Guardian: Stranded in the Bahamas: luxury Fyre festival turns to 'chaos'
Apr 28, 2017, 7:49 am
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Guardian: Stranded in the Bahamas: luxury Fyre festival turns to 'chaos'
Stranded in the Bahamas: luxury Fyre festival turns to 'chaos'
and this info...
Please see:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/...rns-into-chaos
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It was billed as an Instagram-worthy luxury festival in the Bahamas – but the supposedly glamorous Fyre festival seems to be anything but.
Tickets for the festival, which was co-organised by the rapper Ja Rule, cost up to $12,000. Festivalgoers were promised “a cultural moment created from a blend of music, art and food”.
Ticketholders have called Fyre festival a “complete disaster”, saying the tents were half-built and the luxury food also failed to meet with their expectations. Now, some are stranded in the Bahamas.
Tickets for the festival, which was co-organised by the rapper Ja Rule, cost up to $12,000. Festivalgoers were promised “a cultural moment created from a blend of music, art and food”.
Ticketholders have called Fyre festival a “complete disaster”, saying the tents were half-built and the luxury food also failed to meet with their expectations. Now, some are stranded in the Bahamas.
On Instagram, the festival’s organisers wrote: “Things got off to an unexpected start at day one of Fyre festival.”
They added all inbound flights to the Exumas had been cancelled “due to circumstances beyond [their] control”.
They added all inbound flights to the Exumas had been cancelled “due to circumstances beyond [their] control”.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/...rns-into-chaos
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Apr 28, 2017, 10:23 pm
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That's what you get for following endorsements by "influencers" on Instagram.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ds-in-disaster
“I was like, ‘I’ll be living luxurious.’ It was supposed to be good for, like, high-class youth. A higher-expectations festival,” he said.
In the meantime, [he] is trying to make the best of a bad situation. “We have no idea what’s going on,” he said. “We’re just sitting on the beach getting wasted.”
In the meantime, [he] is trying to make the best of a bad situation. “We have no idea what’s going on,” he said. “We’re just sitting on the beach getting wasted.”
Apr 28, 2017, 10:54 pm
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says theyre refunding. if so, not scam? hope they paid with credit card. what was cheapest ticket?
extremely strange
nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/fyre-festival-exumas-bahamas-disaster.html
not sure re stranded..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exuma_...tional_Airport
from one article
and yacht hire etc, especially for the actually wealthy attendees
extremely strange
nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/fyre-festival-exumas-bahamas-disaster.html
not sure re stranded..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exuma_...tional_Airport
from one article
Exuma is busy this weekend, with the national Family Islands regatta in Georgetown the biggest annnual event on the island normally attracting ten of thousands of visitors.
Apr 29, 2017, 2:17 pm
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Here are two examples which ticket price points had been reported in the press including:
Please see:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/...andwiches.html
However CNBC reports a more affordable alternative day pass ticket:
and the most expensive:
Please see:
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/28/fyre-...e-bahamas.html
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...sold for anyhere between $1,500 and $12,000 (though some reports have that number as high as $250,000 for a private villa stay). But accounts from the island itself suggest that the festival was immediately plagued by a total lack of organization, shoddy accommodations, and luggage mishaps, in addition to unconfirmed reports of violence, theft, and feral dogs.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/...andwiches.html
However CNBC reports a more affordable alternative day pass ticket:
Day passes started at $450.
Tickets cost up to $49,000 per person, according to the website, a price which included round-trip flights from Miami to the festival, staying on a VIP Island with performers, backstage access and entrances, and a dinner with an artist.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/28/fyre-...e-bahamas.html
Cheers & Safe Travels. ^