Tour St. Augustine, Florida

02/14/2025

Some sad news to share: For those of you who had the pleasure of knowing our long time & much loved Food & Wine Tour Guide Ed, we wanted to let you all know that Ed very recently passed away. Ed truly loved his guests, St Augustine’s history, and sharing his passion for food & wine with you all! He was a real gentleman and a true joy to know. His laughter, wisdom & kindness will be greatly missed by all. If you have a fond memory of Ed we’re sure he would have loved for you to share it… You’ll be in our hearts always, Ed! RIP ❤️🙏

01/26/2025

Ayla's Acres No-Kill Animal Rescue, Inc. is one of St Augustine’s amazing local animal rescue shelters that does so much good, and last night they sadly experienced a devestating fire. Here’s what they reported from their page below. There is a Gofundme there and a link to donate on their page if anyone can help (we did) They’re going to need all the support they can get! 🙏❤️

From their page:

“At midnight, January 26, Ayla's Acres sanctuary experienced another fire. This time the modular home was completely destroyed.

At this time, this is what we know.
1. Nedra is safe.
2. Chuck was taken to Shands Burn Unit in Gainesville.
3. Two dogs, Birdie and Beau are safe.
4. Two birds, Sugar and Guacamole are safe.
5. All of the remaining animals in the house were lost to the fire.

We have an immediate need for foster homes. We have eight dogs and four cats that need housed. We supply everything they need.

We will also need homes for three donkeys and four horses.

At this time, the Fire Marshall believes that the fire started in the wiring by the heat pumps outside the home and quickly traveled to the crawl space.

Please keep Chuck, Nedra, and all of these animals in your prayers.

We will update you as we have more information.”

12/28/2024

$50 OFF SPECIAL HOLIDAY DISCOUNT (Per Person, Plus Any Guests!) ON ALL FOOD & WINE TOURS BOOKED NOW FOR ANY FUTURE DATE! 🎄🎁💵

**Not available online, must call to book & mention this special rate**

🍷Food & Wine Tours are the BEST way to experience multiple downtown restaurants in one afternoon without waiting around for reservations (or in crowds!) as everything is pre-arranged by our City Walks team. It’s truly a VIP experience, as only 10 guests are taken on a tour per day.

🍽️ This tasting tour is all inclusive; Tons of delicious food prepared by top local chefs specially for our group, generous wine pairings at every stop, and even tips to the servers!

🇺🇸 Florida’s First Foodie Tour: City Walks was actually the very first company to start offering local food & wine tasting tours here over 17 years ago, and the experience has been perfected. Founded by the late St Augustine local resident Alice Sutherland, she modeled the tour after an experience in her native Scotland… and the idea was an immediate hit here on this side of the pond!

🏰 Your professionally licensed guide will take care of all the details. You’ll learn about St. Augustine’s fascinating history en route throughout the day, with a few special surprise culinary & historic stops as well as the restaurant visits. Space is very limited so advance reservations are required. **Private group bookings are also available on any day for weddings, bachelorette parties, corporate events and more. Minimum 8 people for a private tour, and discount applies**

💸 All Food Tour guests will receive a special 10% OFF discount on all merchandise at Tour St Augustine Gifts located at 4 Granada Street downtown.

Call (904) 825-0087 and ask for the $50 P/P OFF Holiday Discount. Booking office is open 7 days a week from 10am to 8pm. More tour details may be found on the website.

StAugustineCityWalks.com

12/25/2024

Merry Christmas & Happy Holiday wishes to all, from our little mascot (aka the big boss) Buddy the Dachshund! 🐶🎄🎁❤️ TourStAugustine.com 🎄🤶🏻🎅🏼

12/23/2024

Contact us to book your NIGHTS OF LIGHTS Red Train Tour, and receive a number of other VIP Nights of Lights discounts!

Call us at (904) 825-0087 to book!

12/23/2024

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Looking for something fun to do now that downtown St. Augustine is less hectic? TourStAugustine.com offers FREE VIP Nights of Lights Walking Tours nightly through January 25. Enjoy smaller groups and easier parking on weeknights. And visit our gift shop to give yourself something special. Schedule online or call (904)825-0087

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11/29/2024

BLACK FRIDAY SALE: 25% OFF Gift Certificates of ANY AMOUNT for the Tour St Augustine Gift Shop! (No expiration date, and tour guest discounts still apply in store)

Browse our unique selection of St Augustine themed gifts & local souvenirs, apparel, ghost tour & paranormal merchandise, Nights of Lights holiday gifts, artwork, historic memorabilia, Megalodon teeth, jewelry… and more!

We’re located at 4 Granada Street in the downtown Historic District, across from the Lightner Museum and the Casa Monica Hotel. Open 7 days a week from 10am to 8pm.

You may stop by and purchase in person, email us, or call us to purchase your gift certificate over the phone in any amount and ask for the Black Friday sale! Gift certificates will show full value, and can be emailed… It’s the perfect holiday gift idea for loved ones OR for yourself! 🎁

(904) 825-0087
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Visit us any time for a unique shopping experience and browse our collection of tour themed merchandise, local art, collectibles & antiques, replica treasure coins & colonial currencies, antiques, paranormal gear & equipment, historical books & maps, and much more!

11/28/2024

BLACK FRIDAY SALE: SAVE $149! For a limited time you can get a gift certificate for two for the City Walks Food & Wine Tasting Tour (normally $298) for only $149! No limit, no expiration date, and you can buy for yourself or friends/family! The certificate will show the full $298 value, and/or you can also call and book your tour directly at the “BLACK FRIDAY” rate, for any tour through 2025!

🍷Food & Wine Tours are the BEST way to experience multiple downtown restaurants in one afternoon without waiting around for reservations or in crowds, as everything is pre-arranged by the City Walks team. It’s truly a VIP experience as they only take up to 10 guests on tour per day.

🍽️ This tasting tour is all inclusive; Tons of delicious food prepared by top local chefs specially for your group, generous wine pairings at every stop, and even tips to the servers!

🇺🇸 Florida’s First Foodie Tour: City Walks was actually the very first company to start offering local food & wine tasting tours here over 18 years ago, and the experience has been perfected. Founded by the late St Augustine local resident Alice Sutherland, she modeled the tour after an experience in her native Scotland… and the idea was an immediate hit here on this side of the pond!

💸 All Food Tour guests will also receive a special 10% OFF discount on all merchandise at Tour St Augustine Gifts located at 4 Granada Street downtown, where you’ll check in for the tours.

Call (904) 825-0087 and ask for the special BLACK FRIDAY discount. The reservations office is open 7 days a week from 10am to 8pm (closed on Thanksgiving & Christmas Day)

More details on the tours can be found on the website:
StAugustineCityWalks.com

11/19/2024

We were honored to recently have a very special guest do a private VIP ghost tour with us… Yes that is none other than R.L. Stine, author of the popular Goosebumps books! (With one of our fabulous tour guides, Heidy)

Stine’s Goosebumps novels are the second best selling book series in history, right behind JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books. Mr. Stine was in town visiting and chose the city’s ORIGINAL ghost tour company to explore St Augustine’s haunted history with! Our team was super excited to meet him and take him around town, sharing our own tales of St Augustine’s spooky past! 👻

Did you know you can arrange your very own private VIP ghost tours & paranormal investigations? Our special 50% OFF Florida resident rates on all tours are extended through the end of the year, just give us a call to book (904) 825-0087.

You can find more details on our various tours & programs online, and even see some of the actual ghostly photos captured on tours!

GhostToursOfStAugustine.com

10/28/2024

Here’s some interesting historical facts about the actual origins of modern day public “ghost tours” and how they got their start right here in St. Augustine, Florida many decades ago…

Ghost Tours of St. Augustine Inc. was actually the very first organization to begin researching & cataloguing St. Augustine FL’s paranormal occurrences over 30 years ago. In doing this and then sharing that info with guests on a nightly evening tour that anyone could sign up for, they LITERALLY invented what is now known as the modern day “ghost tour” which is popular all over in many different cities!

Company founder, the late Sandy Craig, was a history enthusiast & St Augustine native who’s family origins dated all the way back to the Spanish Minorcan settlers. She joined with local historians, writers, and paranormal investigators as she wanted to create some type of evening activity for visiting overnight field trip groups for her local tour operator business. It was actually a very sleepy little town back then after 5pm, as hard as that may be to believe now!

So they spent over a year just researching & gathering stories through numerous interviews with residents, and combing through archives at the local Historical Society, before putting this new concept for a “tour” together. Her team even went on to actually write the first books on the town’s haunted history- which are still used in training even today by many other ghost tour companies all over… the rest, as they say, is history!

That legacy continues with a number of different haunted tour options available nightly. From the now famous Ghostly Experience lantern-lit nightly walking tours, to special Paranormal Investigations, Private VIP Ghost Tours and even Creepy Crawl Haunted Pub Tours (pub tours operated in partnership with St. Augustine City Walks Food & Wine Tours)

Ghost Tours of St. Augustine Inc is dedicated to sharing the city’s authentic haunted history and real reports of ghostly sightings, while keeping the past alive through documented accounts of the undead spirits who are still purported to roam the town. Had it not been for Ms Craig’s novel idea and interest in the paranormal, who knows if there’d be these types of tours today that we all love so much?!

Visit the website to learn more, and to see some unexplainable actual photos captured by guests while on tour. Florida Resident discounts are available for all tours, and St Johns (and surrounding) County residents may join the nightly tours for free with ID!

(904) 825-0087
GhostToursOfStAugustine.com

09/19/2024

09/19/2024

LOCALS TOUR FREE! Due to demand, Ghost Tours of St. Augustine is now expanding the Local Resident FREE ghost tour nights to 7 NIGHTS A WEEK, and are also allowing St Johns AS WELL AS ALL SURROUNDING COUNTIES of Duval, Flagler, Putnam & Clay to all take advantage of this offer now through Dec 31st!

(Plus 50% OFF for ALL Florida Residents, on all tours included Haunted Pub Crawls, Paranormal Investigations, and VIP Private Group Tours!)

As the city’s very first ORIGINAL haunted tour operator that started over 30 years ago (and also now the largest) we are proud to support the local community, who’s residents both past and present have contributed to so many of the historic ghost stories preserved through our research. The goal is to share these enchanted tours with everyone, in order to keep that history alive!

The Ghostly Experience Lantern Lit Haunted History Walking Tour will be free for local & surrounding county residents every night between now and Dec 31st. This is literally the world’s first public “ghost tour” that was pioneered by local resident & Menorcan descendent Sandy Craig over 30 years ago, and first started it all! 👻

Tour guests will also receive generous discounts of 10% off all merchandise (and $5 off select apparel) in the Ghostly Gift Shop, including ghost hunting equipment & other paranormal oddities.

You must call to make your reservation, whether for the county local free nights or the Florida resident discounts. The downtown office is open 7 days a week from 10am to 8pm (904) 825-0087

You can find more details on the tours themselves (including guest photos taken on tours!) on the website:

GhostToursOfStAugustine.com

06/15/2024

LOCALS TOUR FREE! Due to demand, Ghost Tours of St. Augustine is now expanding the Local Resident FREE ghost tour nights to 7 NIGHTS A WEEK, and are also allowing St Johns AND ALL SURROUNDING COUNTY RESIDENTS of Duval, Flagler, Putnam & Clay to all take advantage of this offer now through Dec 31st!

(Plus 50% OFF for ALL Florida Residents, on all tours!)

As the city’s very first ORIGINAL haunted tour operator that started over 30 years ago (and also now the largest) Ghost Tours of St Augustine is proud to support the local community, who’s residents both past and present have contributed to so many of the historic ghost stories preserved through their research. Their goal is to share these enchanted tours with EVERYONE, in order to keep that history alive! Things are more expensive these days and so Ghost Tours of St Augustine wants to help our local residents enjoy their own history, along with all the visitors.

The Ghostly Experience Lantern Lit Haunted History Walking Tour will be free for local & surrounding county residents every night between now and Dec 31st. This is literally the world’s first public “ghost tour” that was pioneered by local resident & Menorcan descendent Sandy Craig over 30 years ago, and first started it all! 👻

AND REMEMBER THAT ALL FLORIDA RESIDENTS GET 50% OFF ALL TOURS, ALL NIGHTS including Haunted Pub Crawls, Paranormal Investigation Tours, as well as our Private VIP Tours.. even on weekends!

ALL tour guests will always receive generous discounts of 10% off all merchandise (and $5 off all apparel items) inthe Ghostly Gift Shop, including ghost hunting equipment.

You must call to make your reservation, whether for the county local free nights or the Florida resident discounts. The downtown office is open 7 days a week from 10am to 8pm (904) 825-0087

You can find more details on the tours themselves (including guest photos taken on tours!) on the website:

GhostToursOfStAugustine.com

04/30/2024

LOCALS TOUR FREE! Due to demand, Ghost Tours of St. Augustine is now expanding the Local Resident FREE ghost tour nights to 7 NIGHTS A WEEK, and are also allowing St Johns surrounding county residents of Duval, Flagler, Putnam & Clay to all take advantage of this offer now through Dec 31st!

(Plus 50% OFF for ALL Florida Residents, on all tours!)

As the city’s very first ORIGINAL haunted tour operator that started over 30 years ago (and also now the largest) Ghost Tours of St Augustine is proud to support the local community, who’s residents both past and present have contributed to so many of the historic ghost stories preserved through their research. Their goal is to share these enchanted tours with EVERYONE, in order to keep that history alive! Things are more expensive these days and so Ghost Tours of St Augustine wants to help our local residents enjoy their own history, along with all the visitors.

The Ghostly Experience Lantern Lit Haunted History Walking Tour will be free for local & surrounding county residents every night between now and Dec 31st. This is literally the world’s first public “ghost tour” that was pioneered by local resident & Menorcan descendent Sandy Craig over 30 years ago, and first started it all! 👻

AND REMEMBER THAT ALL FLORIDA RESIDENTS GET 50% OFF ALL TOURS, ALL NIGHTS including Haunted Pub Crawls, Paranormal Investigation Tours, as well as our Private VIP Tours.. even on weekends!

ALL tour guests will always receive generous discounts of 10% off all merchandise (and $5 off all apparel items) inthe Ghostly Gift Shop, including ghost hunting equipment.

You must call to make your reservation, whether for the county local free nights or the Florida resident discounts. The downtown office is open 7 days a week from 10am to 8pm (904) 825-0087

You can find more details on the tours themselves (including guest photos taken on tours!) on the website:

GhostToursOfStAugustine.com