Here’s what Fyre Festival attendees thought they were getting when they bought $12,000 tickets — and here’s the nightmarish reality

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Fyre Festival goers were expecting the VIP experience when they set off to Great Exuma in the Bahamas.

But the reality was very different: delayed flights, half-built huts to sleep in, and cold cheese sandwiches to eat. And that doesn’t even include the disastrous trip home.

This luxury festival, that cost between $450 and $12,000 for a ticket, was advertised as two weekends in paradise.

It turned into a nightmare. 

Take a look at festival-goers’ expectations compared with the reality they encountered. 

The full promo video is available to watch here: 

 

The three-day party was supposed to be on a private beach on the island of Great Exuma in the Bahamas.

Over two weekends: April 28-30 and May 5-7.

A host of supermodels had promoted it on social media, including Hailey Baldwin, Emily Ratajkowski, and Bella Hadid.

Guests expected to be partying on the white sand beaches.

But when they turned up it didn’t look anything like the advertisements.

 

They were told they would be flying in on a custom, VIP-configured Boeing 737 from Miami.

To have the full VIP experience.

Instead guests ended up queuing for hours at the airport.

 

And collecting their luggage from the back of a shipping container in the dead of night.

 

The ticket cost was meant to include gourmet food.

Guests were expecting Starr Catering Group to be there, but the group said in a statement to Business Insider that it had terminated its services with Fyre on April 2. Instead, there were makeshift food tents…

 

They were given cheese sandwiches and salad with no dressing.

 

Fans were expecting to see Blink 182 perform.

But the band dropped out Thursday, before the festival started.

 

Festival goers were promised luxury eco-friendly domes and villas to stay in. The accommodation was included in the ticket price.

 

But one guest described it as a “disaster tent city.”

 

Some of the tents hadn’t been put up.

 

Instead of partying on the beach with friends.

Guests were trying to take a flight back to Miami.

 

But even that wasn’t possible and many ended up being stranded in the airport.

 

One guest described how she was kept in a room without food or water, waiting for a flight to take off. She said a person fainted because the conditions were so bad.

 Not exactly the VIP experience they had envisioned.

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