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Princess Smoking Policy
Where you can and cannot smoke on a Princess cruise in 2026, the cabin cleaning fee, casino rules, and how vaping is handled, verified against the official policy.
Quick answer
Princess bans smoking in staterooms and on balconies, and charges a $250 cleaning fee for violations. Smoking is allowed only in designated areas. The casino smoking rule is not published.
Smoking in cabins and on balconies
Stateroom
Not allowed
Balcony
Not allowed
Smoking is prohibited in staterooms and on balconies, and a violation incurs a $250 cleaning fee per occurrence; repeated violations can mean disembarkation without refund. E-cigarettes, vaporizers, and electronic nicotine devices are banned in the stateroom, including the balcony, and allowed only in designated smoking areas.
Where you can smoke
Indoor areas are non-smoking except designated sections, and outdoor smoking areas are clearly posted throughout the ship.
Smoking in the casino
Not published
Fine for smoking in your cabin
$250 cleaning fee
Princess charges $250 for smoking in a stateroom or on a balcony, and repeated violations can lead to removal from the ship.
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Caden Sorenson runs Travel Vient, an independent travel research site built on a verified database of airline baggage rules, airport connection times, cruise line policies, and eSIM plans. He built the verification pipeline behind it: each record is read from the company or government page that publishes it (connection times: OAG data via ExpertFlyer), stored with that source link and the sentence it came from, and re-checked on a schedule. He is a senior staff engineer with 15+ years building software, a Computer Science graduate of Utah State University, and based in Logan, Utah.
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Sources
Facts, costs, and travel details in this guide were verified against the following sources. See our research methodology for how we vet and update data.
- Princess: Pcl accessed 2026-10-02
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Cruise lines change smoking policies without notice. Confirm with the line before you sail.