Rekindled Fyre Festival now says it will be held in Playa del Carmen

A March 21 station connected Fyre Festival’s authoritative societal media relationship says that the 2nd variation of the philharmonic festival is moving to Playa del Carmen pursuing a February announcement that it would instrumentality spot successful Isla Mujeres.

Fyre Festival, a fraudulent, disastrous euphony festival held successful 2017, saw its creator Billy MacFarland look transgression charges successful the United States aft pleading blameworthy to charges of ligament fraud, slope fraud and making mendacious statements to national officials. After spending 4 years successful prison, he’s present attempting a 2nd variation of the festival dubbed Fyre Festival 2.

PLAYA IS ON FYRE 🇲🇽 FYRE 2: MAY 30 – JUNE 2 pic.twitter.com/lWyD57Ul0C

— Billy McFarland (@pyrtbilly) March 21, 2025

The latest announcement changing the venue’s determination was met with skeptical comments from societal media users like: “How is this dude adjacent legally allowed to effort this again? Lol,” and “Does this feline not cognize however to plan? Situate determination first. Then program from there.” 

Responding to the antagonistic absorption to the event, MacFarland, 33, said successful a video connected Twitter aboriginal successful March that “Fyre 2 is real,” claiming that helium has contracts with partners that see a accumulation institution successful Mexico, yachts, hotels and more. 

According to its authoritative Instagram page, Fyre Festival 2 is acceptable to hap from May 30 to June 2. A property league is scheduled for Thursday, March 27, successful Playa del Carmen, to stock further details of the event. 

“This property league marks a large milestone successful bringing Fyre 2 Festival 2 to beingness arsenic an intimate, curated event, bringing unneurotic the champion of music, arts, community, and escapade successful the bosom of the Riviera Maya,” the connection says. Despite the announcement, details astir the philharmonic lineup stay scarce, leaving fans and skeptics wondering who mightiness perform astatine the festival. 

Tickets to the event commencement astatine US $1,400 for wide access. VIP entree tin beryllium purchased for $5,000, which successful summation to the wide entree package, includes a shuttle work from a enactment of section hotels. 

For $25,000, fans tin get backstage entree to the “Water Stage, Pitside entree to the Fight Pit, a curated itinerary of FYRE experiences, proscription passim the weekend, accommodation for 2 nights amongst the artists and performers, concierge, and more,” according to the organizers. 

As if those packages weren’t enticing enough, the festival’s tract advertises a summons priced astatine $1.1 cardinal dubbed the “Prometheus God of Fyre” ticket, which includes the aforementioned “Artists” bundle positive entree to the Prometheus Marina and accommodation successful immoderate of the pursuing alternatives: the Marina four-stateroom yacht, a four-bedroom villa provided by the Nemesis Group oregon a three-bedroom Presidential Suite astatine the Chablé Maroma, for 3 nights.

Neither Chablé Maroma nor Nemesis Group person confirmed this collaboration. 

The Playa del Carmen municipal authorities has not yet released a connection regarding Fyre Festival 2. (Dennis Sylvester Hurd/wikicommons)

The archetypal Fyre Festival, which sold time passes ranging from $500 to $1,500, and VIP packages including airfare and accommodation for $12,000, was scheduled to instrumentality spot successful April 2017 successful the Bahamas. When attendees arrived astatine the venue, they recovered flimsy camping tents alternatively of luxury villas and inexpensive nutrient including a now-infamous cheese sandwich that was served on with immoderate lettuce successful a styrofoam container.

It remains to beryllium seen however Fyre Festival 2 unfolds, and if MacFarland has regained the public’s trust.

Mexico News Daily