Why would I take something less than what is owed. Number one it takes allot to get a discount at a hotel in Hawaii. We have a thing here called a Kama'aina discount which is given to people who live in Hawaii. It is really good at hotels. Most of the time we can get 50% off the room rate. The Kahala Mandarin is one of the most exclusive hotels in Hawaii. The President stays there as does many many celebrities. My friend was one of the managers there. So Sean asks me to get him a discount there cause it is one of hsi favorites hotels. So I make a call and get it done. End of story....I thought.
I get a phone call from my friend later that night. Apparently my friend got off at 4pm and hung around for another 2 hours waiting for Sean whose plane landed around 3pm or so don't remember. Anyway he has to leave to pick his kids up from some swim meet or something like that around 6pm or so. He tells me that Sean didn't show yet. I said okay well whatever. The next day he tells me he had a note in his box that some guy was making a scene in the lobby last night about having a room reserved but he told the front desk people he didn't have his ID. Which right there is bullshit since you can't fly without ID. I have no idea why he wouldn't show his ID. Anyway what happend was he got put into another room which was slightly higher in price because that was all that was left. He lost his room for being several hours late. Well that upgrade cost money. We told him that and everything was supposed to be okay. My friend who is the nicest guy in the world felt kind of bad still because he gave Sean one room rate but it ended up being a little more than he said. I told him hey he was late, he did not even call you to tell you he was late, he made a fool out of himself in the lobby and he tells them he doesn't have any ID. f**k him charge him for the room upgrade. Even though we told Sean about the upgrade and he said no problem, my friend felt so bad that he decided to cover the extra charges himself. He told me this after Sean left cause if he told me while Sean was still there I would have made Sean pay. He showed me the cost and it was almost $600. I got really pissed at him for this expeciually when Sean didn't have the decency to even call him. He only met him once to even thank him for the room. So I ended up paying him back cause I felt bad that he had to pay for guy who took advantage of him and didn't have the balls to even say bye when he left. So that is the story. It's not's even the money it's the principle of the thing. He uses people all the time and never has the decency to even thank them or whatever. He did the same thing to my partner on Maui. He thinks his shit don't stink and he is above everyone. Sure he can turnon the nice when he wants, but it is all fake. It how a person handles himself when the cameras are off that really tells the story.
God, where to begin...
Obviously, I love peace and despise drama. I love it when people work as a team and when a plan comes together. Unfortunately, the nature of people is that, well, they're people. People can be great or people can suck, period.
That being said, I don't know what either of you gets out of carrying on this way. It's not like you're 25-year-old kids with nothing better to do and as has been stated by many of the board's viewers, you're both bigger than this. You're both bodybuilding promoters and with that being the case, we the fans have a right to expect a certain level of decorum from you. It doesn't mean you're obligated to give us what we want - I'm not saying that - but we do have a right to expect it.
Keith - I don't know whether the disputed amount was $600 or $4000 or something in between, but even if it's the higher amount, I don't see the payoff you get from constantly tearing down the efforts of others. There's NOTHING in Shawn's presentation that would indicate he hasn't grown as a person since this incident between the two of you.
I won't profess to know all the details, but c'mon now, travel can be delayed for any number of reasons. And if he was a 'few hours' late and 'didn't call', did you consider the fact he may have been *in the air* at the time he was supposed to have checked in? The original room should've been guaranteed and should've been ready and waiting when he arrived,
regardless of who made the reservation and regardless of the time of arrival. If your friend's hotel gave away Shawn's room and decided to upgrade him, then that's on them. It's my opinion that - since the hotel gave away Shawn's original room - he should NOT be responsible for the difference in price. And if you invited Shawn there, then you
should've comped his room, meaning that you would pay the discounted base rate for the room and the hotel would cover the cost of the upgrade.
Does anyone else here agree with that assessment?