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Post by trailboss on Mar 19, 2017 1:43:36 GMT -5
The though of going on vacation to be stuck on a boat with 5,000 other people and risk the chance of sickness that spreads like wildfire...no thanks. I think that if I do anything of the sort, it will be a Rhine river cruise where you aren't stuck on a ship all day and enjoy a smoke. You have to copy and paste to your browser, for whatever reason it won't let me hotlink it.travel.startsat60.com/#!/articles/smoking-on-a-cruise
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Post by stvalentine on Mar 19, 2017 7:23:53 GMT -5
The port of Hamburg is just about 60 kilometers from where I live and meanwhile roughly 200 cruise ships come in per year. When I was frequently visiting the QUEEN MARY 2 (the 2nd. captain is a friend of mine) they once had a quarantine over the ship because of a sickness that had spread. Very disturbing to say the least. Alternatively there are a lot of river cruises available in Europe and I supose that this provides for more opporunities to have a smoke too.
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Post by papipeguy on Mar 19, 2017 8:17:55 GMT -5
We've taken only 3 cruises and were lucky enough that no one got sick. On our last cruise we had a suite with a 300 square foot private deck. Nothing like a pipe in private and no one to bother me.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Mar 19, 2017 9:06:35 GMT -5
In 72 I was doing a Big Turnaround for Exxon, we opted to go on a cruise to Jamica, Start-up of the unit cut in on our departure so Exxon footed the bill to fly to Jamica to meet the ship. We took my 4 yr old boy Ira , my father and mother had the twins which ere babies, I also took my wife's Aunt who had raised my wife at her sisters death. We flew Jamician Airlines and had a fashion show on the plane. I always have a good laugh at the taxi ride to the hotel, curve after curves road you would have thought we were 20 miles from the hotel. When we got to our rooms, walking on th Balconey you could spit on the Airport.HaHa. I rented a car and we went sight seeing, if you don't remember Jamica really was a hostile country so I was very wary, stopping for gas I let them fill up, noticed the strong smell of gas, got out and the attendant was pumping the gas in the ditch for a bigger payout. Told him hey Buddy it goes in the tank. Was not impressed with Jamica. We boarded the Southward, Norweigan line, was treated like royalty, my 4 yr old had to have rice and gravy dinner and supper, they made sure he had it, superb service and it was her Madien Voyage. I smoked my pipe everywhere but the engine room, there was much gossip about me I found out, with, my dark complection they thought I was Arab and I enforced the gossip by saying I was traveling with my Harem, I really laugh at this nowadays . We shot skeet on deck, even had a Mardi Grais night where we made costumes for the boy, with a newfound friend a little girl his age from Georgia. We used the chrome ashtrays as Space hats and a lot of tin foil ashats, they won a prize , but they were the only ones in their class HaHa . Comeing back someone suffered a heart attack and the Stabilizers were retracted and we rocked and tooled. Old Navy man that I was it was no bother for me, but the old Aunt got sick. All in all it's something the wife and I treasure, now the ships are too big, no intimate feeling, no smoking everywhere I believe the Europen River cruises are the only thing I would like.
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Post by peterd-Buffalo Spirit on Mar 19, 2017 9:55:31 GMT -5
If I pay that kind of money for a vacation...I expect to be able to enjoy my smoke...
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Post by trailboss on Mar 19, 2017 10:08:52 GMT -5
We've taken only 3 cruises and were lucky enough that no one got sick. On our last cruise we had a suite with a 300 square foot private deck. Nothing like a pipe in private and no one to bother me. On all of the cruise lines on the page I posted, smoking anywhere around a cabin nowadays results in being bounced off the ship, and find your own way home. I bet that many forms of debauchery would result in a stern warning, but if horror of horrors, if you are caught smoking you are marooned.
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Post by papipeguy on Mar 19, 2017 14:19:36 GMT -5
I never ask permission nor seek forgiveness. The ship was a Norwegian Liner and did have a cigar/smoking room but it was small and very stuffy.
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Post by stvalentine on Mar 19, 2017 14:29:34 GMT -5
Next thing is they let you smoke just in a life raft while towing you behind the ship.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2017 15:38:40 GMT -5
Next thing is they let you smoke just in a life raft while towing you behind the ship. Sounds like my kind of fun.
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Post by trailboss on Mar 19, 2017 16:37:02 GMT -5
I never ask permission nor seek forgiveness. The ship was a Norwegian Liner and did have a cigar/smoking room but it was small and very stuffy. That is awesome. I am with the "it is easier to ask forgiveness than it is to ask permission" in them circumstances. I am guessing that now, they have smoke detectors hardwired throughout the ship?
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Post by Lady Margaret on Mar 19, 2017 20:28:00 GMT -5
Next thing is they let you smoke just in a life raft while towing you behind the ship.
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Post by sparks on Mar 20, 2017 8:19:19 GMT -5
The idea of a cruise never really appealed to me. Give me a some sand, the ocean and a lounge chair and I'm happy.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 9:08:51 GMT -5
The idea of a cruise never really appealed to me. Give me a some sand, the ocean and a lounge chair and I'm happy. More to my liking as well. I don't want to be in a floating hotel with a ton of other people, making ports of call and only having a short time at each.
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Post by Lady Margaret on Mar 20, 2017 10:44:46 GMT -5
hubby and i don't like beaches or heat. only cruises we'd be interested in is one to Alaska or on European waterways. We prefer to vacation in the woods 
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Post by simnettpratt on Mar 20, 2017 13:46:52 GMT -5
Me too; I didn't know anyone else was like that. My 80 year old parents have gone on a bunch of cruises and love them, but they don't sound appealing to me - I'm not interested in the canned shows or meeting other people, and would much rather have a real adventure in the wild with the critters. Besides, they tout how cheap the tickets are for them, but staying drunk for two weeks on cruise ship beer would cost me a fortune. Give me a backpack and some good shoes and let me head off into the bundu, and I can smoke any damn place I want. My old Suzuki, a book and a pipe made for some great overnighters: explore till you find a place with a view you can put your sleeping bag and head back in the morning. Here in Texas, if you lie completely still for about half an hour you can get vultures to land next to you. It's a staring contest; blink once and they're on to you. Kinda mean to the vultures, I suppose 
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Post by Lady Margaret on Mar 20, 2017 14:06:18 GMT -5
Me too; I didn't know anyone else was like that. My 80 year old parents have gone on a bunch of cruises and love them, but they don't sound appealing to me - I'm not interested in the canned shows or meeting other people, and would much rather have a real adventure in the wild with the critters. Besides, they tout how cheap the tickets are for them, but staying drunk for two weeks on cruise ship beer would cost me a fortune. Give me a backpack and some good shoes and let me head off into the bundu, and I can smoke any damn place I want. My old Suzuki, a book and a pipe made for some great overnighters: explore till you find a place with a view you can put your sleeping bag and head back in the morning. Here in Texas, if you lie completely still for about half an hour you can get vultures to land next to you. It's a staring contest; blink once and they're on to you. Kinda mean to the vultures, I suppose
LOL! I can't find much sympathy for the vultures in such a case. Yes, everyone in WV seems to vacation on east coast beaches or want to go on cruises, and hubby and I plan trips to our family cabin. Maybe this year I will take him out to Dolly Sods, which is much like an English Moor from what I've read, and camp out for a weekend. It was once used for ordinance training during WWII and there are still unexploded ordinance being found from time to time. Having been trained in demolitions, hubby has a keen interest in visiting the place. But there is plenty of wildlife and hiking available in the area too, so if we don't find any ordinance at least he won't be bored.
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Post by trailboss on Mar 20, 2017 14:15:30 GMT -5
The best vacation that I ever had was two weeks in the backcountry with a buddy that was a helicopter pilot. With dry Ice and knowledge of the rivers and creeks of runoff snow melt, he set us up with caches of steaks, lobster, cold beer, and everything else you can imagine on a hike, and he bear proofed the edibles...it was a great hike and we dined and drank like kings...a lot of cool wildlife that you would never see in a park.
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Post by Lady Margaret on Mar 20, 2017 14:35:09 GMT -5
The best vacation that I ever had was two weeks in the backcountry with a buddy that was a helicopter pilot. With dry Ice and knowledge of the rivers and creeks of runoff snow melt, he set us up with caches of steaks, lobster, cold beer, and everything else you can imagine on a hike, and he bear proofed the edibles...it was a great hike and we dined and drank like kings...a lot of cool wildlife that you would never see in a park.
sounds awesome!
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Post by stvalentine on Mar 20, 2017 14:42:17 GMT -5
I will hit the road with some friends on our Harley this year. We will visit the Czech Republic. A lot of riding, drinking and misbehaving is our idea of a holiday.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Mar 20, 2017 15:25:51 GMT -5
My best 3 day vac was with 2 co workers night fishing off of Timbalier Island. My 2 buddies were used to expensive charter trips, I knew the area and convinced them to do a po boy trip. That afternoon we were cruising in a 24 ft open fisherman I spied a Spud barge, comeing alongside I hailed the Capt and asked him if he needed some beer, 2 six packs got us use of the engine room to sleep in until 1 am where we would scout the little rigs for red fish. It was nippy, we dumped rag boxes by the Diesel engines and listened to the hum of the engines. 1 AM came and we were off, the Capt and deckhand asked to go, climb aboard was our answer. The Capt told me of a rig that was leaning and barge after barge of shells were dumped to stop the leaning. That night the condition we encountered was a rare phorous glow, plankton that made the fish look like neon signs, the shells had made the rig alive with red fish. We fished till 4 AM, catching our limit and seeing a light show people rarely see. We put the boat on the trailer by an old bait shop and a young girl in a beat up truck was selling crabs, 10$ a dozen, my buddies tried to Jew her down to 5$ I shamed them as I knew the life of the fisherman was hard, she said they were trying to pay off the grocery bill at the little store. We bought crabs at 10$ a doz, before we left I went in the store and asked the owner about the young girl. He said she had just got married and was havering a hard time . I asked about her bill, it was a little over 200$, I gave him 300$ and told him to wipe her bill off . I made him tear it up, and give her credit for the rest. Going back to Baton Rouge I was at peace with myself as I knew how life slips you in the crack. Always wondered about the look on her face when she found out the bill was paid.
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Post by trailboss on Mar 20, 2017 15:39:37 GMT -5
That....is a great story Brad, well done!
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Post by simnettpratt on Mar 23, 2017 1:14:30 GMT -5
You guys have had some awesome trips. Off in the wild with caches of steaks and beer, stepping over bombs on an English moor, Harleying to the Czech Republic looking for trouble, and po boy fishing on a Spud barge, whatever the hell that is, all sound awesome. Bradley wins with the $300 to the poor chick, though; guarantee there were some tears on that one.
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Post by sparks on Mar 23, 2017 6:56:49 GMT -5
I need to step up my vacation game.
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Post by simnettpratt on Mar 23, 2017 7:29:56 GMT -5
I had a great two week vacation once after summer camp. I'd just earned my canoeing badge (basically meant you could navigate an obstacle course only paddling on one side), so eight of us set off in four aluminum canoes. We went down the Guadalupe river, which was awesome because there were small rapids every fifty yards or so. You had to plan each one not to hit the rocks and capsize. We'd camp on the shore in the evening when we got tired.
Three of the rapids had names and folks had drowned; they were long and a bit intense. I was a sternsman, who steers the canoe, the bowsman is just for power. I learned one must tie down one's wallet and supplies, because when all four canoes get capsized on this one tricky rapid, you all lose your stuff. I bet there were a lot of wallets on the bottom there. We gave up for the day and camped. Fortunately, no one lost much money; there weren't any shops on the river and the fishies didn't take cash.
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Post by crapgame on Mar 23, 2017 7:45:16 GMT -5
The best "vacation" I ever had was a week long fishing trip into PA elk country with a group of my best friends. Dewayne and I used to go there every year for a few days in May but one year it turned into a huge event that was one of the best trips we ever had. We ended up with 11 or 12 people there and we had spent the week fishing for trout and turkey hunting and just having a great time! The elk that visited our campsite every night never caused us bother and we never had bear issues so that was a good thing. Every night we would sit around the fire smoking pipes and cigars while eating what we caught fishing or some of the delicacies each of us brought in case the fishing was bad or no one shot a turkey. The rangers that came by a few times were always friendly and complimented us for practicing outstanding fire safety and keeping a neat and tidy campsite! You can only imagine our campsite with all of the tents we had. We had sleeping tents,supply tents,one guy even rigged up a shower and we could take hot showers by heating up creek water in the cook pots once dinner was done! I wonder if I can get the wife and kids interested in taking a few days for this or would the want to stay in a hotel and consider "roughing it" when the pool is closed for cleaning! Have a great day everyone!
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Post by Lady Margaret on Mar 23, 2017 8:30:21 GMT -5
I need to step up my vacation game.
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Post by trailboss on May 15, 2017 9:44:00 GMT -5
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Post by isett2860 on Jun 5, 2017 16:12:23 GMT -5
I just returned from 8 days (May 24th-31st) on the Queen Mary 2 from Southampton England to NYC. Smoking was only allowed on the stern of deck 7. Cigarettes, pipes, cigars and ecigs/vaps. Cigar and pipes only in the Churchill Lounge. They sell cigars in the Churchill lounge, but no pipe tobacco is sold. They do have cigarettes for sale in the duty free shop. Smoking is not allowed anywhere else onboard. It was a fabulous trip.   
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Post by Darin on Jun 5, 2017 16:16:44 GMT -5
That's a really nice lounge and you're looking quite dapper in it ... Glad you had a good time! 
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Post by antb on Jun 6, 2017 1:37:10 GMT -5
Nice trip! Meet any other pipe smokers on board? Thanks for the pics.
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