FYRE Festival founder Billy McFarland has reassured revelers that the proper permits are in place for the rapidly approaching multi-day event in Mexico.
McFarland proclaimed that the second installment of Fyre Festival will be an opportunity for him to amend the disastrous 2017 event, which left attendees stranded on an island in the Bahamas that lacked food, water, and accommodations.
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“I have a second chance to do right by the people around me, and against all odds, to turn these nightmares into dreams,” McFarland said via video at Thursday’s press conference in Playa del Carmen, in Quintana Roo, Mexico.
“For the attendees, for the partners sitting on stage, Fyre Festival 2 is about being a dreamer.
“Being a traveler and being an adventure seeker around the world, converging on Playa del Carmen to live like Jack Sparrow, or live like Lara Croft for 3 days.”
The festival will host 1,800 guests and feature 40 musical performances, event associate Daniel Martin said.
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However, the Fyre Festival organizers stopped short of revealing the artists despite the event slated to kick off on May 30.
Partner Mike Falb vowed to unveil the list of artists on Fyre Festival’s social media platforms next week.
“The intention of this press conference is to state the basis of the festival, the foundation of it, the security, the locations, the infrastructure, the hotels, so this is the intention of today,” Falb said.
“The artist, the first release of artists will come next week, so please be attentive to it.”
Another partner named Fernando said the organizers have already secured the permits to make the festival “successful.”
Manuel Reta, the head of artists and commercial relations for the Mexican event organizer Lostnights, said the Fyre team has found a home for the festival in Playa del Carmen.
Reta expressed confidence in the Fyre team’s ability to make the festival a success.
“The reality is that all of those, doubts and concerns are fixed with a very simple thing – We are in Mexico,” he said.
“We’re in the Riviera Maya, we’re in Playa del Carmen. There is no lack of, 5-star hotels, 5 -star culinary experience.
“And since founding the new partners, the new team here for Fyre Festival 2 it’s about building long-term and deep relationships with both the partners of the company, the attendees of the events, and the local supporters in the region for which Fyre Festival will be held.”
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The press conference comes a day after The U.S. Sun exclusively revealed Fyre Festival goers will not get a refund if the event if canceled.
The top-tier Prometheus ticket is valued for a staggering $1.1 million.
The U.S. Sun revealed that the second iteration of the initially doomed festival has some unusual stipulations in the Terms of Service for the multi-day soiree, which has already changed its location twice in the last month.
In the astonishingly long Terms of Service, Fyre attempts to avoid accountability should just about anything go wrong this time around.
In the lengthy agreement for ticket holders, there are a slew of serious warnings for what one might expect with their pricey purchase.
One such warning reads under a section titled Refunds and Exchanges that “All Ticket sales are final. NO REFUNDS OR EXCHANGES.”
General admission starts at $1,400, with the next ticket step at $5,000 then $25,000 and finally an eye-watering $1,100,000 for the Prometheus package.
On Tuesday, Fyre founder McFarland claimed on Instagram that they had sold their second Prometheus ticket.
In 2018, McFarland pleaded guilty to two charges of wire fraud in federal court in Manhattan and confessed to using fraudulent documents to entice investors into putting over $26 million into his company.
He agreed to forfeit the $26 million, and had previously claimed to The U.S. Sun that his attempt at Fyre Fest 2 would help him pay down his restitution.
The agreement continued with a disclaimer about the simple purchase of a ticket to Fyre Fest 2 that immediately placed the ticket holder on shaky ground for attending any actual events.
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