ORLANDO, Fla. -- A hotel in Orange County, Fla., whose bar has been converted into a so-called "swingers" club, has been the scene of "unsavory activity" that some hotel patrons and unit owners are not happy with, according to Local 6 News.

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Images from investigation into alleged "unsavory activity" outside Central Fla. 'swingers' club

Local 6 News reported that people pay up to $40 each Saturday night to get into the door at Club Tastebuds at the Heritage Hotel on South Orange Blossom Trail and Sand Lake Road for something called a "lifestyle" party.

For some attending the "lifestyle" party, "drinks flow, body parts get exposed and couple, triples or more hook up for a private, consensual night of adult activity," Local 6 News' Tony Pipitone reported.

For the impatient, the club advertises $33 rooms at the Heritage Hotel. However, some people can't wait that long, according to the report.

"Whatever they do in this room, I don't care, but I don't like people walking around with their breasts hanging out in the lobby," Heritage Hotel unit owner Nancy Lee said. "I don't like people having sex in their cars because they're too damn cheap to get a hotel room. To me, it's called the Heritage whorehouse -- that's what it seems like to me."

On just one night last month -- in areas visible to the public -- Local 6 News filmed a Tastebuds patron being spanked by one man while being held by another, two patrons urinating in the parking lot and a couple apparently having sex in public.

"Is people having sex in public against the law?" Pipitone asked.

"Yeah, that's against the law," Orange County Sheriff's Office Cmdr. Bernie Presha said.

State alcohol agents, who twice went into the club, said they found only a little more nudity than you might see at a Super Bowl halftime show, Pipitone said.

"Janet Jackson showed more than allowed of dancers in Orange County's licensed adult establishments but less than what goes on in Club Tastebuds," Pipitone said.

"Agents saw Tastebuds patrons kissing the exposed breasts of women inside the club -- that would be illegal in Orange County's licensed adult clubs," Pipitone said.

But Club Tastebuds' lawyer says it's not an adult entertainment establishment because its patrons are not hired dancers who expose themselves. And, since everyone let into the club agrees not be offended by nudity or sexual activity, a lawyer says undercover agents would have no cause to arrest anyone inside for indecent behavior.

If it were an adult entertainment establishment, the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation could charge someone with running it without a license. And MBI accompanied the state agents into the club twice last month.

Pipitone reported that it appears that Club Tastebuds is abiding by the law. MBI won't comment on ongoing investigations and it won't comment on Tastebuds.

However, the MBI director told us last year why his vice agents go after adult businesses.

"We have a world-class reputation as a family-oriented, tourist-oriented destination, and these guys do a great job of doing that," MBI Director Bill Lutz said.

The area's reputation is now damaged for the Canadien family, whose 9-year-old was trying to sleep at the Heritage Hotel last month when Local 6 News filmed people being spanked, urinating and more, Pipitone reported.

After Local 6 News told authorities and others about what was recorded around Club Tastebuds, management beefed up security at the hotel, especially in the parking lot, Local 6 News reported.

And the last two times undercover agents were there, they reported seeing nothing illegal in the parking lot or in the club, for that matter. So, the state will take no action against the club or its liquor license.

The state says MBI is still investigating.

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