Dec 30, 2017, 10:52 am
Last edit by: RatherBeOnATrain
Original reporting on the incident: Marietta Daily Journal - Suit: Jonesboro woman booted from Cumberland hotel after clash with swingers’ party (Dec 28, 2017)
ATL Northwest @Galleria: Guest arrested for being "non-swinger on a swinger's floor"
Dec 28, 2017, 2:11 pm
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ATL Northwest @Galleria: Guest arrested for being "non-swinger on a swinger's floor"
This incident seems to have happened at the Atlanta Marriott Northwest at Galleria:
The lawsuit is in PACER so the story appears to be legit. Also:
Link to the full story: Daily Mail - Georgia woman sues Marriott for $10million after she was arrested and kicked out of hotel for being on a floor reserved for a swingers' party (Updated: 15:04 EST, 28 December 2017)
The article also says that the Guest registered for the room under a 'SA' group code.
A woman in Georgia claims that she was kicked out of a Marriott hotel because she 'was a non-swinger on a swingers' floor', according to a lawsuit she filed against the hotel chain. [The Guest] claims in the lawsuit she filed last week in the U.S. District Court of Northern Georgia that she booked a room on the fifth floor from December 30, 2016 to January 1, 2017 at an Atlanta Marriott to attend a New Year's Eve party hosted by a local disc jockey.
[The Guest] then entered her room to shower and when she got out, she found two security guards inside staring at her as she stood naked, according to the lawsuit. She yelled at the guards while trying to cover her naked body before confronting them to see why they were inside her room.
According to the lawsuit, [a 'middle-aged white male' named 'Brent'] then confronted [the Guest] with one of the security guards saying that he wanted her removed from the room that she booked because she 'refused to participate in the group activities' related to the Swingers of Atlanta. The hotel security guard apparently agreed with Brent, despite the fact she informed him she was assigned the room by the hotel front desk clerk. [The Guest] then asked them to leave her room and shut the door.
While calling to speak with the front desk over the issue, two Cobb County Police Department officers and two hotel security guards entered her room along with Brent without probable cause. The officers, which included Cobb County Police Chief Michael Register, did not identify themselves prior to entry, and did not have an arrest warrant or search warrant authorizing their conduct, the lawsuit claims.
According to the lawsuit, [a 'middle-aged white male' named 'Brent'] then confronted [the Guest] with one of the security guards saying that he wanted her removed from the room that she booked because she 'refused to participate in the group activities' related to the Swingers of Atlanta. The hotel security guard apparently agreed with Brent, despite the fact she informed him she was assigned the room by the hotel front desk clerk. [The Guest] then asked them to leave her room and shut the door.
While calling to speak with the front desk over the issue, two Cobb County Police Department officers and two hotel security guards entered her room along with Brent without probable cause. The officers, which included Cobb County Police Chief Michael Register, did not identify themselves prior to entry, and did not have an arrest warrant or search warrant authorizing their conduct, the lawsuit claims.
The article also says that the Guest registered for the room under a 'SA' group code.
Dec 28, 2017, 2:59 pm
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Hmmm. "SA" is not listed in the Wiki for publicly available reservation codes. 
Dec 28, 2017, 4:47 pm
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One good reason not to use "unknown" discount codes or hotel packages.
Dec 28, 2017, 5:24 pm
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I wonder where the hotels draw the line on what groups they book. No moral judgement here as I am quite open-minded but I am just wondering.
In the mean time, Hilton: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hilt...er-disney.html and Disney....
In the mean time, Hilton: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hilt...er-disney.html and Disney....
Dec 28, 2017, 5:37 pm
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I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that Marriott/others' view of what happened will be slightly different.
Dec 28, 2017, 7:07 pm
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Dec 28, 2017, 7:09 pm
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Do you prefer to be on that limb when it is calm or when the wind is blowing? 
I understand your point dgreen12. However, the second paragraph of the article says the guest booked a room to "attend a New Year's Eve party hosted by a local disc jockey"..... so I did a little googling and, sure enough, there was a DJ-hosted party at the hotel that night:
Dec 29, 2017, 8:44 am
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could be horrible, but its a franchise right? so marriott will be investigating the manager/owner.
Dec 30, 2017, 10:51 am
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The Marietta Daily Journal has published a more informative article about the arrest:
Link to full article - Marietta Daily Journal - Suit: Jonesboro woman booted from Cumberland hotel after clash with swingers’ party (Dec 28, 2017)
Everyone celebrates New Year’s a little differently.
Last year on the fifth floor of the Cumberland Marriott, there was a clash of cultures when 57-year-old Loletha Hale Lewis unknowingly booked a room on the same floor as an Atlanta swingers club’s end-of-year celebration.
The evening ended in the Jonesboro woman’s arrest and last week Lewis filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia against Marriott International, Swinging Atlanta and Cobb County police, who cut her New Year’s plans short by booking her on obstruction charges.
She is requesting $20 million in damages, $10 million from the hotel chain and $10 million from the police department. Her suit names Officer Zachary Stannard, who arrested her that night, and Police Chief Mike Register, who did not yet work for the department.
Last year on the fifth floor of the Cumberland Marriott, there was a clash of cultures when 57-year-old Loletha Hale Lewis unknowingly booked a room on the same floor as an Atlanta swingers club’s end-of-year celebration.
The evening ended in the Jonesboro woman’s arrest and last week Lewis filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia against Marriott International, Swinging Atlanta and Cobb County police, who cut her New Year’s plans short by booking her on obstruction charges.
She is requesting $20 million in damages, $10 million from the hotel chain and $10 million from the police department. Her suit names Officer Zachary Stannard, who arrested her that night, and Police Chief Mike Register, who did not yet work for the department.