Real Ghost Stories

Like many other places, St Augustine has a reputation as the place to have a ghost encounter. This city witnessed many abuses, from the conquistadors to the civil rights movement and the hangings at the city jail. This added to the many burial grounds still visible in the city: Huguenots and Tolomato cemeteries, the merciless pirate attacks and battles at the Castillo  de San Marcos created the perfect atmosphere for the occult and countless ghost stories. However, I want to share some of our personal experiences with our guests.

First of all, we had a couple from who shared their experience while vacationing in New Orleans. They complained to the hotel staff about the noises coming form the room above theirs at night. They described it as if someone (or something) was moving the furniture around one floor up from theirs in the middle of the night. The noise woke them up. To their surprise,  there was no room above theirs and the hotel staff casually mentioned that it happened from time to time.

Likewise we had another couple who recounted a very similar experience at their hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Several haunted places in St Augustine: The St Augustine Light house; The Castillo de San Marcos (specifically the powder room); Flagler College; Casablanca Inn,

So is this a publicity stunt orchestrated by these hotels or a real ghost encounter?  You be the judge. Me, I am paying more attention from now on when I see these guided ghost tours in St Augustine or when I am walking down the streets of the Oldest City at night.

Duration
2 hours 30 minutes
Group Size
Up to 10

St Augustine Boat and Walking Tour en Español

San Agustin Por Tierra y Mar. Disfrute un paseo narrado en bote, visita a Flagler College y un paseo caminando por las areas históricas mas importantes de la ciudad. Cubriremos tres períodos históricos: Descubrimiento, Períodos Español y Británico y la era dorada de Henry Flagler. Durante este tour usted entenderá la importancia histórica de San Agustin.

Que Esperar
Recorrido en bote narrado a bordo del Victory III de 75 minutos por la bahía de Matanzas, seguido de un recorrido a pie de 60 minutos por el centro de San Agustín, que incluye una visita al Flagler College, anteriormente el Hotel Ponce de Leon y el Hotel Alcazar, hoy en día el museo Lightner. Capture imágenes únicas del Castillo de San Marcos, el faro de San Agustín, el Puente de los Leones y otros sitios importantes.El Paseo a pie narrado recorre desde el centro de San Agustín, en el área de la Plaza de la Constitucion hasta el Colegio Flagler. Caminará en la calle mas antigua de los EU, Aviles Street. Se Observará la Basílica de San Agustín; la piscina interior mas grande del mundo en su época; Tambien visitaremos el famoso mostrador de Woolworth donde el evento de los St Augustine Four tuvo lugar. Después del recorrido a pie, podrá seguir explorando la ciudad a su gusto.

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Duration
2 hours 30 minutes
Group Size
Up to 10

St. Augustine Boat and Golf Cart Tour

Great shared tour to enjoy St Augustine from land and sea. Combines a boat tour with a golf cart tour of St Augustine.

The perfect way to experience St Augustine for those that would like to keep walking to a minimum. This tour combines a 1:15 large body of water minutes narrated boat tour of Matanzas harbor with magnificent views of the city with a one hour narrated golf cart tour for you to get up close to all the amazing landmarks the oldest city has to offer with live commentary from your city certified tour guide/driver. a blue bus parked in front of a palm treeIncludes complimentary bottled water or soda. This is a shared tour. To choose a private activity, select our Private Boat and Golf Cart Tour just for your group.

On the boat choose between the open top deck or the lower covered deck and then feel the breeze under the covered canopy of the limo golf cart. During the land portion of the tour, you will pass by the Plaza de la Constitucion, Castillo dea statue in a park with Lightner Museum in the background San Marcos, Former Hotel Ponce de Leon, and Alcazar and Casa Monica hotels. Then you will visit the Mision Nombre de Dios site, the Fountain of Youth among others. Depending on the departure time chosen, a small boat in a body of watera train traveling down tracks next to a treeyour tour may start with the golf cart or the boat.

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$89
Duration
1 hour
Group Size
Up to 10

St. Augustine Shared Golf Cart Tour

Visit the entire city of St Augustine on a Golf Cart! The perfect way to experience St Augustine for those that would like to keep walking to a minimum. The one hour narrated golf cart tour allows you to get up close to all the amazing landmarks the oldest city has to offer with live commentary from your city certified tour guide/driver.

You will board your golf cart at the Plaza de la Constitucion. After a short introduction, your tour will proceed by the waterfront with maginifecnt views of the Matanzas Harbor and the Bridge of Lions. The tour will pass in front of the Castillo de San Marcos on its way to The Mision Nombre de Dios site where the city founder, Pedro Menendez de Aviles, first arrived. You will then drive by Fountain of Youth, Magnolia Street and the Old Jail site.

Once downtown, your tour will pass by the former Hotel Ponce de Leon, Alcazar and Casa Monica hotels and then by the Governors House and down Aviles Street ( Oldest street in the US). You will be in the oldest part of town where you will be able to observe examples of Spanish and British colonial architecture.

Before returning to the Plaza, you will drive by the Flagler Memorial Presbyterian Church and the outside of the Hotel Ponce de Leon where the largest collection of in use Louis Comfort Tiffany stained glass windows collection may be observed.

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