| January 5th, 2006 12:47 PM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
From Orlando Sentinel
Swingers unnerve families at hotel
Parents say young soccer players saw more than they bargained for.
Terry O. Roen
Sentinel Staff Writer
Soccer families and swingers do not mix.
Especially when the parents of adolescent soccer players checked their daughters into a hotel that was hosting a New Year's Eve party for more than 200 self-described swingers, who had reserved a downstairs ballroom along with rooms on the ninth floor.
Parents who traveled from South Carolina and Clearwater to bring their 11- to 13-year-old daughters to a five-day soccer tournament said they were shocked by the parade of sexually adventurous partygoers who sashayed through the glass-enclosed atrium, sometimes flashing breasts and bare buttocks in front of their children.
They described the dress of some of the swingers at the Crowne Plaza Hotel-Airport in Orlando as "raunchy, despicable and worse than prostitutes."
"We thought we were coming to Orlando, not the Las Vegas Strip," said Mark Gilbert, the father of a 13-year-old who plays on the Clearwater Chargers, a group of 13-and-under players.
The teams booked the $92-a-night rooms for Disney's Soccer Showcase, sponsored by Disney Wide World of Sports, through the Internet from Anthony Travel. They said hotel management did not tell them about the swingers' party or try to keep the uninhibited adults away from their children.
Hotel managers would not comment Sunday or Monday.
However, several hotel employees, who spoke on the condition they not be identified, said about 200 swingers attended the New Year's Eve party Saturday night -- about half the number that attended a similar event a year earlier.
One employee said the party was advertised on a swinger Web site, and participants -- some of whom engage in partner-swapping and voyeurism -- came from across the United States.
All of the swingers had checked out of the hotel by late Sunday and could not be reached for comment.
"We're not prudes by any means," said Rob Young of Greenville, S.C., who said his two daughters, Leah, 13 and Lauren, 11, were asking questions that were difficult to answer. "We would have liked to have been informed when we checked into the hotel so we could have made other arrangements."
Young said a hotel manager at one point told the children from Carolina Elite Soccer Academy to move out of the lobby and into the swimming-pool area.
"The kids could see through the glass atrium into the ballroom where naked people were dancing," Young said. "There were exposed breasts, thongs and see-through dresses on women who were not wearing any underwear."
Young said he complained to hotel management and to John Hollis, an off-duty Orlando police officer, asking if the swingers could be kept out of the hallways and lobby. He said neither the officer nor the hotel manager acted on his complaints.
Hollis was hired by the hotel for a New Year's Eve security detail and did not witness any violations of the law, Lt. John Mina, a watch commander for the Orlando Police Department, said Sunday night.
Officials at Anthony Travel could not be reached for comment late Sunday or Monday.
Walker Downs, 15, said he was walking through the lobby about 8 p.m. Saturday with his sister, Molly, 13, and two of her friends, when he saw something he will never forget.
"Some lady pulled down her skirt to show a black thong with diamonds," said Walker, a 10th-grader at Mauldin High School in Mauldin, S.C.
"It made me uncomfortable because I was there with my family."
Walker's mother, Julie Downs, a 43-year-old registered nurse, said her children asked why they were restricted to their rooms and couldn't party on New Year's Eve.
Paul Camporini brought his wife, seventh-grade daughter and eighth-grade son from Safety Harbor and said he had to "delicately explain to my Catholic school children that swingers change partners during the evening."
Camporini, 49, said his son initially did not want to travel to watch his sister play soccer but "thought it [the swingers' party] was downright hilarious."
"My biggest gripe is that the hotel had two distinctly different groups under the same roof," he said. "A soccer team and middle-aged swingers should not have been booked together. Even Disney tells guests when they book during Gay Days."
Gary Taylor of the Sentinel staff contributed to this report. Terry O. Roen can be reached at [email protected] or 386-851-7911.
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| January 5th, 2006 02:35 PM |
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| gimmekeef |
Yeah..bet the boys were traumatized so badly...they had to go let off "some steam"....lol |
| January 5th, 2006 08:39 PM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
quote:
Ten Thousand Motels wrote:
They described the dress of some of the swingers at the Crowne Plaza Hotel-Airport in Orlando as "raunchy, despicable and worse than prostitutes."
"The kids could see through the glass atrium into the ballroom where naked people were dancing," Young said. "There were exposed breasts, thongs and see-through dresses on women who were not wearing any underwear."
Geez. Clue me in. Is this the sort of thing that goes on at these Stones summits?
Just askin'.  |
| January 5th, 2006 08:41 PM |
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| M.O.W.A.T. |
Well, now we know why it's called The Magic Kingdom! |
| January 5th, 2006 09:20 PM |
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| pdog |
quote:
Ten Thousand Motels wrote:
Geez. Clue me in. Is this the sort of thing that goes on at these Stones summits?
Just askin'.
Don't ask, don't tell! |
| January 5th, 2006 11:18 PM |
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| Maxmeister |
quote:
Ten Thousand Motels wrote:
Geez. Clue me in. Is this the sort of thing that goes on at these Stones summits?
Just askin'.
What happens at the summits stays at the summits. The Vegas Convention Bureau ripped off our theme.
Rick
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| January 6th, 2006 05:49 AM |
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| Jumping Jack |
Where is our counseler from Florida? Justice must be served and the European leg must be funded!!! |
| January 6th, 2006 06:13 AM |
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| Jumacfly |
I love that kind of Story, fuc**in hilarious, ROTFLMAO!!
You live in a Unique country guys!!  |
| January 6th, 2006 01:19 PM |
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| Jumping Jack |
This takes "greeting" to the next level, LOL! |
| January 7th, 2006 02:16 PM |
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| PeerQueer |
I went to a couple similar events back in my 20s - Hollywood theme. I found most the people to be rather unnatractive -- . Leftovers from the free-love 60's schtick who hadn't moved on from their days of experimentation. I still remember a gentleman nearing 60 with balls and cock that hung down to his knees...(No, he was not a member of the Stones)That image will haunt me for the remainder of my days - - or at least until my own like appendages will do the same...then of course, it will be perfectly acceptable!
If you want top drawer sex club environments, you must look outside America... |
| January 7th, 2006 04:42 PM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
quote:
PeerQueer wrote:
I still remember a gentleman nearing 60 with balls and cock that hung down to his knees...(No, he was not a member of the Stones)That image will haunt me for the remainder of my days - -
Are you sure he was a "gentleman"??? |
| January 7th, 2006 06:46 PM |
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| PeerQueer |
quote:
Ten Thousand Motels wrote:
Are you sure he was a "gentleman"???
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Well, he did say "pardon me" as he walked by - though that might have been out of deference for his abnormally long-hanging cock n balls... |
| January 7th, 2006 08:03 PM |
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| Paranoid_Android |
Did they mention the website or how we can get our ROCKS OFF next year?!? |
| January 8th, 2006 03:50 PM |
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| Paranoid_Android |
This actually reminds me of one nite in Baltimore...we were at a Marriott hosting the east coast Jr High school Girls Volleyball tourney...and everyone else was in town for the Alabama Thunderpussy Show...by everyone else...I mean me and the 7 other folks I was with...
We took every opportunity to say "Thunderpussy" to the mother's, daughters, and any other 13 yr olds we could find.
In the crowded elevators..."I can't wait for Alabama Thunderpussy tonite!!"
"Oh...are you girls in town for the Thunderpussy show?"
(To the moms) 'are you into Thunderpussy?"
" Are gonna check out Thunderpussy tonite?"
ETC ETC ETC ETC...did i mention the acid???
TRUE STORY!!! |
| January 8th, 2006 03:54 PM |
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| MrPleasant |
Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play? |
