Fountain of Youth Gift Shop — Local services in Saint Augustine

The Fountain of Youth property was informative and exciting. As a Florida homeschool parent I was elated to take my daughter and best friend during our recent trip to Jacksonville and St Augustine. As we do at any museum, exhibits, etc we headed to the Gift Shop to stock up on cool merch, I LOVE supporting local businesses through their merchandise. It’s a crazy mix of items, more so what you would find in the beach gift shops throughout the US. We grabbed a couple items that I know we wouldn’t find anywhere else ($80 worth of items between us) Honestly I am giving such a low star review because of Patty, the lack of customerservice and attitude was disgusting. Both my best friend and I didn’t want to carry a purse and opted to grab $100 bill each and our phones for Apple Pay. Checking out separately our bills were about $40 each when I went to hand Patty my hundred dollar bill she stated that they did not have change, which is completely understandable and I was pulling up my Apple Pay when she threw my hundred dollar bill at me across the counter. Honestly I was ready to leave my items and walk out but my best friend grabbed my stuff and just paid all together with her hundred dollar bill. I will definitely visit the fountain of youth again as it has a great history however I will never spend another dollar in the gift shop. It was the follow up attitude, the lack of care for customers, and the disorganized staff that will keep us away from the gift...

The Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park is a privately owned 15-acre (61,000 m2) park in St. Augustine, Florida, located along Hospital Creek, part of the Intracoastal Waterway. It has been touted as the likely 1513 Florida landing site of Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon, although no evidence has been found to substantiate this claim. Recent research by amateur historian Douglas Peck has placed another possible landing site in the vicinity of Melbourne Beach in Brevard County.2 The park contains a well claimed to be the freshwater source referred to by Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas in his Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las Islas y Tierra Firme del mar Océano and supposedly sought by Ponce de Leon, but there is no supporting evidence.[4] Archaeological excavations made by Dr. Kathleen Deagan on the park's grounds in the 1990s uncovered remains of the first Spanish settlement and its fortifications in St....

Not worth the money. I bought 4 bottles of fountain of youth water bottled. ( small blue bottles )Could buy it already wrapped in newspaper to give to family members as a gift . When they unwrapped it was marked souvenir only! Also saw bottles that had made in China on bottom. . Also two women worked in gift shop not friendly. Nice to see peacocks, but that’s not why we went. I vote fountain of youth bottom of list & a rip off. Should have been included in price of trolley stop! Not...