HotelChatter

One Surf Lodge owner, Jamie Mulholland, calls the issues "minor growing pains," but if the Times' lede is any indication of Surf Lodge's clientele, it's no wonder Montauk locals can't stand the place:

Lauren Morris's gold lamé high heels kept getting stuck between the planks of the patio deck.

A male friend who shares her rental house in Southampton had warned her on a recent Saturday night to wear flats to Surf Lodge ... But she was not the type of woman to have packed party shoes without heels.

Montauk is putting up a good fight, but we wonder whether it's a battle worth fighting for two reasons:

First, you can't fight hoteliers who are determined to be the hot spot. Second, if business continues as it has (need we remind you of bouts of food poisoning and unanswered reservations lines?), perhaps the Surf Lodge will simply self-combust.