Lady's Mile Holiday Park
Lady's Mile is a family-run holiday park on the A379 at the southern edge of Dawlish in south Devon, a self-contained site of static caravans, lodges, glamping and touring pitches spread around a central pool and clubhouse complex. Families come for two heated pools with indoor and outdoor waterslides, entertainment that runs all year and a mile-long Blue Flag beach at Dawlish Warren a short walk away.
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Is it worth it?
The quick read before the detail: who the park suits, what you get for the money and the facts to skim first.
Lady's Mile is a family-run holiday park at the southern edge of Dawlish in south Devon, owned by Jason Jeffery, who also runs the nearby Oakcliff park. It's self-catering, so you stay in a caravan, lodge or glamping tent, or on a touring pitch, and cook for yourselves, with the pools, restaurant, clubhouse and entertainment on site rather than laid on as a package. The heart of it is a central complex with two heated pools, the Oceans restaurant and bar and a clubhouse, and the accommodation spreads out around it up a gentle slope.
It's a busy, activity-led park rather than a quiet coastal one. There are indoor and outdoor waterslides, a bike pump track, playgrounds, soft play and evening shows twelve months a year, and the beach at Dawlish Warren is a walk away rather than on the doorstep. The children's clubs are entertainment, not childcare, so your children are with you through the day. You'll get the most from it if you want plenty on site for a range of ages and you're happy to bring your own baby kit and, in a caravan, your own towels.
Best for
You want a self-catering base near a Blue Flag beach, two heated pools with slides and plenty on site for a range of ages, with the space of a caravan or a lodge with a hot tub.
Maybe not for
You want a hotel with meals and childcare laid on, a room steps from the sand or a flat, compact site.
Best ages
Babies upwards. Splash zones and a warm indoor pool for little ones, waterslides and a pump track for older children; the clubs are entertainment, not childcare.
What stands out
Heated pools the park rates among the warmest in the South West, entertainment that runs all year and a private hot tub with every lodge, mini lodge and safari tent.
What to check
Whether your accommodation includes towels, how the pool booking works in the school holidays and cot availability if you can't bring one.
Where is it?
On the A379 at the southern edge of Dawlish in south Devon, close to Dawlish Warren beach and about 15 miles (24 km) from Exeter Airport.
Quick facts for families
What the park is like
Where it sits, how the site is laid out and what getting around a large holiday park means with young children.
Lady's Mile is a self-contained park on Exeter Road, the A379 coastal road that runs along the southern edge of Dawlish. The site sits on a gently sloping piece of ground. The main facilities are gathered in a central complex, the two pools, Oceans restaurant and bar, the clubhouse and the entertainment venue, with the caravan pitches and lodges spreading out from there and the touring and camping fields around the edges. It's family-run and independent rather than part of a chain, and the park describes itself as multi-award winning.
The park is open all year, which is unusual for a Devon holiday park and means the indoor pool, clubhouse and evening entertainment run through the winter as well as the summer. Vehicles keep to a 5mph speed limit on the roads within the park. There's a convenience store on site for essentials, open from Easter to November, so a low-season stay means bringing more with you or shopping in Dawlish.
Getting around means covering the slope. The park doesn't set out how suitable its paths are for a pushchair, and a holiday park is usually a mix of tarmac roads, grass and decking, so expect some uneven ground and a push uphill between an outer pitch and the central complex. If a shorter, flatter walk to the pool matters, ask about a unit near the middle of the park when you book, since some of the mini lodges sit close to the pool complex.
Where you stay
Every accommodation type, what comes with each and which suit a family with a baby or toddler.
The accommodation splits into four broad groups: the roomy 20ft lodges, the more compact 12-14ft mini lodges, the mid-range 12ft static caravans and glamping in safari tents or a couples' pod. Within each group the park grades units by finish, using its own tiers of Standard, Select, Plus, Premier and Platinum, so a Plus or Platinum unit is a higher-grade version of the same type rather than a bigger one. The park defines units by type rather than floor area, so the table below gives the type, bedrooms and how many each sleeps, along with the two things that change the practical decision most, whether there's a hot tub and whether towels are included.
| Accommodation | Type | Sleeps | Hot tub and towels |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alder | 20ft Lodge | 4 bed, up to 8 | Private hot tub; towels included |
| Hornbeam (Plus) | 20ft Lodge | 2 bed, up to 4 | Private hot tub; towels included |
| Meadow 2 Bed | 20ft Lodge | 2 bed, sleeps 4 | Private hot tub; towels included |
| Meadow 3 Bed | 20ft Lodge | 3 bed, up to 6 | Private hot tub; towels included |
| Silver Birch (Plus) | 20ft Lodge | 2 bed, up to 4 | Private hot tub; towels included |
| Firs (Plus, Premier) | 12-14ft Mini Lodge | 3 bed, up to 6 | Private hot tub; towels included |
| Ivy (Plus, Premier, Platinum) | 12-14ft Mini Lodge | 2 bed, up to 4 | Private hot tub; towels included |
| Juniper (Premier, Platinum) | 12-14ft Mini Lodge | 3 bed, up to 6 | Private hot tub; towels included |
| Sycamore (Standard, Select, Plus, Premier) | 12-14ft Mini Lodge | 2 to 3 bed, up to 4 to 6 | Private hot tub; towels included |
| Cherry | 12ft Static caravan | 4 bed, up to 8 | No hot tub; towels not included |
| Chestnut (Plus, Premier) | 12ft Static caravan | 2 bed, up to 4 | No hot tub; towels not included |
| Accessible caravan | 12ft Static caravan | 2 bed, up to 4 | Adapted; towels not included |
| Three-bed caravans | 12ft Static caravan | 3 bed, up to 6 | No hot tub; towels not included |
| Safari tents | Glamping tent | 2 or 3 bed, up to 4 or 6 | Private hot tub, log burner; towels included |
| The Conker | Glamping pod, for couples | 1 bed, sleeps 2 | Private hot tub and infrared sauna; breakfast included |
| Touring and camping pitches | Pitch | Up to 8 | Bring your own; no linen or towels |
The 20ft lodges are the largest and most spacious, and every one comes with a private hot tub. They run from the two-bedroom Hornbeam and Silver Birch up to the four-bedroom Alder, which sleeps up to eight and is pitched at larger families or two families sharing. A couple of the three-bedroom lodges add outdoor decking with a picnic bench or a rooftop deck with sun loungers. The 12-14ft mini lodges are more compact but still include a private hot tub, and they cover the same family sizes: Ivy sleeps up to four, Firs and Juniper sleep up to six, and Sycamore has the widest spread of grades of any mini lodge, from Standard through Select and Plus to Premier, with two or three bedrooms sleeping four to six and a centre-lounge layout available on some units.
The 12ft static caravans sit on a narrower body and are the most affordable way in for families. They come with a TV, central heating and double glazing, and the kitchen has an oven and hob, a fridge and freezer, a microwave and a separate dining table, with some sitting on decking with a picnic bench. There's no hot tub with a caravan, and towels aren't included, so you pack your own. Cherry is the largest at four bedrooms, sleeping up to eight, and Chestnut is a two-bedroom for up to four.
An accessible caravan is available, a two-bedroom for up to four with a ramp to the doorway, sliding doors to most rooms, a wheelchair-accessible bedroom, a bathroom with toilet handrails and a shower seat, lower worktops and wider corridors. It's booked by phone on 01626 863411 rather than online. For glamping, the safari tents sleep up to four or six and come with a private hot tub, a log burner and towels. The Conker is a one-bedroom pod with a private hot tub, an infrared sauna and breakfast included, marketed for couples rather than families.
The touring and camping side has three named hard-standing super pitches: Haldon View, with the widest outlook; Meadow Super Pitch, closest to the central complex; and Top Meadow Super Pitch, the only one open all year, with the other two seasonal. Beyond those there are four fields of grass pitches where you pick your own spot, plus Electric Grass camping pitches with hook-up laid on. All of them take up to eight people. Pitches are unallocated and first-come, first-served, so groups travelling together can't reserve pitches next to each other. Linen and towels aren't provided for touring or camping, and some of the grass fields close in the quieter months.
For choosing with young children, the main decision is a caravan against a lodge. A caravan's fitted kitchen handles bottles, purées and meals at a toddler's timings, and it's the cheaper way in. A lodge or mini lodge gives you separate bedrooms, which the park itself frames as the useful thing for families, letting you put children to bed early in one room while the adults stay in another, and it adds the hot tub. The park sets its own minimum age for the hot tubs at 8, which is stricter than the usual safety guidance, so a hot tub is more of an evening treat for older children than something toddlers will use. Barbecues are allowed if they sit on a stand at least 50cm off the ground and not on decking, with no fire pits or wood-fuelled open fires.
Pools and water
The two pools, the splash zones and the inflatable sessions, plus how booking and supervision work.
Two heated pools sit at the centre of the park, and the pool warmth is the thing the park is best known for, with its own claim to have the warmest pools in the South West. The indoor pool is heated and open all year, with a flume, a covered water slide. It runs from 10am to 6pm daily, closing between 1:15pm and 2pm for cleaning. It has unisex changing rooms with cubicles, toilets and baby changers, lockers that take a refundable pound coin and poolside showers. The pool won UK Holiday Park Pool of the Year in 2018 and a Gold Standard award at the UK Pool and Spa Awards.
The outdoor pool is also heated and adds water slides. It keeps the same 10am to 6pm hours, weather permitting, with the same midday closure, and there's a shower block next to it with private showers, toilets and sinks, plus sun loungers but no lockers. It's seasonal: the park opens it from the end of May to the last Saturday of the Devon school summer holidays, which usually falls in early September but shifts by a few days each year. For younger children there are children's splash zones for paddling, though their depths aren't published, so ask the park if the exact shallow depth matters for a toddler.
The park also runs Commando Run sessions in the indoor pool, an inflatable obstacle course with exclusive use of the flume, described as good for younger swimmers. They're open to guests and day visitors, they need booking, spaces are limited and there's an extra charge on top of standard pool access. There's an infrared sauna listed by the pool, though the park's own pages don't line up on whether a sauna is currently open, so check its availability when you book rather than counting on it. A pool hoist serves both the indoor and outdoor pools with no prior notice needed, and there's step-free access from the changing rooms.
If you're staying on the park, the pool is included in your booking. In the school holidays you book a session, released daily from 9:30am through the Lady's Mile app on a first-come basis, since capacity is limited at busy times; outside the holidays you just need your wristband. Day visitors pay £5 a session for an adult aged 18 or over and £4 for a child aged 3 to 17, with under-fours swimming free on weekdays and under-twos free at weekends (prices last checked July 2026, and can change). On supervision, children under eight and anyone who isn't a competent swimmer must be with an adult at all times, there's a limit of two children per adult in the pool, and under-eights are asked to keep their head above water. A Dip 'n' Dine package, bookable daily from 10am to 6pm through Oceans, pairs a pool session with a meal if you want to run the two together: £18.95 for an adult buys the pool session plus any item from the menu at its normal price, and £11.45 for a child buys the session plus a kids' main or carvery plate and a drink, though not a dessert, with a £5 a head upgrade to burgers and grills on either (prices last checked July 2026).
Food and drink
Because the park is self-catering, most meals are cooked in your own kitchen, but there's a proper choice on site if you don't want to. Oceans Restaurant and Bar is the main venue, in the central complex, a contemporary family-friendly place doing breakfast, a lighter lunch, a full main menu and a Sunday carvery, with burgers and grills, pizza and noodle dishes on the menu and a dog-friendly section inside. Its Piano Bar handles breakfast and coffee, and the Main Bar runs from 9am to 11pm Tuesday to Thursday and from 8:30am to 11pm Friday to Monday. Breakfast runs from 8:30am on Monday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and from 9am Tuesday to Thursday, following the bar hours, and the main menu runs daily from midday to 9pm. The Sunday carvery, served from midday to 4pm, does three meat choices with fresh vegetables, roast potatoes and gravy: £18.95 for an adult, £16.45 for a Big Kids portion and £11.45 for a child under 12, with a £15.95 nut roast and an £8.95 vegetable carvery for anyone not eating meat (prices last checked July 2026, and can change).
In summer the Marquee Bar opens outdoors, pet-friendly and serving the Oceans menu, running daily in late May, on Saturdays through June and July, then daily from late July to the end of August, open from 5pm to 10pm on weekdays and midday to 10pm at weekends when it's running, always weather permitting. New for the 2026 season is a fish and chip shop doing freshly cooked fish and chips on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings in season. You can also order a takeaway, including pizza, through the Lady's Mile app and collect it in about ten minutes, with pizza available until 4:30pm on Sundays. Takeaway prices are set by the park and change, so check the current menu when you book.
On what the food is actually like, reviews we've read are consistently positive about Oceans, praising the value, the quality and how quickly food comes, with the teriyaki noodles, a bourbon-glaze burger and the pizzas all singled out and the online collection called quick. On the park's embedded Google reviews Oceans sits around 4.2 out of 5 from a couple of hundred ratings (checked mid-2026). The park markets Oceans as a top-rated Dawlish restaurant, though that's its own billing rather than an independent ranking. On TripAdvisor it sits at 4.0 out of 5, around 36th of 56 Dawlish restaurants, so it's better judged on what diners say than on the label.
The beach
Dawlish Warren, how far it is and what the walk involves, then the wider stretch of the south Devon coast.
The park's beach is Dawlish Warren, a mile-long sandy beach that holds a Blue Flag, the mark of a clean, well-managed beach, currently for summer 2026. It's more than a beach: the Warren is a National Nature Reserve with over 600 flowering plant species and an internationally important spot for birdwatching, a protected site with rock pools to explore, and at the busy end it has go-karts, rides, water sports and amusements. Dawlish Warren Life Saving Club provides voluntary lifeguard cover in season and on busy bank holidays, alongside the RNLI.
It's a walk rather than a doorstep, though. The park's own copy puts it at a little less than a mile, and one family blog describes it as about a 20 minute walk, but the A379 runs between the park and the sand, so you have a road to cross. With a pushchair and small children that's worth planning around rather than treating as a straight seafront stroll. The sea here warms slowly and stays cool even at the height of summer, as it does all along this coast, so it's more paddling than long swims for little ones.
For a change of beach there are others within a drive. Coryton Cove is a secluded, free cove with rock pools within walking distance of Dawlish itself. Further afield are Teignmouth's sandy Back Beach, Ness Cove at Shaldon, Watcombe, the two miles of sand at Exmouth, Blackpool Sands and the historic sweep of Slapton Sands, all of them a drive rather than a walk.
For the little onesBabies and toddlers
The most important thing to know for a family with a baby or toddler is that the accommodation is self-catering, so you bring the baby kit you need. Cots, travel cots, highchairs, baby-food warming and sterilisers aren't listed, so plan to pack your own travel cot and highchair, and phone the park before booking if you can't. A fitted kitchen in the caravans and lodges makes formula, purées and meals at a toddler's timings straightforward whatever you decide.
On the park itself the splash zones are the strongest draw for the youngest, plain paddling areas whose depths aren't published, and the warm indoor pool suits a nervous small swimmer. There are baby changers in the indoor pool changing rooms, and day-visitor swimming is free for under-fours on weekdays and under-twos at weekends. If accessibility is a factor, the accessible caravan and the accessible play equipment, a swing and a roundabout in the outdoor play area, are worth knowing about.
One thing to be clear on is childcare, because it isn't offered. The children's clubs at Lady's Mile are entertainment, not a staffed crèche, there's no registered childcare, in-room babysitting isn't advertised, and children remain the parents' responsibility at all times. There's no daytime kids' club with set ages, hours or ratios, so plan on being with your children through the day rather than getting a break from them.
Things to do
The play areas, clubs, evening shows and the gym, then the days out the park's position puts within reach.
Away from the pools there's a good amount on the park, and much of it is aimed at older children as well as toddlers. Outdoors there's a bike pump track, a looped track with bumps and berms for bikes and scooters, plus an adventure playground that includes the accessible swing and roundabout. Indoors there's soft play and an arcade with machines. The park's own shops are the convenience store for essentials and Rocky's Fun Shop, a sweets and toys shop named after Rocky the Raccoon, the park mascot.
The children's entertainment sits mostly in the evening. Rockstar's Fun time is the children's slot, with prizes and a visit from Rocky the Raccoon and the Treehouse Friends characters, part of an evening programme that runs twelve months a year in the clubhouse and, in summer, the Marquee Bar. A typical evening runs through adult cash bingo, the children's Rockstar's Fun time, an adult competition, a Star Act Showtime with the resident team or a visiting act, then a disco, with the schedule on the Lady's Mile app. Children's parties are bookable, with a buffet and a decorated table included on most packages. The three pottery parties need a minimum of ten people and run from a Pottery Memory Tile at £12 a head to a Small Pottery item at £17 or a Large Pottery money box at £21, each a one-hour session; Teddy Bear Mountain lets a child make their own cuddly toy. A Pool Party pairs a pool session with a decorated table and balloons, and a Commando Run session books out the inflatable obstacle course. Both the Pool Party and Commando Run can be upgraded to include a pizza-and-chips buffet for an extra £10 a head (prices last checked July 2026).
For grown-ups there's the Lady's Mile Fitness Club, with TechnoGym equipment and an app link. It's free to holiday guests between 10am and 6pm with a wristband, and £5 a day through reception outside those hours (price last checked July 2026, and can change); full residential members, of which the park offers only 35 places, can use it from 6:30am to 10pm. The park's own pages don't line up on whether its sauna is open, with the gym page showing it closed for refurbishment and the pools page listing an infrared sauna, so check when you book. The park also runs a calendar of festival-style events through 2026, including a Summer Fest on Saturday 4 July with face painting, children's games, live music and festival food and free entry for day visitors, and Summer Stock at the Marquee on Sunday 30 August, alongside music weekends and seasonal parties. Events can change or be cancelled, so check the current calendar before building a trip around one.
The area and days out
Lady's Mile sits well for the wider south Devon coast, and most days out are a short drive. Closest to hand, Starcross Golf Course is about 2.6 miles (4 km) away, a family-friendly course with no handicap needed and clubs to hire, and Powderham Castle, referred to as the castle on the park's own attractions page, is roughly 4 miles (6 km) up the estuary.
For animals and rides, Paignton Zoo is about 16.5 miles (27 km), around half an hour by car, with thousands of animals and plants, and Crealy Adventure Park and Resort is about 18 miles (29 km) with more than 60 rides, over 100 animals and indoor play. Pennywell Farm, an organic farm with animals and Dartmoor views, is about 27 miles (43 km). For something different there's Kents Cavern near Torquay, about 13.5 miles (22 km), a set of Stone Age show caves. The South Devon Railway steam line runs from Buckfastleigh, about 24.5 miles (39 km) away. Canonteign Falls, about 13 miles (21 km), has waterfalls, woodland and a Victorian fern garden. Exe Adventures runs coastal and outdoor activities nearby. The park's attractions page lists two online discount codes: 10% off admission to Canonteign Falls with the code LadysMile21 (last checked June 2026), and STARCROSS20 for four players at Starcross Golf Course for £20.
Loves and gripes
The themes that come through in the research, good and less good, then how the park sits against other Devon options.
The themes below come mainly from the park's Google reviews, which run 4.3 out of 5 from 2,561 ratings (checked 28 June 2026), plus a couple of family-holiday round-up sites rather than any first-hand stay, so read them as a steer rather than the final word.
What families love
- The pool warmth, the thing the park is most rated for and the specific praise in reviews.
- Clean, well-kept accommodation, with one reviewer calling a caravan spotless.
- Friendly staff and a family feel, with quiet lodge locations noted.
- The food at Oceans, praised for value, quality and quick service.
- The range of facilities, from the waterslides and inflatable course to the pump track, playgrounds and soft play.
What's worth weighing
- No towels in the static caravans, the clearest recurring complaint.
- The pool-booking system in the school holidays, with same-day app bookings and capacity that fills.
- Wi-Fi is a paid extra rather than included.
- The beach is a walk with a main road to cross, not a doorstep.
How it compares
The closest comparison is Cofton Holidays, another independent near Dawlish Warren with an indoor pool. Cofton holds a 5-star VisitEngland grade and its pool is a flat 1.2m depth, which suits young children well, whereas Lady's Mile's flumes and outdoor waterslides give more water action for slightly older children. Against Haven Devon Cliffs at Exmouth, Haven is larger with a bigger headline waterpark and direct beach access, while Lady's Mile is smaller and family-run and rated for its friendliness and cleanliness over a chain feel, though its beach walk is less convenient than Haven's.
Challaborough Bay, a Parkdean park, sits directly on the beach in a cove, which Lady's Mile can't match, but Lady's Mile has far more on site, from the pump track and gym to the year-round entertainment. Hoburne Devon Bay near Paignton is another well-regarded independent, closer to Paignton Zoo and 5-star VisitEngland graded, while Lady's Mile's pool reputation, with Pool of the Year in 2018, is the stronger draw on water. The trade across all of them is the same: Lady's Mile gives you the fuller on-site day, the others give you a beach closer to the door.
Getting there and when to go
Reaching the park, the check-in times, the nearest medical help and the quieter weeks with little ones.
Most families drive. The park is on Exeter Road, the A379, at postcode EX7 0LX, well signed from Dawlish and the A380. Exeter Airport is the nearest, about 15 miles (24 km) away, if anyone's coming a long way, and Stagecoach buses run through Dawlish Warren and the surrounding area. Dawlish station sits on the scenic coastal railway line, so plan a taxi or a lift for the last leg with luggage and children.
On timings, caravans and lodges are ready from 4pm with check-out by 10am, while touring and camping pitches run from 11am to 11am. You can use the bar, restaurant, pool and clubhouse before check-in once you've collected your wristbands from reception, so an early arrival isn't dead time. For medical help, Dawlish Community Hospital has a Minor Injuries Unit on 01626 868500, Barton Surgery is the local GP, and the nearest A&E departments are the Royal Devon and Exeter, about 9 miles (14 km) away, and Torbay Hospital, about 11 miles (18 km); NHS 111 covers urgent advice out of hours.
For choosing a month, the peak is late July and August, the warmest and busiest weeks, with the outdoor pool open, everything running and pool sessions that need booking. June and September are the better-value shoulder months, nearly as warm and much quieter, with the outdoor pool still open in early September until the Devon holidays end. Because the park and its indoor pool are open all year, a low-season autumn or winter break works too, leaning on the indoor pool and the evening entertainment.
Month by monthWeather
Dawlish is on the sheltered south Devon coast, so it's warm rather than hot in summer and mild through the winter. The figures below are typical monthly highs and overnight lows across the year. July and August peak at a modest 20°C, June is among the drier and sunnier months at around 63mm of rain, and October is among the wettest at around 130mm, so there's always the indoor pool and clubhouse if a beach day is rained off.
| Month | Daytime high | Overnight low | Rain | Wet days | Sea temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.5° | 4° | 132 mm | 15 | 10° |
| February | 10° | 4° | 99 mm | 13 | 9° |
| March | 11° | 5° | 86 mm | 12 | 9° |
| April | 13.5° | 6° | 69 mm | 10 | 10° |
| May | 16° | 8.5° | 64 mm | 9 | 12° |
| June | 19° | 11° | 63 mm | 9 | 15° |
| July | 21° | 13° | 67 mm | 8 | 17° |
| August | 21° | 13° | 76 mm | 10 | 17° |
| September | 19° | 11.5° | 70 mm | 9 | 17° |
| October | 16° | 10° | 130 mm | 14 | 16° |
| November | 12.5° | 6.5° | 129 mm | 15 | 14° |
| December | 10.5° | 4.5° | 145 mm | 16 | 12° |
Typical monthly averages from weather-station records. Sea temperature is the open-water figure, so a sheltered bay can feel a degree or two warmer.
Practical notes
The everyday rules that shape a stay: Wi-Fi, wristbands, quiet hours, dogs and cancellation.
Wi-Fi is a paid extra through an outside provider, with one code covering up to five devices and a signal weaker than home broadband, so don't count on it for work or streaming. Wristbands must be worn at all times to get into the facilities, and a replacement from reception may carry a charge. Quiet hours apply after 11pm, with the hot tubs not to be used after 11pm and no loud music outside, so the marquee's neighbours aren't disturbed.
Dogs are welcome, up to two per unit, but only in the dog-friendly holiday homes and pitches, so book one of those if you're bringing a dog. They aren't allowed in the pool areas, service dogs aside, but they're welcome in designated parts of the clubhouse, and there's a dog exercise area on site; breeds covered by the Dangerous Dogs Act are excluded. On cancellation, the park gives a full refund if you cancel more than 72 hours before arrival, and a credit note within 72 hours.
The questions parents askQuestions
Which accommodation comes with towels?
Only the lodges, mini lodges, safari tents and The Conker. Book a static caravan or a touring or camping pitch and you bring your own, including towels for the pool, or you'll be buying them at the park shop. Duvets, pillows and bed linen are provided in everything except the touring and camping pitches.
Will there be a cot in the caravan?
Assume not. Nowhere lists cots or highchairs, so a travel cot and a clip-on highchair are the safe things to pack. If packing them isn't possible, ring the park on 01626 863411 before you book rather than counting on one being there.
Do we have to book the pool in advance?
Only in the school holidays. Download the app before you arrive and set an alarm for the 9:30am release on busy days, because slots go first-come and the popular ones fill. Out of the holidays you just show your wristband, with nothing to book, though it can still get busy at peak times.
How far is the beach, and can we walk it?
Yes, it's walkable at a little under a mile, and the park describes it that way. The difference from a seafront hotel is the A379 to cross and the walk back at the end of a long beach day, which is the leg that catches families out with a pushchair and young children.
Can we bring the dog?
Yes, but only in the units and pitches marked dog-friendly, so choose one of those when you book rather than adding a dog afterwards. Up to two per unit, kept out of the pool areas and allowed in parts of the clubhouse, with a dog exercise area on site.
Is the Wi-Fi any good?
If you need to work or stream, don't rely on it. The park Wi-Fi is a paid add-on and slower than home broadband, so use your mobile data as the main connection and check your signal when you arrive.
Is the park open in winter?
Yes. The park and its indoor pool are open all year, so an autumn or winter break works. The outdoor pool and waterslides are seasonal, closing after the Devon school summer holidays, and the convenience store shuts from around November, so a low-season stay leans on the indoor pool, the clubhouse and the evening shows.
Is there a sauna?
There is, by the pool, and one's included with The Conker couples' pod. The park's own pages don't line up on whether a sauna is currently open, so if a sauna is part of why you're booking, check it's running when you reserve.
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Useful links
- Lady's Mile Holiday Park: the park's own site for accommodation, the pools, the food and what's included.
- Blue Flag: the current award status for Dawlish Warren and other UK beaches.
- Devon with little ones: our guide to the wider county, its coast and when to go.
Last updated 16 July 2026.
