Apartments, rooms and studios for rent in Texel

Texel is the largest Wadden island and a single municipality of 13,545 inhabitants spread over seven villages, with Den Burg as the center. To rent in Texel you need a year-round home on an island where many houses are let to holidaymakers, so long-term rentals are rare. RentHunter puts Texel apartments and houses from the major rental sites in one place, so you can react on the day a year-round home becomes available.

The renters who land here are mostly people with work on the island: nurses and teachers, staff of the hotels and restaurants in De Koog, farmers' and fishermen's families, and islanders coming back after their studies. Mainlanders who rent in Texel accept that every trip off the island starts with the ferry to Den Helder.

• Family houses in Den Burg and the villages Most year-round homes on Texel are houses: terraced rows on the edge of Den Burg and detached houses with a garden in Oosterend, Den Hoorn and De Cocksdorp. Few of them come up for private rent, so check houses in Texel often and read every detail of a listing, because the same house can be offered as a holiday home in summer.
• Apartments around the Den Burg center An apartment on Texel usually means a flat above a shop or a small block in Den Burg, within walking distance of the supermarkets and the shopping street Weverstraat. A Texel apartment suits singles and couples without a car. Look at apartments in Texel and react the same day: the island has few apartments, and an apartment with a year-round contract rarely stays online for long.
• Seasonal staff rooms in De Koog Summer work on Texel often comes with a room: hotels, campsites and restaurants in De Koog house their own staff from spring to autumn. These kamers end with the season and are not a route to a permanent address, so treat them as a way to start looking for an apartment or house on the island.

Texel feels like a small town in winter and a busy resort in summer. Den Burg holds the town hall, the schools and most shops, De Koog lives from the beach, Oudeschild from its harbor, and De Cocksdorp sits at the northern tip near the lighthouse.

Texel connects to the mainland through the ferry between 't Horntje and Den Helder, a crossing of about 20 minutes with departures roughly every hour. From Den Helder station, direct trains run toward Alkmaar and Amsterdam. Islanders who work on the mainland often weigh up an apartment in Den Helder itself, or further south in Schagen and the villages of Hollands Kroon, where more rental homes come up.

Daily life on Texel runs by bike: from Den Burg most villages are a short ride, and the dunes and the North Sea beach start at De Koog. Shops, the doctor and secondary school are in Den Burg, so a home there or in a village close to it keeps a family's week simple. In winter many restaurants in De Koog close and the island becomes quiet.