Crowne Plaza booking soccer kids & swingers convention at same time.

[Shagley]

Did anyone else see this story on the news? Apparently over the New Year weekend, the Crowne Plaza in Orlando booked a swingers convention, and at the same time also booked quite a few groups of soccer kids (ages 10 - 14 or so). I guess the swingers were supposed to be in the ballroom, but they were overflowing into the lobby where they were exposing themselves to each other and being generally obscene in the public areas where the soccer kids were. The parents gathered the kids and moved them all to the pool area, but there were large windows to the ballroom overlooking the pool, so everything going on in the ballroom could be seen from the pool. It sounded like all the Manager would do is tell the parents to keep the kids away from that area. Needless to say, the parents were IRATE and went to the news with their story.

 

[Local_Girl]

Shagley,

I also saw this story a few days ago, and was appalled. DH and I would have been as irate as those parents were (especially since we also have kids that age). Didn't the story say that neither the management or the local police would do anything about it? IMHO, what the swingers do is up to them (not that I personally condone it ), as long as they keep it in a private area. But apparently the ballroom and other public areas of the hotel were not private enough. We certainly won't be considering the Crowne Plaza for a future visit to Orlando...

 

[becky7953]

Our news covered it with a headline "Dirty Disney".... I thought it was totally unfair that Disney's name got dragged in. I feel it is the total responsibility of the hotel Crowne Plaza (by the airport). I would have been upset too.

 

[mommyintn]

Many moons ago in my early 20's I worked a really upscale family friendly hotel in the Palm Springs, Ca area and our sales dept. booked a swingers group that misrepresented itself as a "singles" convention. By the time they were there it was figured out when the men were wearing thongs at the pool (ok even Brad Pitt would have a hard time pulling this off!), and checking in 3 to a room with a King Size bed. Needless to say there were many complaints but the sales dept had to honor the contract with them and for their finale party in the ballroom they posted security guards outside to make sure innocent bystanders and families wouldn't be exposed to what was going on. That could've been what happened at the Crowne Plaza (I've not heard the story), but I know we were comping a lot of rooms or lowering rates to not lose our customers.

 

[Tigger_Magic]

I saw this on the O'Reilly Factor last night; he interviewed a father of 2 of the soccer team players. According to him, the hotel was asked to open some conference rooms to move the group to a location that wouldn't expose them to children (apparently the ballroom they were in had windows that overlooked the pool) and the hotel refused. The only mention of Disney on O'Reilly was a brief blurb that the soccer teams were playing at a tournament at Disney, but there was no muckraking of Disney's name or implication Disney was involved with this incident.

I think the Crowne Plaza has a lot of explaining to do.

 

[isla bonita]

very interesting, just another reason to go to orlando. LOL

 

[kilee]

I don't think any news story should of put Disney's name in a headline-- but that's how they get people to read it. I did see this on the news last night- and they did say the Corp. offices for the Crowne Plaza were looking into it along w/ the actions of the manager.