Swinger party unnerves soccer parents at Orlando hotel

Sun-sentinel.com ^ | January 3, 2006 | Terry O. Roen

[mlc9852]

ORLANDO -- 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.

[gondramB]

"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."

I would think that would be illegal...

I've read that ordinarily these groups reserve a closed off space.

[mlc9852]

I'm sure if they were paying enough, the hotel didn't care what they did. The families should have been warned.

[TCats]

Well, the kids have got to learn tolerance for all forms of alternative lifestyles and this helps supplement what they aren't taught in school. /sarc

[ncountylee]

The ACLU would screem about "freedom of speech."

[American Quilter]

I hope the money made by the Crowne Plaza hotel from the "swingers" (I'd describe them as pathetically-eager-for-attention adult adolescents) will compensate them for the future bookings they're not going to get.

[mlc9852]

I agree. Their decision to allow this may hurt them in the future.

[null and void]

And I hope it doesn't.

YMMV

[jla]

I hope it does.

[American Quilter]

And I hope it doesn't.

8-)

[mlc9852]

So you were there??? LOL

[proudofthesouth]

And I hope the soccer parents email all their friends/family and post their bad experience all over the internet.

[nmh]

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.

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"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."

Wonder if these soccer families will still vote for Demoncrats or LIBERALtarians. Dare they make a JUDGEMENT call on this?

I thought it was illegal to undress like this?

[MineralMan]

"And I hope the soccer parents email all their friends/family and post their bad experience all over the internet."

And here is one of those posts. This story will get wide dissemination on the web. It won't help the hotel.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

That sort of describes what is pictured in #10. Is that appropriate for FR? Just wondering.

[MineralMan]

"Parents who traveled from South Carolina and Clearwater to bring their 11- to 13-year-old daughters "

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All of whom said, in unison, "Ewwww! Gross!"

[SittinYonder]

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.

Sounds like a bad idea to me. The pool was probably in need of a good cleaning.

[eyespysomething]

Ewwww. I would NOT let my kids into that pool.

[SittinYonder]

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.

LOL.