On Sunday, September 27 news broke out that TomorrowWorld left thousands of concert goers to fend for themselves in the middle of the night without food, water, or rides home. Instead, they were forced to walk 4-5 hours and shell out hundreds of dollars once they finally reached an uber, taxi, or shuttle. Many unhappy patrons have gone to Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to release their frustrations. Several attendees have shared their stories about what their experience was like.

Christine Jiazhen Li of Ann Arbor, Michigan writes, “This was what I experienced last night: We left the event at midnight-ish, walked 10 miles for four hours in the rain, in the cold forest, aimless, and desperate. There was no phone reception, no water or food provided. Finally, we got to an empty shuttle bus after four hours – the only and last bus – which we already paid for. The bus driver refused to let us on at the beginning for some reason, with hundreds of us begged him for over a hour. Finally, he let us in after one of the event organizer got involved (this was already around 4am, we haven’t had any water or food in four hours and walked 10 miles). We thought we were finally safe but then he stopped the bus in the middle of nowhere and requested each of us to pay him $10 cash otherwise he said he will kick us out. He collected $700 in cash. One passenger asked him to show ID but got refused and threatened him. This bus was arranged by the event and he already got paid. My girlfriend and I finally got to hotel around 6 am, but the rest of our group (about 8 people) didn’t get back until past 7am. They walked over 10 miles to a uber location and were asked to pay $100 per person for a only 20 minute ride back to our hotel. Also, two of them got their cell phones stolen including their wallets and IDs. The event coordinators lied to us the whole time. They told us to wait in line for the shuttle bus. I learned today on the news that they actually canceled the shuttle buses and just left all of us there. It was like a refugee camp. Tired and hungry people were sleeping on the grass and I saw people fainting in the bus and on the road. Lots of disabled people were left in the forest too. It was the worst experience of my life. The event organizers could have arranged some cars to pick us up but they chose to not to and just simply canceled the event Sunday. They even blamed everything on the rain, it only rained 1/5 of the time. The event promised us shuttle bus service for everyone, but there were 180,000 people at the festival on Saturday and most of them got abandoned in the mud.”

Jarrod Forsythe of Jacksonville Beach, Florida writes, “We (my girlfriend and I) had a 1 day Saturday pass this year, and I have camped the past 2 years. After the long walk to the “shuttle lot” we kept walking another mile and people began bidding on Ubers before they could get to the lot. I paid some random Uber driver 90$ to go 16 miles (I don’t have Uber; I wanted a taxi, but there were none). I heard people were paying 200$ a little later. There was a good 6000 people still behind us when we left around 4:30am. We had a camel pack for water but it ran out during the 2 hour wait before the walk. People were collapsing and sleeping all over; side of the road, woods, other peoples’ drive ways it was insane. Almost had riots break out in the beginning. TomorrowWorld staff and police were rude and had zero idea what was going on. A cop told us “to get out of his way”. It was literally one of the craziest situations ever. I will never go back to TW and I wish they would do something, but they showed they don’t care about us…just our money!!!!

TomorrowWorld festival goers left to sleep in the mud early Sunday morning.

These stories and many more are available in multiple TomorrowWorld Facebook groups. Lawyers are currently seeking stories from attendees as law suits begin to build.

XO Steph

Photos courtesy of Christine Jiazhen Li

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