St Augustine - weekend or weekdays?

[skb 123]

Thinking of staying a night or two in St Augustine during our August visit. Any opinions on which days of the week are best? Expecting it would be busy all week so thinking more along the lines of something only on a particular day that's not to be missed, eg a market?

Thanks.

[tapley]

We have been there during both and found little difference other than some of the B and Bs had slightly cheaper prices during the week. However not been there during August only May or Sept

[ManCity]

I think the ceremony in the Fort where people in costume demonstrate firing the cannon may be only done at weekends. Details will be on its website.

[IndianaMac]

We stopped a Thursday thru Saturday in our August holiday last year (so Thursday and Friday nights, driving back to Orlando Saturday).

Not sure about things only being available on weekends versus weekdays, but it's a tourist town, so should be pretty much 24/7. The Distillery Tour/Tasting and San Sebastian Winery Tour/Tasting that we did are showing as weekends and weekdays certainly.

The Historic Town is a collection of shops, bars, restaurants, etc, so I'd imagine the only thing that may be slightly different are Sunday hours?

The only thing we were wary of were whether the restaurants would be as child-friendly as Orlando (we were thinking particularly for the Friday night, weekend revelry), as our little one was eleven at the time... didn't seem any more raucous to be honest (ate in A1A AleWorks the Thursday night in the Historic District, and an out-of town Longhorn for the Friday where there was a Chevy Camaro SS decked out in a lairy Stars 'n' Stripes and Eagle Sheriff's livery!).

If you're driving, I'd recommend the A1A Historic Coast Road as opposed to the freeway (we hopped across to Ormond Beach, then up the A1A from there) - not that much longer, and makes for a beautiful drive.

[IndianaMac]

Originally Posted by ManCity

I think the ceremony in the Fort where people in costume demonstrate firing the cannon may be only done at weekends. Details will be on its website.

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It was certainly done on a Friday when we were there last year... not sure about other days?