A luxury festival in the Bahamas has descended into chaos as party-goers have been left without food or water and severe flight delays home.
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'It was designed for terrible things to happen:' We spoke to someone who said she was 'locked indoors' with 'no food or water' at the chaotic Fyre Festival
Lamaan Gallal gives us her account of her experience at Fyre Festival.
Lamaan Gallal (left) gave us an account of her experience at Fyre Festival.
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Fyre Festival, advertised as "a cultural moment created from a blend of music, art, and food" on the island of Great Exuma, has been branded a "disaster" and a "scam" on social media.
Lamaan Gallal, a student at Northeastern Universty in Boston, flew out to the event, but quickly turned around after seeing the conditions on site.
Gallal is currently stranded at Exuma International Airport, close to where the festival is being staged.
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She gave Business Insider the following account of her ordeal. Fyre Festival did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.
"Don't even get me started about the 'site' of the festival. It was designed for terrible things to happen there," she told us over Twitter direct messages.
"The moment we got there and I started to realise all the legal and safety concerns. I got this adrenaline rush that we had to get out," she said.
"There was no light for night time. The tents could not be closed and there was no security," Gallal added.
"Everyone you spoke to had a different answer and no-one knew who was in charge. The ultimate thing was that there were no [phone] chargers or electricity outlets. We couldn't charge our phones and there was barely service."
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She posted a number of photos from the site on Twitter, including images of the catering and toilet facilities.
Gallal, like many other festival goers, left the site and attempted to get a flight home. Here they ran into further trouble.
"We could barely find a way to get to the [back] airport and when we finally did, we waited for hours," she said.
"They got us on a plane at 1:30 [a.m.]. We stayed on the plane and they stalled us for five hours for no reason, going down and up the rows checking passports. They made us get off the plane and back on again and said some b******t about the head count being off."
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