OT-St.Augustine

[margiemc]

Has anyone ever stopped in St.Augustine on the way to or from WDW? My mother was asking me about picking up some religious medals for her from there. Where would be the best place to go? We are driving to WDW, so transportation is not a problem. Thanks!!

 

[spiceycat]

I don't know what you are talking about. Sorry!!!

 

[suzannews]

We love St Augustine, we've vacationed on the beach there twice and drove into town. Its about 2 hours from Disney. I don't know where you would buy religious medals.

Closer to Disney, the Mary Queen of the Universe Shrine church right off of I4 has a very nice and large gift shop where I've bought things in the past and then had them blessed by the priest.

 

[hobogary]

We stop for a day quite often, not sure about the medals, but the fountain of youth and old fort are nice. Do you need motel recomendations? info on touring?

 

[margiemc]

hobogary,

Some touring ideas would be great, thanks! I started looking around on the websites for St.Augustine, but didn't quite find what I wanted. So, I turned to my friends on the DIS Boards. They always have the answers

 

[HopperFan]

You can stay on the 95 and drive the 10 minutes or so to town, stay in town with a wide choice of walking and driving distance to historic area, or you can stay out on the beach which is 4 miles from town. Haved stayed at Comfort Inn on 95 by golf center which is nice, Country Inn and Suites in town which was fine but we drove the mile to historic area, and out on the beach is a Hampton Inn, Days Inn and I think Holiday Inn that looked good (we stayed in condo). The old fort in town is nice as is just walking all over the historic area. Lots of tours, St. Augustine Village, Flagler College, Lightner Museum, Fountain of Youth and more commercial like the Wax Museum, Ripleys and Old Jail. You can get a carriage/horse tour which would be nice taking you all over the area, there is also a trolley tour. Medals may be found in shops but I would also check the Mission of Nombre http://www.missionandshrine.org/. On the main road by historica area and has massive cross out on marshland. St. Augustine is a great side trip - but be careful, we made it a couple day side trip and now vacation there and DD wants to go to college there !

ps My wish places are to stay right in the middle of it are Casa Monica http://www.casamonica.com/ or the new Hilton http://www.hiltonhistoricstaugustine.com.

 

[spiceycat]

I was wrong my brother lives in St Augustine

his reply

" yes, there are many shops that sell replicas of historic Spanish and English religious artifacts. Some shops have on line catalogs."

but he gave no websites or references.

I would say here the castle (fort) too.

http://www.nps.gov/casa/

 

[spiceycat]

here is another site
http://www.staugustine.com/visit/

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

You have to go to the St. Augustine Lighthouse. It is one of the most haunted places in America. Just talking to the people who work in the gift shop will give you chills BUT I would say bring a camera and take lots of pictures. We did and let me tell you I have two that are very scary. One shows the outline of a man with a moustache and beard wearing kind of a fisherman's yellow hat. My son was the ONLY one in the room and there was nothing on the wall to reflect. The other is from the bottom of the circular stairway you can clearly see a little girl with curley hair leaning over the railing from the top looking down.

I have no idea how to post them or I would show them to you. I am going to send them to TAPS or should I say my son is.

 

[spiceycat]

I want to see those too

are they on your computer already? if so you can just upload to

http://new.photos.yahoo.com/

but you must sign up for yahoo first - it is free.

 

[hobogary]

Looks like everyone else has given you the list. We have stayed out by 95, in old town and south on St Augustine beach. All had nice places.

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

I want to see those too

are they on your computer already? if so you can just upload to

http://new.photos.yahoo.com/

but you must sign up for yahoo first - it is free.

I will try and get my son to do it for me. I do not know how to do any of the camera stuff. I am stricktly a Word and Internet person(who can buy stuff).

 

[HopperFan]

Or you can use photobucket for free. If I could figure that out, am sure you can. Would love to see it !! Forgot about being down in that basment and all, I bet there are a few spirits We loved that side trip. I am mortified of heights, but snuck out for a few pictures. Here is lighthouse and view to ocean ~

 

[Amity 3]

You have to go to the St. Augustine Lighthouse. It is one of the most haunted places in America. Just talking to the people who work in the gift shop will give you chills BUT I would say bring a camera and take lots of pictures. We did and let me tell you I have two that are very scary. One shows the outline of a man with a moustache and beard wearing kind of a fisherman's yellow hat. My son was the ONLY one in the room and there was nothing on the wall to reflect. The other is from the bottom of the circular stairway you can clearly see a little girl with curley hair leaning over the railing from the top looking down.

I have no idea how to post them or I would show them to you. I am going to send them to TAPS or should I say my son is.

go to http://photobucket.com/ and open an account.

you need to post these, please.

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

Or you can use photobucket for free. If I could figure that out, am sure you can. Would love to see it !! Forgot about being down in that basment and all, I bet there are a few spirits We loved that side trip. I am mortified of heights, but snuck out for a few pictures. Here is lighthouse and view to ocean ~

Did you talk to the clerks in the store? They told me of lots of manifestations one that had just happened the day before with the little spirits. I guess it is supposed to be a boy and a girl (did not know this when I took the photo). The clerk told us the day before she was trying to get ready to open up and she kept hearing a tap tap and then she would tap tap and they they would tap tap back with a different set of sounds. The spirit did not want to stop until the clerk said,"Okay cut it out I have work to do".
She told us that one of the men who works in the store will not stay after closing because one night he was there with another employee and someone(thing) took and SLAMMED the door in the room that they were in but the two employees were the only "people" in the place!

They said they get lots of visits and that the spirits are quite active. These women looked pretty sane too!

 

[HopperFan]

Very cool The day we went it was very busy and we really didn't get to talk to anyone. I am going to go through all my pictures....could I have been so lucky

Of course, now I have to go back !!

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

go to http://photobucket.com/ and open an account.

you need to post these, please.

I PROMISE to get my son to do it tonigt(probably have to pay him!). I do not even know how to get into the photos on the computer! TRUST me! I hate being computer illiterate and at the mercy of an 18 year old!



Anyone who had teenagers can tell you it is not a pretty sight when a parent has to beg a child to show them something on the computer. I find that the kids really lord it over the parents at least my darling little child does! BUT I will make the sacrifice so you guys can see the photos.

 

[lovethattink]

St. Augustine is a great place to visit, even if only for a pit stop.

There are so many stories about St. Augustine since it has been a viable town for centuries. We had a tour guide tell us that the term "dead ringer" and "grave yard shift" came from St. Augustine. I'd tell the story he told us, but it's very gross. Has to do with the plague.

 

[HopperFan]

I PROMISE to get my son to do it tonigt(probably have to pay him!). I do not even know how to get into the photos on the computer! TRUST me! I hate being computer illiterate and at the mercy of an 18 year old!



Anyone who had teenagers can tell you it is not a pretty sight when a parent has to beg a child to show them something on the computer. I find that the kids really lord it over the parents at least my darling little child does! BUT I will make the sacrifice so you guys can see the photos.

THANK YOU ! Beg him for us I really want to see the photos. I looked and don't have any visitors. Now I found one at the fort in one of the bottom rooms, with a guy I am wondering if he was really there.........don't remember him.........but he probably worked there, just alittle pale.........

 

[Mari annie]

Beautiful place!

We stop on our way to MCO for 3 days, there's a coupon book that we use
travelcoupons.com(red book) they don't mail them out but do have them on their site.
Rates are cheapest M-Thursday's. We always stay in the Historic District, this will be our 5th year. We do this in Feb/April and the Fall.

What religious medals are you talking about? There isn't any store that I can think of that carries them.
There is a Mission of De Hombres? Maybe you can call there? We took the trolly tour near there, but haven't been inside.

There's so much to do if you want any information let me know, send me a message.

We have done all the tourist spots and last April they introduced a ghost tour at Ripley's Museum, great! My teen/older teen had a great time, you go on a trolly tour, of alot of the haunting places there which includes a narrative tour of the hauntings/stories of St Augustine and you are given those heat sensors gadgets (forget the name sorry), and a instant camera incl. in the tour, very interesting, on the end of the tour, you are brought back to Ripley's Museum, after hours, certain areas of the Museum, you can use your heat senors, and supposedly that is where ghosts are. Before it was Ripley's it was a private home and a hotel and supposedly murder(s) and deaths took place there.......
In Feb we are doing the haunted Lighthouse tour.
Our kids are 14 and almost 18 I wouldn't recommend this for young kids.

Happy trails in St Augustine!