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GalvestonThirty-two miles of beach, a Victorian downtown, and a Texas town that never quite forgot 1900

A Gulf Coast island fifty miles south of Houston with thirty-two miles of beach, the Pleasure Pier, the Bishop's Palace, and the Victorian Strand district that survived the 1900 hurricane.

30+Vacation rentals
32Miles of Gulf coastline
78°FAverage year-round high
Mar – OctBest season

A Texas Gulf Coast microsite

Welcome to GalvestonThirty-two miles of beach an hour from Houston, a downtown that survived the 1900 hurricane, and a rollercoaster out over the surf. Galveston is the Texas getaway most Texans take for granted.

Galveston runs twenty-seven miles down the Gulf Coast — the East End holds the Victorian Strand, the seventeen-foot Seawall, and the Pleasure Pier; the West End opens into Pirate's Beach, Sea Isle, and Terramar, where the houses sit on stilts and the dogs run off-leash.

Our rentals cover the whole island — Pirate's Beach stilted homes with private beach gates, 1900 Storm-Survivor cottages walkable to The Strand, Seawall condos with rooftop pools, and raised bungalows nine blocks from East Beach.

Galveston stays