Taylor Swift fans compare $500 Eras Tour event to failed Fyre Festival after organizer bought 191 hotel rooms

After a Taylor Swift ace instrumentality went viral for booking 191 edifice rooms successful New Orleans, Louisiana ahead of her Eras Tour stop, Swifties are speaking retired astir the experience, with immoderate comparing it to the failed euphony festival Fyre Fest.

Rebecca Fox was charging a deposit of $25 connected apical of astir $500 for edifice rooms erstwhile the Eras Tour concerts were being held astatine the Caesars Superdome on October 25, 26, and 27.

She said she paid astir $500 per booking for 191 rooms astatine the Holiday Inn connected Loyola Avenue successful precocious 2023 and said she wasn't up-charging, she simply wanted to walk clip with 'like-minded Swifties.' 

Guests were promised a Taylor-themed goodie bag, arsenic good arsenic a excavation enactment with a DJ and cocktails, scavenger hunts, a endowment show, a karaoke party, relationship bracelet making, and a swamp tour. But Swifties were near furious, claiming she didn't present and fundamentally charged them for escaped edifice amenities. 

Rebecca has since responded to critics of the event, admitting to DailyMail.com that 'things did not spell arsenic planned but determination was nary sick intent.'

The Holiday Inn connected Loyola costs $137 a nighttime for the play of November 22, and is simply a three-star edifice adjacent the Superdome, wherever the Shake It Off vocalist performed. 

Rebecca was successful complaint of a backstage Facebook radical of fans staying astatine the hotel, which was renamed Holiday House arsenic an ode to the popstar's Rhode Island mansion.  

One contented creator in the US with the username jump4js made a five-part bid astir her experience, and explained she was 1 of the archetypal 50 radical successful the Holiday House radical aft initially being connected the waitlist for 1 of the rooms. 

Many commenters said they wanted to publication a country with her, but were lone capable to if they spent further wealth connected the events she was throwing, connected apical of the $500 to publication the room. 

'She would endanger to footwear radical retired of the group, she would endanger to cancel their edifice room,' jump4js explained if radical wanted to be extracurricular events held successful the city. 

She sent a person of a person successful her spot and Rebecca ended up getting upset. 

The creator past shared a screenshot from the Facebook radical that showed Rebecca saying that if they could nary longer attend, their country could lone beryllium refunded if they sold their performance summons to her. 

'I don't get it, similar however is an Eras summons worthy the aforesaid arsenic a edifice room?! There's nary way! Who would bash spot successful that and springiness her the tickets?!' 1 pistillate asked, arsenic Eras tickets successful New Orleans were selling for much than $1,200 for the slightest costly seat, and the edifice rooms outgo $500, leaving commenters profoundly confused.

'What does performance tickets person to bash with the edifice room? Like, she thought radical would conscionable merchantability her their tickets? I americium truthful confused,' different asked. 

One commenter said, 'I judge she said astatine 1 constituent (fairly recently) that if she didn’t get her quota, she was going to person to merchantability the tickets to wage for the HH events. She had rather a fewer tickets successful assorted sections.' 

In a substance connection to quality outlet Fox 8, Rebecca said that she had retained an attorney, who was retired of the country.

When contacted by DailyMail.com, Rebecca responded: 'My lawyer has advised maine not to springiness an authoritative connection until helium returns.

'But I deliberation anyone tin spot that everyone got their rooms and everyone was harmless and telling maine to termination myself oregon question assistance implicit a missing DJ and an unfilled goody container is perfectly unbelievable. Things did not spell arsenic planned but determination was nary sick intent.' 

According to Fox 8, she besides posted connected Facebook: 'I cognize I failed. I've admitted I failed.'

Other creators have besides shared however displeased they were with the events, which they paid for arsenic further costs connected apical of the $500 room. 

One TikTok creator showed texts that said the $75 excavation party, which was advertised arsenic an 'unforgettable' acquisition with passed appetizers, a currency bar, and DJS, ended up having lone 2 bartenders, nary music, nary towels, and nary spot to change. 

'So fundamentally she was charging radical to usage the FREE amenities astatine the hotel?? and threw successful immoderate appetizers,' 1 commenter responded to the representation of the bare pool. 

Paige Bennett-Primke, who is based successful New Orleans, discussed the immersive photograph acquisition she attended that Rebecca organized, and said she wanted to bargain a summons astatine the doorway to articulation friends. 

Hotel guests who had already paid the $500 interest could wage a abstracted interest to be the experience, wherever they could instrumentality pictures and bargain items from vendors, and outsiders who were not staying successful the country artifact could besides wage for the experience. 

When Paige went to the lawsuit astatine the edifice she realized that nary 1 was checking tickets, truthful anyone could locomotion in, which was disheartening to the radical who had purchased tickets. 

Paige called the photograph acquisition 'really disappointing,' and said portion determination were bully vendors doing hairsbreadth and glitter and selling jewelry, the photos 'left a batch to beryllium desired.' 

One commenter wrote, 'Sadly this has been gathering for weeks and present present we are. I anticipation she refunds each and makes this right.'