Anais Gutierrez
The anticipated Fyre Festival is the worst festival ever. The first weekend of the ultimate luxury festival was nothing more than a disaster, missing the mark by far.
The unfortunate attendees documented the apocalyptic development of Ja Rule’s big event. We bring you the whole thing.
The ultimate luxury festival.
When it comes to experiences, the Fyre Festival was set to be the ultimate luxury experience. The promo video was filled with high-profile influencers, such as Emily Ratajkowski and Bella Hadid living the one-in-a-lifetime-experience.
It was supposed to be held on the Exumas, in a land previously owned by Pablo Escobar -is there anything screams luxury like good old drug lord Pablo? Eating gourmet food, partying under the sun or on a yacht with la creme de la creme of rich kids. Luxury tents beating those of Coachella’s and hosting performers such as Blink-182, Major Lazer, Migos, and more.
Tickets promising the holy experience were between $1,000 and $250,000, and boy, they were sold. Co-creator Ja Rule promised madness, and he delivered it, only not the kind we hoped for.
The Fyre Festival was a total madness, not in a good way
Signs of Frye’s breakdown started to show once one of the headliners pulled out. Blink-182 announced via social media that they couldn’t deliver the quality of performances that always give fans.
The so promised “private island previously owned by Pablo Escobar,” was actually steps away from a popularly visited Sandals Resort. From that moment things got worse and worse as attendees shared via Twitter their experience filled with chaos and the complete lack of luxuries.
The #FyreFestival shows a rather apocalyptical scenario with luggage just dropped, meals consisting of sandwich and tents that look like everything but luxury tents.
So Fyre Fest is a complete disaster. Mass chaos. No organization. No one knows where to go. There are no villas, just a disaster tent city. pic.twitter.com/1lSWtnk7cA
— William N. Finley IV (@WNFIV) April 27, 2017
This is how Fyre took care of the attendee’s luggage:
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
Take a look at the luxury tents
Please, do notice that these are disaster relief tents.
@fyrefestival why do your accommodations look like we're about to trek a mountain… pic.twitter.com/vmRn7vZCSz
— Olivia Bannock (@OliviaIvey) April 17, 2017
Here’s what the gourmet food looked like
Nothing says gourmet like a sandwich beautifully accompanied by a tomato salad.
what do you think of this meal that was apparently served at #fyrefestival that ppl paid +12k for @GordonRamsay pic.twitter.com/a0BQVAHmvn
— marisa scully (@bussacivga) April 28, 2017
The aftermath
On Friday, the Festival that began on Thursday, released a statement in response to the calamity, urging guests on the islands not to arrange travel home as the Festival is doing it.
Even the Bahamian government, who had nothing to do with the festival, also issued an apology and tried to help stranded guests.
Bahamas official statement on Fyre Festival #FyreFestival pic.twitter.com/NQo8AmXZlQ
— The Bahamas (@VisitTheBahamas) April 28, 2017
Ja Rule is allegedly heartbroken. He deleted every post related to the Fyre, tho. All of this while the apocalyptical disaster took place and even the Government tried to help in,
— Ja Rule (@Ruleyork) April 28, 2017
Source: Vanity Fair
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