Soccer parents angry they were not told of swinger convention

[MrAndMrsFish]

ORLANDO, Fla. ? (AP) ? Some teenage soccer players and their parents saw more sights than they wanted when they stayed at a hotel where about 200 swingers were having a New Year's Party.

 

The families, some who traveled from as far away as South Carolina, said the sexually adventurous partygoers sashayed through the hotel atrium, sometimes flashing breasts and bare buttocks in front of the children. The parents described the dress 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 boy who plays on the Clearwater Chargers, a group of 13-and-under players from Florida.

 

The teams booked the $92-a-night rooms for Disney's Soccer Showcase, and said hotel management did not tell them about the swingers' party or try to keep the uninhibited adults away from their children.

 

Hotel managers did not immediately return a telephone message Tuesday.

 

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 he struggled to answer. "We would have liked to have been informed when we checked into the hotel so we could have made other arrangements.

 

"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 hired by the hotel for a New Year's Eve security detail. He said neither did anything to help.

 

Lt. John Mina, a watch commander for the Orlando police, said Hollis didn't witness anything illegal.

 

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.''

[Junior]

:lol

 

Too bad it wasn't abunch of teenage boys. They would have had a helluva time with that.

[Guest Fritz]

Damn, I wish I was there.

[Buckeye]

Damn, I wish I was there.

 

 

How old are you?

 

Besides, real swingers don't look good.