Special as in amusements? There's always the Beach Boardwalk. Some nice restaurants, lotsa nature/outdoors activities in the mountains, some fun pubs and bars. No real clubs or the like. Downtown's fun to walk down for a little bit, eat, catch a movie, etc. Since it's the weekend, there's prolly even a train running from the Boardwalk to the mountains. Go play on a choo-choo. Y'know, like you don't have those in Sac with the best train museum I've ever been to in Old Town there.
We're still meeting at Frederick Street Park currently. There's a bunch of hotels on Ocean Street, which is what Highway 17 dead-ends on, as well as a buncha hotels by the Boardwalk. Can't attest to quality of said hotels, really. I'd recommend doing a hotel.com or such search and check the user ratings. As a rule, though, I think some of the better hotels are gonna be on Ocean Street. The ones by the Boardwalk generally appear smaller and less-well maintained. Regardless, it's a quick drive to the park from Ocean Street or the Boardwalk.
And they're making you drive back for the cellphone? Tell the asses to mail or FedEx it to you. That's lame!