Off-Site Venues
St. Johns County has off-site options galore. Set on nature-filled Anastasia Island, the 4,000-seat St. Augustine Amphitheatre offers arts and recreation, plus indoor and outdoor meeting spaces. Another performing arts facility, the 900-seat, elegant Ponte Vedra Concert Hall on scenic highway A1A, can flex to also accommodate 450 theater-style and 140 for a banquet.
Housed in the former circa-1888, Henry Flagler-built Alcazar Hotel, the Lightner Museum, known for fine 19th-century art, can hold 50 to 400 guests in an art-filled, airy reception hall. And in downtown St. Augustine, the Treasury on the Plaza, once a 1927 bank, provides opulent event space for 250.
World Golf Hall of Fame and Museum
A golfing mecca, Florida’s Historic Coast is home to the PGA’s corporate headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach. Its PGA Golf Tour Academy and World Golf Hall of Fame and Museum are in St. Augustine at World Golf Village, as is the (Bill) Murray Brothers’ Caddyshack Restaurant. Along with historic memorabilia, the 35,000-square-foot museum has a 132-yard challenge hole with monthly closest-to-the-hole winners, an 18-hole natural putting course and 13 event spaces.
Each May, the TPC Sawgrass hosts the TPC Championship. Its iconic Stadium Course boasts one of the most difficult holes in the world, the 17th-hole “island green,” and its clubhouse can accommodate 1,000-plus in 13,000 square feet of meeting space.
Tours
St. Augustine’s array of fascinating tours keep attendees and/or spouses well entertained. Showcasing the area’s history, the Pirate Melee begins on a city trolley tour that’s hijacked by pirates, who then add magic and music to a group dinner for 25 or more.
Food plus wine or beer take center stage on the Tasting Tours’ three-hour nibbling and sipping strolls, voted by Travel and Leisure as St. Augustine’s best. Options include a progressive dine-around, culinary team-building for up to 75 and a haunted “frightseeing” tour.
Florida Waters Tours can take 49 guests on ghost cruises or on nonhaunted eco-excursions, dolphin tours and sunset sails.
St. Augustine, Florida
Location: Northeast Florida’s Atlantic Coast
Access: Jacksonville International Airport, Northeast Florida Regional Airport, Daytona International Airport, Orlando International Airport, Interstate 95, U.S. Route 1
Major Meeting Spaces: Sawgrass Marriott Golf Resort and Spa, World Golf Village Renaissance Resort/St. Johns County Convention Center, Hammock Beach Resort, Ponte Vedra Inn and Club, Casa Monica Resort and Spa, Embassy Suites by Hilton St. Augustine Beach Oceanfront Resort (opening August 2018)
Hotel Rooms: 6,312 in St. Augustine and Ponte Vedra
Off-Site Venues: TPC Sawgrass, World Golf Hall of Fame and Museum, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, St. Augustine Amphitheatre, Lightner Museum, Treasury on the Plaza
Contact Info:
St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra and the Beaches Visitors and Convention Bureau
800-418-7529
www.floridashistoriccoast.com
