I too am in shock. It was only 2 months ago on the World Cruise that Mark Conroy and Christian were on board and this subject was heavily discussed. My understanding (and other World Cruisers who are currently onboard the Voyager with us right now)was that the best solution would be to have some blocks of rooms that did allow smoking. This may not be as big a problem on shorter 1 or 2 week cruises but for the 4 month World Cruise......WOW!!! This is NOT going to go over well at all!!! This is NOT what was discussed (I was at both meetings). Both smokers and non-smokers were very much in favor of the "block of rooms idea" that seemed like a win-win for everyone.

We will likely take a wait and see approach and see what other cruise lines do (or don't do) with their policy before making any decisions. We have approximately 350 nights on RSSC, with 3 future cruises booked. Up until this new policy, everything was close to perfect in our opinion.