Best St. Augustine Ghost Tours

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All Eleven Tours

1.5-Hour Haunted Stroll

4.7 2,491 verified reviews

1.5 hours · A Ghostly Encounter

St. Augustine Ghost Tour: A Ghostly Encounter runs through A Ghostly Encounter. Rated 4.7 across 2,491 reviews. Runs 1.5 hours. From $30.

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2.5-Hour Ghost Walk

4.9 36 verified reviews

2.5 hours · Last Ghost Tour

St Augustine's Horrible Hauntings Ghost Tour runs through Last Ghost Tour. Rated 4.9 across 36 reviews. Runs 2.5 hours. From $35.

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1-Hour Watchtower Walk

4.7 12 verified reviews

1 hour · US Ghost Adventures

Wraiths of the Watchtower: Sinister St. Augustine Ghost Tour runs through US Ghost Adventures. Rated 4.7 across 12 reviews. Runs 1 hour. From $27.

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1.5-Hour Dead Walk

4.1 5 verified reviews

1.5 hours · GHOST AUGUSTINE

St. Augustine: Dead Walk Ghost Tour runs through GHOST AUGUSTINE. Rated 4.1 across 5 reviews. Runs 1.5 hours. From $26.

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2-Hour Paranormal Investigation

4.9 88 verified reviews

2 hours · GhoSt Augustine

Haunted Saint Augustine A Paranormal Investigation runs through GhoSt Augustine. Rated 4.9 across 88 reviews. Runs 2 hours. From $30.

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Dixie House Ghost Hunt

4.9 53 verified reviews

2 hours · GhoSt Augustine

Paranormal Investigation in The Dixie House - St. Augustine, FL runs through GhoSt Augustine. Rated 4.9 across 53 reviews. Runs 2 hours. From $59.90.

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Night Among Ghosts Hunt

4.9 55 verified reviews

1 hour 45 minutes

A Night Among Ghosts Investigative Walk. Rated 4.9 across 55 reviews. Runs 1 hour 45 minutes. From $34.

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Open-Air Haunted Trolley

4.2 1,190 verified reviews

1 hour · Historic Tours of America - St Augustine

Ghosts and Gravestones Old Town Trolley Tour of St. Augustine runs through Historic Tours of America - St Augustine. Rated 4.2 across 1,190 reviews. Runs 1 hour. From $36.

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Golf Cart Ghost Tour

4.5 333 verified reviews

1.25 hours · St Augustine Land and Sea Tours

Riding with the Ghosts a Golf Cart Ghost Tour in St Augustine runs through St Augustine Land and Sea Tours. Rated 4.5 across 333 reviews. Runs 1.25 hours. From $39.

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Haunting Hour Pub Crawl

4.1 49 verified reviews

2 hours · Haunting Hour St. Augustine

Spirits with the Spirits haunted pub crawl - drinks included runs through Haunting Hour St. Augustine. Rated 4.1 across 49 reviews. Runs 2 hours. From $59.

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Ghost City Pub Crawl

3.8 39 verified reviews

2 hours · Ghost City Tours

St. Augustine: Haunted Pub Crawl runs through Ghost City Tours. Rated 3.8 across 39 reviews. Runs 2 hours. From $35.

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All Eleven Tours In One Table

• Drinks:
• Spirits With The Spirits includes a free drink at each stop
• Haunted Pub Crawl visits 3 to 4 bars, drinks extra
• Every other tour serves nothing in the fare

The table above lines up all eleven tours side by side: price and rating. A few habits will help you read it well before booking anything.

How To Read The Ratings

A 4.9 and a 4.7 are not the same claim when the review counts differ. Horrible Hauntings sits at 4.9 across 36 reviews, while A Ghostly Encounter sits at 4.7 across 2,491. Nearly two and a half thousand reviews is a large body of verdicts, and a rating that holds up across that many guests tells you something steadier than a near-perfect score from a handful. Dead Walk's 4.1 comes from just 5 reviews, which is an early signal rather than a settled judgment; treat it accordingly and read the live listing before deciding.

The Haunted Pub Crawl's 3.8 is the lowest rating among the eleven, and the listing itself breaks out why: guides score 4.1 of 5 while value for money scores 3.3 of 5. The trolley's 4.2 across 1,190 reviews reflects a lot of experience, second only to A Ghostly Encounter in volume. The two GhoSt Augustine investigations both carry 4.9, across 88 and 53 reviews respectively.

The price column needs one caveat. The price column shows each listing's from-price per person. Prices change by date and group, and the live listing is the authority on what you will pay.

Length And Age Limits

Length ranges wider than most visitors expect. The trolley and Wraiths of the Watchtower are each listed at 1 hour. The golf cart runs 1 hour 15 minutes; A Ghostly Encounter and Dead Walk run 1 hour 30. Night Among Ghosts is listed at 1 hour 45 minutes, though the itinerary allots 2 hours and some reviewers reported outings ran longer, so build in slack. The two investigations and both pub crawls are listed at 2 hours, with one wrinkle: the Spirits With the Spirits description text says a 2.5-hour crawl, so check the live page. Horrible Hauntings, at 2 hours 30 minutes, is the longest walk on the site.

Age limits sort the field quickly. A Ghostly Encounter and Wraiths of the Watchtower describe themselves as family-friendly. The trolley is not recommended for under-13s and children must be accompanied by an adult. Night Among Ghosts has a minimum age of 13, and both pub crawls are adults-only, with Spirits With the Spirits set at 21+. The golf cart allows small kids and infants on laps. For any listing not covered here, the age rules sit on the live listing, not in guesswork.

For a deeper look at how the formats differ before you commit, the walking versus trolley versus pub crawl guide works through the trade-offs, and Is The Ghost Tour Worth It tackles the value question directly.

Three questions narrow eleven tours to one or two candidates faster than any table can: what kind of night you want, how much time you have, and who is coming. Here is the logic behind each question.

Start With The Kind Of Night

The formats do genuinely different things. A walking tour trades stories as you move through the old streets. A ghost hunt puts equipment in your hands and teaches you to test claims. A vehicle tour covers more ground sitting down. A pub crawl pairs the stories with drinks and bar stops.

Then Think About Time

An hour and 2 hours 30 minutes are different commitments. The shortest options are the trolley and Wraiths of the Watchtower, both listed at 1 hour, followed by the golf cart at 1 hour 15. A Ghostly Encounter and Dead Walk sit at 1 hour 30. Night Among Ghosts at 1 hour 45 deserves slack given the itinerary and reviewer reports. The investigations and pub crawls run 2 hours, and Horrible Hauntings takes 2 hours 30, so plan dinner around it rather than after it. Remember the listed start times vary; the listings show 21:00 for Horrible Hauntings and 19:00 for Spirits With the Spirits, and sunset falls between roughly 5:25 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. depending on season, and the timing guide covers the season.

Then Think About Who Is Coming

Age rules eliminate options fast. Bringing children? A Ghostly Encounter and Wraiths of the Watchtower both bill themselves as family-friendly, and the golf cart takes small kids with infants on laps. The trolley is not recommended for under-13s. Night Among Ghosts sets a minimum age of 13. Both pub crawls are out for anyone underage: Spirits With the Spirits requires 21, and the Haunted Pub Crawl needs valid photo ID for bar entry by state law, a passport for visitors from outside the US.

Mobility matters too. A Ghostly Encounter is listed as wheelchair and pushchair accessible, and Spirits With the Spirits is listed as wheelchair accessible. The two investigations, the trolley and the golf cart are not wheelchair accessible. Horrible Hauntings asks for moderate physical fitness and is not wheelchair accessible, though pushchairs and service animals are fine there. The kids guide covers family choices in more depth.

Group size follows from the format. The investigations cap at 12 and 9 travellers, the golf cart at 10, Night Among Ghosts at 13 and the pub crawls at 10, while the trolley carries up to 30 and A Ghostly Encounter up to 25. Small caps usually mean a more interactive night; big groups mean a livelier procession through the streets.

What Guests Say

The quotes below come from guests who booked through Viator and GetYourGuide and wrote about their nights on the operators' own listings. This site ran none of these tours and wrote none of these reviews. Read them as booked travellers' verdicts, alongside the ratings and review counts above.

These are reviews left by paying guests on the booking pages for each tour, not reviews of this website. The wording is exactly as the reviewer wrote it.

Walking Ghost Tours, One Hour To Two And A Half

A walking ghost tour in St. Augustine is a guided evening stroll through the oldest continuously inhabited European-founded city in the United States, founded in 1565. The four walks compared here differ more than their shared format suggests. A Ghostly Encounter runs 1 hour 30 minutes with up to 25 travellers, Horrible Hauntings stretches to 2 hours 30 minutes with a cap of 22, the Wraiths of the Watchtower walk covers about a mile in a single hour, and Dead Walk runs 1 hour 30 minutes with a paranormal photo contest thrown in. Some lean on route and landmarks, others on the telling itself. Group sizes, accessibility and tone vary too, so the details below matter when choosing.

Horrible Hauntings

At 2 hours 30 minutes this is the longest walk on the site, and it earns that length with a darker tone. It scores 4.9 across 36 reviews on Viator, which is a high rating on a smaller base. The listing shows a 21:00 start at 3 Aviles Street, in front of the Spanish Military Hospital Museum, and the tour ends where it began. Groups max out at 22 travellers, and the guide is named Charlie on the listing.

Rather than a broad sweep of landmarks, the operator promises the city's lost murder victims and evil deeds, backed by ghost photos from a private collection and what the listing calls possible evidence of the paranormal. Guides tell the stories; the framing here follows the operator's copy rather than verified history.

Physical demands are higher than most: the listing specifies a moderate physical fitness level and says the tour is not wheelchair accessible, though pushchairs are fine and service animals are allowed. Check the listing for age limits before booking children. The from-price is $35 per person; the live listing for Horrible Hauntings shows the price for your date. For travelers who want depth and endurance over a quick loop, this is the walk to weigh first.

Wraiths Of The Watchtower

The shortest tour on the site at exactly 1 hour, run by US Ghost Adventures and sold on GetYourGuide. It holds 4.7 across 12 reviews, a solid score on a small sample. The walk covers about a mile, meets at 215 St. George Street, and moves through a named set of stops: Casa de la Paz, The Casablanca Inn, Harry's Seafood Bar and Grille, and Treasury on the Plaza, all cited as story locations on the listing.

The price is $27 per person, as read on the GYG listing. That, plus the hour-long runtime, makes it the easiest tour to slot into an evening that already has dinner plans. The listing calls it family-friendly and suitable for all ages.

Practical notes: the tour runs rain or shine, so dress for the weather. Smoking, intoxication and video recording are not allowed. Bring comfortable shoes, weather-appropriate clothing and an ID, with a copy accepted. Tips are optional. Check the listing of Wraiths of the Watchtower for the group cap. Stories at the stops are told as reported hauntings, in the operator's words.

Dead Walk

This GHOST AUGUSTINE tour runs 1 hour 30 minutes from 162 St. George Street, suite 19, the Heritage Walk Mall entrance, though the listing says the exact spot varies by time, so confirm before heading out. It scores 4.1 across 5 reviews. Treat that as an early signal only: five reviews is too small a base to judge an operator by, and the score may shift as more come in.

The pitch on the listing is the forgotten, oldest, darkest part of town: haunted tales of lesser-known haunts, a guided walk through the quiet parts of town, and a photo contest for anything paranormal caught on film. A K2 meter for paranormal testing is included, which is more hands-on than most walks offer. As always, the hauntings are stories the operator tells, not verified events.

The price is $26 per person from the GYG listing. Bring comfortable shoes, a camera and water. Smoking, alcohol and drugs are not allowed. Check the Dead Walk listing for the current group cap and age guidance. It suits travelers who want an offbeat, quieter route at a low confirmed price.

Choosing between the four comes down to time, tone and tolerance for crowds. For families and first-timers, A Ghostly Encounter offers the biggest review base and a route built on cemeteries and the old gates. Horrible Hauntings rewards those who want a long, dark evening of murder stories. Wraiths of the Watchtower fits a tight schedule with a $27 price, and Dead Walk pairs a $26 price with quiet streets and a K2 meter. More on framing the choice appears in the walking vs trolley vs pub crawl guide.

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The Open-Air Trolley And The Golf Cart Ghost Tour

Riding beats walking when legs tire, rain threatens, or the group spans three generations. A vehicle covers more ground than any walking route, trades intimacy for reach, and adds a layer of theater the pavement cannot match. St. Augustine offers two wheeled options: a trolley built for the occasion and a small golf cart threading streets a bus cannot enter. Each suits a different kind of traveller, and neither requires comfortable shoes for the reasons a walk does.

The Open-Air Trolley

Ghosts and Gravestones Trolley holds a 4.2 rating across 1,190 reviews, the second largest review count of any tour compared on this page. The listed duration is 1 hour. Historic Tours of America operates it and bills it as the city's original frightseeing tour, aboard an open-air Trolley of the Doomed that passes spots with a reputation for hauntings, in the telling of the operator.

Departures leave from the New Welcome Center at 27 San Marco Avenue. Check-in opens 20 minutes before departure, and another line on the listing advises arriving 15 minutes early to secure a seat, so plan to be there a quarter hour ahead at minimum. The tour ends back at the meeting point. Along the way it makes a stop at Potter's Wax Museum.

The capacity is 30 travellers. The listing is explicit that the tour is not recommended for children under 13, and anyone under that age who does ride must be accompanied by an adult. It runs in all weather, so dress for whatever the evening brings. Wheelchair access is not available, and only assistance animals are allowed on board.

Local taxes are included in the fare. Gratuities, food and drink are not. The price changes by date, so tap through to the current listing for the figure on your evening. A fuller writeup sits in the Ghosts and Gravestones guide, and readers weighing a trolley against other formats can compare formats in walking versus trolley versus pub crawl.

The Golf Cart Ghost Tour

Riding With the Ghosts golf cart carries a 4.5 rating across 333 reviews. St Augustine Land and Sea Tours runs it for 1 hour 15 minutes, departing from 150 Charlotte Street on the east side of Constitution Plaza by the Slave Market and returning there.

The group is small: a maximum of 10 travellers, seated three per row. Riders must be able to step in and out of the cart, and infants sit on laps. Infants on laps make it the tour here that says plainly it takes the very young, unlike the trolley's under-13 caution.

Per the listing, the cart reaches paranormal sites such as Flagler College and the Castillo de San Marcos, the 17th-century Spanish fort on the bay. Guides tell the stories; the fort itself closes to visitors by early evening, so ghost tours view it from outside after dark. The stone walls, the story goes on these tours, carry reported apparitions of Spanish soldiers and a woman in white.

Audio and written guides come in multiple languages, useful for international visitors. Complimentary photos are included, and a certified city guide and storyteller leads the ride. Gratuities are not included. If the operator cancels for poor weather, you are offered another date or a full refund. For the price on your date, see the current listing. Background on the format is in the golf cart tour guide.

Trolley Or Golf Cart?

The trolley is the bigger production: up to 30 travellers, an open-air ride, a wax museum stop and the larger review base behind it. The golf cart is smaller, capped at 10, with multilingual guides and infants allowed on laps. Choose the trolley for the bigger group and the longer review record; choose the cart for a smaller ride with complimentary photos. One piece of background: since July 2026 the city has capped franchisees running vehicles of 11 or fewer passengers at 15 citywide, a rule change that touches cart operators, though nothing suggests it affects how you book.

What Does A St. Augustine Ghost Tour Cost?

Every tour on this page sells through Viator or GetYourGuide, and the listing shows the price per person for the specific date you select. From-prices run from $26 (Dead Walk) to $59.90 (Dixie House) per person, and the live listing shows the exact figure, because rates shift with date, day of week and group makeup. This site takes no bookings and no payments; the transaction happens on the operator's listing page.

What The Ticket Usually Covers

The listings spell out inclusions, and they vary more than you might expect. On the ghost hunts, equipment comes with the ticket: the Paranormal Investigation includes two tools to track activity, the Dixie House investigation supplies a wide array of ghost hunting gear plus thermal cameras, and Dead Walk includes a K2 meter for paranormal testing.

On the walking side, Horrible Hauntings includes ghost photos from the operator's private collection. The golf cart tour includes complimentary photos plus audio and written guides in multiple languages. The trolley fare includes local taxes. Spirits With the Spirits includes a free drink and exclusive discounts at each of its four venues, per the listing title. Every tour includes the guide.

What Costs Extra

Gratuities sit outside the ticket on most listings: the trolley, the golf cart and both pub crawls note gratuities or tips separately, Wraiths of the Watchtower calls tips optional, and Night Among Ghosts says gratuities are appreciated. Food and drinks are extra on the trolley and on the Haunted Pub Crawl, where the entire bar tab is yours. Coffee and tea are listed as not included on the Paranormal Investigation.

Smaller add-ons can matter. A Ghostly Encounter rents ghost hunting tools for $5, listed as an extra. The Dixie House investigation is recorded by mounted video cameras and uses thermal cameras, and at checkout you can pay to have the investigation videos and thermal shots sent to you. You may also bring your own equipment to that one.

Parking And Getting There

The Historic Downtown Parking Facility at 1 Cordova Street, by the Visitor Information Center, is the practical answer for most evenings. It is open 24 hours with about 1,200 spaces. The off-peak rate from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. is $5 per entry, which fits a ghost tour neatly; the peak rate from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. is $20. City pay stations are mostly enforced until 9 p.m. The Castillo front lot charges $2.50 per hour. Nothing on this site needs a car once you park: the historic district is compact, most meeting points sit on or near St. George, Aviles, Charlotte, Cordova or Granada Streets, and the streets are cobbled and uneven, so comfortable shoes earn their keep.

Free Cancellation

All eleven tours carry free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start for a full refund, in the standard Viator and GYG listing wording. Inside 24 hours, no refund. Several listings also offer a different date or a refund when the operator cancels for bad weather or too few travellers, and the golf cart listing explicitly promises another date or full refund if it cancels for poor weather. A Ghostly Encounter runs rain or shine, delaying the start about 20 minutes for lightning and rescheduling to the next evening if it persists. Wraiths of the Watchtower also runs rain or shine. Hurricane season runs June 1 to November 30, peaking August through October, so the weather clause is worth reading on whatever you book in those months. More context is in the best time guide and is the ghost tour worth it.

Where The Tours Start

Almost every tour here starts on or near a small set of downtown streets: St. George Street, Aviles Street, Charlotte Street, Cordova Street and Granada Street, plus San Marco Avenue for the trolley and S. Dixie Highway for the Dixie House investigation. That clustering is a genuine convenience. You can park once and reach most meeting points on foot. Use the map below and the meeting-point picker beneath it to plan the walk from your hotel or parking spot before you book, because the right tour is often simply the one that starts nearest you at the hour you want.

Meeting Points By Street

Showing all 17 mapped points around St. Augustine Historic District, grouped into four sets. Choosing a set on the map filter narrows the list below and dims the pins for every tour outside it.

Arriving On Time

The trolley is the only tour here with a stated check-in window: 20 minutes before departure, and another line on the listing says arrive 15 minutes early to secure a seat. Treat the stricter number as the working rule. For every other tour, check your confirmation for the reporting time, because the listings do not publish one.

Start times cluster in the evening. Sunset shapes the mood: about 7:20 p.m. EDT in late September, about 8:30 p.m. around the June solstice, and as early as 5:25 to 5:37 p.m. around the December solstice, so a winter tour can begin in full dark while a summer one starts in daylight. Confirmed listed starts are 21:00 for Horrible Hauntings and 19:00 for Spirits With the Spirits, and the Haunted Pub Crawl lists about 9 pm on some nights. Everything else varies, so the live listing is the source of truth for your date.

Parking And Walking Between Stops

The Historic Downtown Parking Facility at 1 Cordova Street, by the Visitor Information Center, is the practical answer for most tours: it is open 24 hours with about 1,200 spaces, an off-peak rate of $5 per entry from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., and a peak rate of $20 from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. For an evening tour, arriving after 5 p.m. usually lands you in the cheaper window. City pay stations are mostly enforced until 9 p.m., and the Castillo front lot charges $2.50 per hour if you are combining a daytime fort visit with an evening walk.

Nothing on this site needs a car once you are parked. The historic district is compact and walkable, and most meeting points sit within a short stroll of each other. Expect cobbles: the listings themselves call out cobblestone streets, so allow a few extra minutes in uneven shoes and do not plan a tight connection between two tours without a buffer.