UPDATE: “Daddy Ersin” Winokur, promoter for the DaddyLand Dallas Festival over the July 4th weekend, contacted Dallas Voice shortly before midnight Sunday, July 7, to say that “For now” the DaddyLand post on social media, reprinted in its entirety below, “will act as our statement. We are still continuing with the remaining events as well as trying to field the calls and messages.
Shortly after noon on Sunday, a former DaddyLand employee, Jason Martinez, told Dallas Voice that problems between the event producer and the host hotel started long before Saturday night, July 7, when the owner of the Crowne Plaza cancelled DaddyLand events scheduled at the hotel and demanded that everyone there for DaddyLand leave the hotel, including those who had booked rooms.
Martinez, who said he “worked on the DaddyLand event up until a month ago when I quit,” said he had been contacted by the sales manager at the hotel who “told me corporate was receiving several complaints regarding the boom boom room, or dark room, and that Ersin needed to remove all wording regarding that” from advertisements and other promotional materials.
However, Martinez said that the event promoter “disappeared for about three weeks, not returning any of my calls, and when I finally saw him at the pride event, he acted like nothing was wrong, and that there was no situation with corporate.”
Martinez shared with Dallas Voice screen caps of his messages to Winokur, including telling the promoter “Hey, your phone is not working,” and showing failed efforts to connect with him through audio calls via WhatsApp. Other screen caps show a string of messages from Martinez to Winokur saying the hotel’s sales manager had called again about promotional materials including the boom boom room, telling the promoter that “costume designers are on hold waiting for answers” and that DJs were “messaging asking questions.”
None of the screen caps show any replies from Winokur.
Martinez said he had “worked for all of [Winokur’s] events for six years,” but that he quit last month after the DaddyLand Pride event when Winokur accused him of stealing money. He shared with Dallas Voice a screenshot of a series of messages between him and Winokur regarding those allegations.
Dallas Voice has contacted management at Crowne Plaza Dallas Downtown for comment but has so far received no response.
We have also contacted the corporate offices of IHBG Hotels and Resorts.
ORIGINAL POST: Management at the Crowne Plaza hotel in downtown Dallas, host hotel for the DaddyLand Festival 2024 Dallas circuit party, had canceled all further DaddyLand events planned at the hotel and had notified participants who were guests at the Crowne Plaza that they must be out of the hotel by 6 p.m.
Organizers have since posted messages on social media noting that only the events scheduled for the hotel have been cancelled, while all other events being held at other venues will continue as scheduled.
The post reads:
“The host hotel has advised DaddyLand Festival — Dallas 2024 due to complaints by guests not part of the festival they would be canceling the remaining events. During negotiations to rectify the situation and offering to place extra security and make more accommodation to the guest staying in the hotel ownership became outwardly disrespectful to the team, its party guests and parts of our community. While we stand up for the many for the actions of the few the owner refused to listen to reason and made the decision to evict without notice everyone attending our events, We are committed to making this right for those affected.
“For now the remaining Daddyland Festival 2024 events will continue as scheduled with the exception of the after hours located at this years host hotel.
“Guest who purchased single event tickets for after hours will be refunded. Guest who purchased weekend passes which includes after hours events we are working on a solution to make up for the two remaining events that were canceled outside of our control.
“Please note many of the reasons being posted are untrue and as we continue the remaining events we appreciate the support of our community.”
The notice left for hotel guests staying at Crowne Plaza for the DaddyLand festival was printed on paper being the Crowne Plaza logo and read:
“TAKE A MOMENT …
“DADDYLAND GROUP PARTICIPANT
“We are sorry it didn’t work out … The OWNER OF THE HOTEL is requesting you LEAVE IMMEADIATELY.
“You will get a refund for Saturday, July 6, 2024 and Sunday, July 7, 2024 – Please move out BY 6PM.
“ALL PARTIES & EVENTS ARE CANCELLED
“SATURDAY 7/6, SUNDAY 7/7 & MONDAY 7/8.”
According to a press release on the website for IHG Hotels and Resorts, dated Sept. 11, 2009, and announcing the opening of Crowne Plaza Dallas Downtown as the fifth Crowne Plaza property in Dallas, “The Crowne Plaza Dallas Downtown is owned by Terry and Patty Tognazzini and managed by Tog Hotels Downtown Dallas LLC, under a license agreement with a company in the InterContinental Hotels Group.” That information may be outdated, but Dallas Voice has been unable to find more recent information online so far.
Dallas Voice has reached out by phone and by email to management at Crowne Plaza Dallas Downtown and to DaddyLand event producer Daddy Ersin by Facebook Messenger. We will update this post with more information if and when such information becomes available.
— Tammye Nash
Good — about time companies are starting to act on the intrusion of filth on the general public, Bye rainbow alphabet creeps.
not all gay people are mindless and disgusting
Major, get off your high horse. Just cause you couldn’t afford the weekend of events doesn’t mean you have to bash them. 😉
Pedophile says what?
The CP was well within its rights. Party goers at these events are there to party, not maintain any discretion. TBRU has suffered similarevictions and had to go to smaller venues. In short, piggies can’t play in the open because not everybody likes it.
Hotels don’t usually kick people out until *after* they’ve done something wrong, not before; this isn’t Minority Reports. I don’t understand why the people who had room reservations would be required to vacate their rooms. They’re paying guests.
TBRU has never been evicted mid event. The old host hotel on mockingbird changed owners. That owner owne canceked the next scheduled TBRU. And TBRU moved to the crown plaza on stepmoms. They moved to the Hyatt as they out grew the crown plaza.
What we supposed to do with the information regarding the ownership of the hotel? Are you implying the reader do something with that information?
If something happens to the ownership, I sure hope they remember to sue the Dallas voice for “inciting violence” against them.
Normal functioning human adults don’t like these bullshit, raucous conventions that are a thinly veiled excuse to engage in group sex.
This what happens when you have drug filled orgies aka circuit parties. I would have kicked them out as well. People literally falling out in the lobby, syringes every where. Imagine being someone visiting Dallas from the first time and you see someone falling out on GHB. Not a good look. Men acting like children when they should be adults.
Good riddance.
Notice the promoter never takes responsibility for their actions.
Reality? Let’s take a moment to ask you what your reality is? Let’s take a moment to ask you what your reality is 9 to 5 or part time? Lower class? Cigarette smoker? 2000 or less in year make and model of your vehicle? What parties have you gone to? You sure do have details of what you think a “circuit party” consists of? Can you afford to even go to a circuit party? Let me also guess, by your version of a circuit party, you’ve “been to one”. . . So let me guess you’re probably unattractive too and no one wanted to dance with you. . I got it… carry on Fairy lover.
So you are censoring comments now?
@Reality – is this what you do spend your time peddling comments? You clearly need to do something else with your time. Focus on being a better attractive person inside and out. You seem to be proving my point that you must work part-time job if you you got so much time on your hands to respond negatively about the days that denied your entrance! LmAo
I’m really curious to see what the hotel is going to have to say about this. Whatever incident may have happened, I don’t think it justifies asking a group of people who may have been the event to vacate the premises. Sounds like blatant homophobia to me. This is unacceptable.
Not all of us gay folks do drugs. In my gay world we get married and live clean lives.
I have quite a few corporate events at the CP downtown… I will take my business elsewhere!
So dumb it’s just plain homophobia I heard it was actually a sorority that complained to the hotel they had an event there too.Which honestly is on the hotel cause they should of scheduled things better.The sorority complaining though are such snowflakes. And to the homophobes saying good this is gross.Do you really honestly think straight people don’t do this stuff as well?So damm naive but when gays do it it’s gross whatever. Listen some people like sex some like relationships thats true in gay and straight communities get over it and be an adult about it.No one is forcing you to partake or even look
Being an event coordinator as well, the hotel may have had cause to cancelling events happening at their hotel. I don’t assume DaddyLand did anything wrong, but whatever happened, it caused the hotel to cancel those events. Do circuit parties incorporate drugs, sex, etc? Probably. Is that a reason to judge? No. But these types of events had been hosted before so there’s that. This comes down to business and professionalism. I’ll wait to hear more details before coming up with an opinion because unlike many people, I like basing my opinions on facts.