skymama 37 #1 January 3, 2006 http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-swingers0306jan03,0,4396678,print.story?coll=orl-home-promo Swingers unnerve families at hotel Parents say young soccer players saw more than they bargained for. Terry O. Roen Sentinel Staff Writer January 3, 2006 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."She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man, because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #2 January 3, 2006 So, Andrea, you were at the hotel for which party?Remster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
crwpj 0 #3 January 3, 2006 a bit menstrual today? pulling is cool. keep it in the skin. options: it does a body good. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymama 37 #4 January 3, 2006 No, but I think darnknit is. She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man, because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheAnvil 0 #5 January 3, 2006 I think she was one of the ones dancing naked. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymama 37 #6 January 3, 2006 lol...my son would kill me. She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man, because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #7 January 3, 2006 Quote lol...my son would kill me. Can you imagine!: Quote 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, and I realized it was mom!" said Walker, a 10th-grader at Mauldin High School in Mauldin, S.C. Remster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheAnvil 0 #8 January 3, 2006 I dunno...you probably put him to bed early prior to going to the party... Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkydiveStMarys 0 #9 January 3, 2006 "It made me uncomfortable because I was there with my family." What she really meant was.... Though if my family HADN'T been with me, I would have been in 7th heaven!! WooHoo! BobbiA miracle is not defined by an event. A miracle is defined by gratitude. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymama 37 #10 January 3, 2006 LOL...I know! I bet those kids didn't see anything that they haven't already seen on MTV videos!She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man, because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
susanjumps 0 #11 January 3, 2006 Quote LOL...I know! I bet those kids didn't see anything that they haven't already seen on MTV videos! Certainly isn't any different from when I went to DragonCon in the 90's. And that is a COMIC BOOK convention. Years later I saw the band they had there one night on HBO's Real Sex. Shoot, I wish I could remember their name...Erleichda! "I just wasn't myself today," Gupta commented. "I wasn't any self today. I was an egoless particle of the universal no-soul." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydiver51 0 #12 January 3, 2006 Hummmm, make note to check out this Hotel for New Years Eve 2007. OUCH.......... Make new note, wife isn't a swinger!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zenister 0 #13 January 4, 2006 Quote "We thought we were coming to Orlando, not the Las Vegas Strip," obviously a tourist if he doenst expect that in Orlando... ignorant prudes shouldnt breed... ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lawrocket 3 #14 January 4, 2006 It was a great party. We all thought those girls were setups by the cops or by Dateline NBC so most of us stayed away from them. My wife is hotter than your wife. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bbarnhouse 0 #15 January 4, 2006 Well how about this... PIA last year at the Marks Hotel with a bunch of 13-15 year old cheerleaders. Cheerleaders...skydivers...what were they thinking!!? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
