St. Augustine's Ghost Stories, Told From Your Own Golf Cart
Your party alone on an electric golf cart, with a guide at the wheel telling ghost stories through St. Augustine after dark.
This ghost tour happens from the seat of an electric golf cart. Panda Tours puts your party on the cart by itself, with a guide at the wheel who tells the stories as the streets roll past. The listing presents it as a partnership with Haunting Hour St. Augustine and calls it that company's ghost tour, now on wheels.
One price covers the whole cart, and the ride is private to your party. Forty-five minutes is a short window, and riders say the cart covers a lot of ground in it. Several who had already done other ghost tours in town wrote that this one still took them down streets they had never seen.
The cart leaves at 8:00, 9:00 or 10:00 PM, and booking any of those slots reserves it for your party alone.
The Last Ride Private Golf Cart Ghost Tour for up to 7 people!Panda Tours · private electric golf cart ghost tour · 45 minutes · booked for up to 7 riderswww.viator.comCemetery Gates, Aviles Street, the Residential End of St. George
Every place on the listed route is a drive-by, and the stories come from the driver's seat. The first is the St. Augustine National Cemetery on Marine Street, where the listing promises what it calls a true ghost story. The cemetery is open from sunrise to sunset, and on this ride it is seen from the street. Its three coquina pyramids, the Dade Monument, were dedicated in 1842 and mark the graves of soldiers killed in Dade's Massacre of 1835.
From there the cart runs down Aviles Street, which the listing bills as the nation's oldest street, and through the residential end of St. George Street. The listing also says the tour does not go into any buildings. It calls the guide licensed, and the city does require one: guides who show visitors its historic places need to be at least 18 and pass a one-time exam on local history and street names.
Who Rides, and Which Way the Seats Face
Everyone on the booking rides together, and this listing accepts up to seven people. The operator's own booking page for the same ghost tour still says up to five. Its holiday lights ride is sold in two versions, one for five passengers and one for seven. A party of six or seven should give its headcount in the special requirements field when booking. The single traveler category starts at age zero, and a baby is entered like any other rider, and the listing states that not all seats face forward.
Riders who cannot walk far have written that the cart suited them, including one whose mother, 78, can't walk long distances. Parents write about the guide adjusting the stories for their children, and one family rode with kids aged five, seven and nine.
One Price for the Whole Cart
The price is set for the cart: a party of two pays what a party of seven pays. Cancelling at least twenty-four hours before the start returns the full price, and inside twenty-four hours nothing is refunded. Tips for the guide are not included.
The listing marks the ride as dependent on the weather. One ticket covers the whole booking, shown on a phone or on paper.
Meeting the Cart at the Corner Market
Riders meet the cart at the Corner Market in Lincolnville, 97 Martin Luther King Avenue. Flagler College's student paper reports that the building has been a convenience store since the 1920s. Parking at the Corner Market is free, according to the operator's own notes.
Arrive fifteen minutes before the start, the lead time the operator's booking system sets for this tour. Start times are 8:00, 9:00 and 10:00 PM, and a rider who took the 10:00 PM slot wrote that they had the streets to themselves.
Keep a phone handy for photos. Riders mention the guide passing around pictures from earlier rides, and more than one went home scanning their own shots for orbs.