Should I feel bad for a bunch of rich people paying big money to party on a private island that boasting about having the best around only to find out they’ve been ripped off by false advertising – PB/TK
Luxury Fyre Festival With $12,000 Tickets Postponed After Reports of Chaos, Theft, Ham Sandwiches – By Marissa Martinelli April 28 2017
The supposedly luxurious Fyre Festival, an event promising “the best in food, art, music, and adventure” on a private island in the Bahamas, has been “postponed” after festivalgoers reported conditions that more closely evoke Lord of the Flies than Coachella. Tickets for the event, which promised performances by Tyga, Desiigner, Major Lazer, Pusha T, and Blink-182, 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
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