Not only will your kids pick up cigarette butts while visiting City of Naples Beaches, but now they can step on broken beer bottles, too.

Come on kids, let's go to the beach to see the drunks. Like there are not enough underage drinkers at the pier right now.

Then there's those nifty plastic ringy dingies from the six packs of canned beers, that birds/fish/wildlife can get trapped and killed in.

Then there's champagne glasses that will be dropped and broken in parking lots.

At least there's more DUI revenue for the City of Naples Police.

I thought there was an open container law in Florida, too?

This advisory board needs to sober up with it's decisions.

Are the "scantily clad" women going to be dancing down there?

Sushi Thai is renting a space on Eighth Street South to make your dreams come true napleska7.

The dancers will be wearing nothing to add to the drunken ambiance.

Need more money in collier county's budget in the form of DUI's

Ok, ok. If you wana come with me, I'll buy the dog biscuits.

People have been bringing alcohol to the concerts at Vineyards park for years. (Sneaking it in of course.) I have no problem at all with selling alcohol at these functions, as long as there are standards that are enforced regarding selling to intoxicated folks.

no no no no no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It always starts this way.
First alcohol
Then hugging..
Which leads to dancing..

It's all the devils work!!!!

Next we lose our designation as prudes puritans.
Unless, of course, your sophisticated, then all rules don't apply!!!
;-)

beetle, glass is prohibited at all beaches...sorry.
if you know there is under age drinking at the pier and you don't do anything about it, you are a contributor.
not everyone who drinks a couple of beers are drunks...harsh stereotype.
Have you ever had a beer/mixed drink/champagne/wine?

I agree with you Midwesterner.

Reeeeeeeeeeaaallly I do.

Have you noticed the annual Country Music jokefest that tore up the grass and many parts of the kid's soccer fields at Vineyards Park is now located? And where it should ALWAYS REMAIN.

The fairgrounds. Take yer beer, yer cigerettes, and yer county yeehaw lovin twangy music out there.

Seeeeeee Ya...drunks.

Bye bye!

Sneak around out at the fairgrounds.....hope you get busted by the empty CCSO car that sits in the middle of Immokalee Road median on the way back.

What a joke.

This advisory board has been drinkin.

Wow, beetle, any relation to Carry Nation?

I don't pay taxes to provide a scenic location for private parties with alcohol. The open container law exists for a reason - not to make exceptions for "special" situations. Please no alcohol in our public spaces. Naples is not Cancun or Ibiza. I really think we have more tourist dollars to gain by staying "family friendly". Seriously.

PLEASE people..the year is 2008..get over it! Who cares if they allow alcohol at special events..maybe it will lighten & brighten this city up a bit..besides, this place is becoming more like a retirement home than paradise..isn't their more important things so worry about?

Can I do a beer bong in my speedo?

beetlejuice, we are not in Kansas, and this is not church. Grown adults should be allowed to have an adult beverage if they so choose. Besides, if we all had a stick up our backsides like you, life would be no fun. For the record, based upon your quick stereotypes, I would guess you had a parent who was a drinker...
BTW, I have never been to the honky tonk concert I previously referred to at Vinyards...which is now at the Fairgrounds. Employees who work for me attend it every year. Frankly, I could care less where it is held and what goes on there.