freestyle" cruising. Eat when you want with whoever you want as much as you want. My kind of cruise. The only problem is I liked the cigar lounge so much that I REALLY KILLED my humidor. Plus, I learned that when I come back in through customs...tell them that I bought the cigars on the ship. I got stopped because they wanted to take a look at my Nicaraguan cigars. Not fun when you've got about 5000 people behind you wanting to get through customs and they are making you dig through your carry on bag to find your humidor and show them SIX cigars! :-)
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hehe, its a good thing that Dutch customs didn't stop me when I came back from the US. I am allowed to bring in 50 cigars and 1 liter of alcohol. I had about 150 and 3 liters :-)
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I would have to agree...
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I agree as well. It's nice to have multiple choices.

On my cruise my favorite bartender would make me a nice drink in the evening (single malt scotch or tequila; usually a double) which I would take back to my room and enjoy on the balacony with a cigar and a good book. The great thing about the balacony is that you can leave the hustle-and-bustle of the ship behind for some peace and quiet.
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I went on the MSC Orchestra in the spring. It had a great Cigar Lounge. I met the author the "Fodor's Guide to Cruising" in the lounge, as she and her husband happened to be on the cruise reviewing the ship. They said it was the nicest cigar lounge on the seas, regardless of price (they've been on just about every ship). It is an Italian line, and I guess they never got around to clearing out the humidor when repositioning to the U.S. They had CCs available and even had Havana Club rum at the bar. Best of all, this was a very low price cruise, but it was great.
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That is the essence of it right there.

I also very much enjoy the ocean breeze and nothing but water ahead of you when spending the days at sea, sitting in the balcony early mornings, with a pot of coffee or two delivered to my room, and just float off into who knows where land. Wife is usually still asleep and it is the most quiet, all to myself, nothing to do, nowhere to go, no one to speak to time I can think of. It truly makes my trip.

Then of course, the cigar lounges and deck smoking areas are also places for me to enjoy but they generally have hustle and bustle.
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I think I was allowed 200 cigars...and I had SIX! lol I think the guy thought I was trying to get something past him...but...if I was trying to get something past him, I doubt if I would have declared them on the form! :-)
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I can respect that...the one thing I noticed was that I never felt crowded or caught up in the hustle and bustle. I was shocked because I thought I would always feel crowded, but didn't. The biggest number of people in the lounge at one time was 8. There were also times when I was in there by myself, although most of the time the number varied between 2-6.
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You brought up something very interesting to me. The ship we sailed on was owned by Norwegians and based out of Barbados. I thought that there would be a lot of CC's for sale, but there were none. I can understand that they would not have them for sale when the ship was in U.S. waters, but I thought they would be available when the ship was in international waters or a foreign port. I didn't miss them, and I'm sure there is a good legal reason for why it was this way, but I was surprised.
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Dang that sucks ;3 whats stopping you from somking it anyway what can they do kick you off in the middle of the ocean?
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Reports I get from Representatives is that you will be charged an extra $250 on your account because of them having to clean and "fumigate" your cabin and one cruise line actually kicked people off when they arrived at the next port. It was a woman with two teenage kids I think who were smoking inside their cabin and the steward turned them in and confiscated the cigarettes while he was cleaning the room.
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