A former beauty queen was forced to barricade the door while sleeping in a resort room in the Dominican Republic during a nightmarish trip.
Whitney Sharp, 30, was staying at the Majestic Mirage in Punta Cana with about 90 other guests for a wedding party when she and her girlfriends began experiencing thefts and break-ins, she claimed in a TikTok video. .
‘run! ! ! ! I felt like I was in a scary movie,” she wrote on TripAdvisor.
“I was there for a wedding and I think we did our best to make sure our friends who were getting married had a really great time,” she said in a TikTok video.
“So we were obviously trying not to make a big deal about what was actually going on…but it was a nightmare vacation. It was very dangerous.
“I would barricade the door before going to bed at night. I would sometimes take off the belt of my bathrobe and tie it to the door to use as a lock.”
The former Miss Massachusetts 2016 placed a chair and table in front of the door to prevent anyone from entering the room after others, including the bride’s grandmother, broke into her room while they were sleeping. He shared a photo of the barricaded door he was holding.
Ms. Sharp also claimed that a $4,000 Van Cleef necklace was stolen from her luggage, but she was not so obsessed with the missing jewelry that her ex-boyfriend bought the item for her.
Whitney Sharp, 30, was staying at the Majestic Mirage in Punta Cana with about 90 guests for a wedding party when she and her friends began experiencing thefts and break-ins, she said in a TikTok video. insisted.
The former Miss Massachusetts of 2016 said she felt like she was in a “scary movie” and once “took the belt from my bathrobe and tied it to the door to use as a lock.”
Mr Sharp shared a photo of a barricaded door where he placed a chair and table in front of the door to prevent anyone from entering the room after it was broken into while others, including the bride’s grandmother, were sleeping. .
In a lengthy TripAdvisor review that first appeared on the site after Sharpe complained in a TikTok video, she claimed the resort was “beyond dangerous.”
“Most of us have had something stolen,” she wrote. “The bride’s grandmother had her room broken into while she was sleeping and even her CPAP machine, which helps her breathe, was stolen. A friend of mine in the room next door had her laptop stolen.
“For this reason, I decided to put a ‘do not disturb’ sign in my room. ”
Despite being careful, her necklace was still stolen. She also said resort staff were “taking wallets and cell phones out of bags” during reception after guests left them on the table, and that there were charges on the bill that she didn’t pay. He also claimed that there was.
“They tried to show me the receipt that I thought was signed, but it wasn’t my handwriting,” she wrote on TripAdvisor.
She also claimed that “a taxi driver was involved” when she fled the hotel after checking out, and that he forced her to pay hundreds of dollars to be dropped off at the airport.
Ms Sharpe also said she experienced catcalls from “almost every worker on site” and that, as a single woman, she felt “constant stares and men were aggressive”.
Her nightmare didn’t end there, she was given the wrong room because the food was “inedible” and was kept there for 90 minutes while another food was being prepared that smelled of “moldy mold”. I was forced to sit in the waiting room. They were forced to leave staff unattended during the wedding because “water overflowed from the recessed lights.”
Sharpe also claimed that a $4,000 Van Cleef necklace (pictured) was stolen from her luggage, but she was so obsessed with the missing jewelry that her ex-boyfriend bought the item for her. It wasn’t
She believes her expensive necklace was stolen while she was attending a wedding and she had to allow staff to enter the room unattended to fix a water leak issue. She also claimed that the bride’s grandmother had her CPAP machine stolen by staff.
In a lengthy TripAdvisor review that first appeared on the site after Sharpe complained in a TikTok video, she claimed the resort was “beyond dangerous.” She wrote: “Run!!!” I felt like I was in a scary movie.”
She also said resort staff “removed wallets and cell phones from bags” during reception after guests left them on the table, and that her bill had charges she didn’t pay. (Photo: Majestic Mirage)
“I think it was when Van Cleef’s necklace was stolen. That was the only time I had to allow people into my room and of course it was during a wedding so I couldn’t be with them. I couldn’t,” she wrote.
She ended her review with a final complaint: “The bedding was itchy and thin.”
The former beauty queen turned corporate salesperson could have complained more, but said, “I could go on but there’s a character limit.”
DailyMail.com has reached out to Sharpe and Majestic Mirage for comment.
Sharp is not alone in claiming thefts have occurred at the resort, with nearly 60 members of the “Victims of the Majestic Mirage” Punta Cana theft online group.
A number of people shared similar statements to Mr Sharp, claiming that cash was stolen from a safe in their room and that their bags were searched by staff after they claimed the theft.
After being asked what she stole, Marta Belyakova wrote “money” in the group. “Every penny I had, to be exact.”
