The Santa Monica Mirror will publish a three-part investigation starting early February looking into the issue of Palihouse Santa Monica after one neighbor posted a video earlier this month relating to ongoing noise complaints at the property at the intersection of 3rd Street and Washington.
This time it wasn’t hotel guests arriving early morning trundling their rolling luggage bags along the cobble stone path that leads to the foyer. And it wasn’t the waves of hotel guests stumbling back to the hotel intoxicated acting too loud after a night on the town.
Neighbor Laura Wilson said her newest pet peeve with Palihouse Santa Monica: loud sex screams coming from a hotel room less than 40 feet from her bedroom window (see video below posted on The Mirror’s sister site Westside Today).
Wilson filmed this video earlier this month on Jan. 7, sarcastically writing “One of the advantages of having a hotel in our residential neighborhood — 12:14 am wake up calls of people having sex forgetting where they are.”
The latest sex disturbances are now part of a long list of reasons why residents want the City of Santa Monica to shut down the boutique hotel that’s been operating since mid-2013.
The Mirror acknowledges that people having sex in a hotel room is not illegal, but rather is looking into wider issues such a commercial 24/7 business and what it brings to a residential location – not only noise, but the affects on parking on local streets for example.
Stay tuned for more developments.
