Fyre Festival was advertised as a luxury music festival on a private island in the Bahamas. But promises of a private chartered flight to the island, gourmet meals, private glamping tents, yacht cruises, gourmet catering, and an all-star concert performance line-up "quickly turned into a terrifying B-movie, with flocks of Instagram models forced to seek shelter in an airport after arriving to discover a lack of food, violent locals, appalling accommodation and feral dogs roaming the grounds," reports The Telegraph.
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As a result, social media has exploded overnight with tales of Instagram-filtered terror and disappointment, with beautiful festival-goers arriving on the island to discover half-built tents, their luggage being thrown out of the back of a truck, muggers and thieves laying in wait to steal wallets from trust fund kids, unhelpful staff, and "gourmet cuisine" that turned out to be nothing but ham and cheese sandwiches.
From iBankCoin:
The “chartered flight from Miami” turned out to be severely delayed coach seats, and upon arrival shocked concert-goers were met with partially constructed USAID disaster relief tents.
Heres a drive by tour of the tents:
Early report is that many of the tents aren't assembled. Here's their tropical private island owned by Escobar! #FyreFestival pic.twitter.com/TNzBDbNAUJ
— FyreFestivalFraud (@FyreFraud) April 27, 2017
Angry attendees have flocked to social media to express their disappointment:
The $12K Music Festival Promoted by Supermodels Is Already a Mess: #Fyre_Festival, promoted by Kendall… https://t.co/QcVCK3WeFr #nyc #royer pic.twitter.com/OVXQCpRhQ1
— Kevin Royer (@isellbrooklyn) April 26, 2017
The luxury festival tents are left over disaster relief shelters from @USAID Fyre Festival scammed us! https://t.co/kW4olVKgzY #fyrefestival pic.twitter.com/8QYkQ3jIPR
— FyreFestivalFraud (@FyreFraud) April 25, 2017
More deliberate lies by #fyrefestival. Fyre Festival makes it appear to be its own island…marketing says private island…it isn't! Scam. pic.twitter.com/E4Gz8o3X0z
— FyreFestivalFraud (@FyreFraud) April 20, 2017
This is how Fyre Fest handles luggage. Just drop it out of a shipping container. At night. With no lights. #fyrefestival pic.twitter.com/X5CdZRyJWo
— William N. Finley IV (@WNFIV) April 28, 2017
The "gourmet cuisine" this weekend was included in the ticket cost. We are being fed salads and ham and cheese sandwiches out of this tent pic.twitter.com/MRv7U0RiyM
— dylan (@DylanACOP) April 28, 2017
When I showed Carla these photos, she said "Why did the promoter even bother to put *anything* there?"
Sad & Snoozy says he found an event planners notes sitting on the ground:
The Notebook: Fyre Festival edition. pic.twitter.com/gjUvDvUKhW
— William N. Finley IV (@WNFIV) April 28, 2017
So, Jonestown with worse logistics, basically.
Fyre Festival's website has gone offline, save for a cryptic, unhelpful, unapologetic message:
Imagine being stranded and reading that.
