{"id":1543,"date":"2026-10-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookholidaypark.co.uk\/help\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2026-10-21T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T08:00:00","slug":"holiday-parks-near-dawlish-warren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookholidaypark.co.uk\/help\/seaside-holiday-parks\/holiday-parks-near-dawlish-warren.html","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Parks Near Dawlish Warren – 7 Stays by the Blue Flag Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Step off the train at Dawlish Warren and you can smell the sea before you’ve left the platform. Beyond it there’s a mile and a half of golden sand, wooden groynes marching into the water, a little fairground and, past the last beach hut, a wild sand spit full of dunes and wading birds that reaches right across the mouth of the Exe towards Exmouth.<\/p>\n

Most Dawlish Warren holiday parks sit within a mile of that beach, on the flat land between the sand and the red cliffs of the South Devon coastline. So the choice isn’t really about location. It’s about what you want on site: big pools and nightly shows, a lodge with its own tub, or a restored 1950s railway carriage a few steps from the dunes.<\/p>\n

Here are seven on our listings, closest first, plus the beach, the reserve and Brunel’s sea wall.<\/p>\n

Low grassy dunes back the long sandy beach, with Exmouth just across the water<\/p>\n

Which Dawlish Warren holiday parks are closest to the beach?<\/h2>\n

Five of the seven are under five minutes from the sand by car, and many guests simply walk. Tap a column heading to sort the table.<\/p>\n

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Holiday park<\/th>\nDrive (mins)<\/th>\nSleeps<\/th>\nHot tubs<\/th>\nPets<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Red Rock Apartments<\/a><\/td>\n1<\/td>\n4<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brunel Boutique Holiday Park<\/a><\/td>\n2<\/td>\n6<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dawlish Sands<\/a><\/td>\n3<\/td>\n8<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dawlish Golden Sands<\/a><\/td>\n3<\/td>\n10<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lady’s Mile Holiday Park<\/a><\/td>\n3<\/td>\n8<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Holmans Wood Holiday Park<\/a><\/td>\n23<\/td>\n8<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Crealy Resort<\/a><\/td>\n26<\/td>\n8<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Caravan parks Dawlish Warren families book first<\/h2>\n

Three big family parks line the road behind the resort. Each has a pool, a bar and entertainment. All are a short walk from the Blue Flag beach.<\/p>\n

Lady’s Mile Holiday Park<\/a><\/h3>\n

3 mins by car | sleeps up to 8 | hot tubs | dogs welcome | lodges<\/strong><\/p>\n

This family-run park is less than a mile from the Blue Flag sands<\/p>\n

The biggest choice on our listings, with 43 holiday homes, and it’s open all year round. This multi award winning, family-run park’s facilities include indoor and outdoor swimming pools with water slides, splash zones, a kids club, a gym, an outdoor pump track and Oceans Bar & Restaurant, home of the entertainment team. Accommodation goes from static caravans to lodges with private tubs, and there’s a camping and touring field too.<\/p>\n

It’s less than a mile from the sand.<\/p>\n

Dawlish Golden Sands<\/a><\/h3>\n

3 mins by car | sleeps up to 10 | dogs welcome | lodges<\/strong><\/p>\n

Golden Sands has indoor and outdoor heated pools a short stroll from the dunes<\/p>\n

Golden Sands has indoor and outdoor heated pools, an entertainment venue and bar, a children’s club for 0 to 14s, a takeaway, amusements, a mini mart and superfast WiFi. The outdoor pool is listed as open from 7 April to 10 September, weather permitting. Its owners also run Dawlish Sands next door, and guests can use the facilities at both, which adds up to three swimming pools and two clubhouses within walking distance!<\/p>\n

With the largest home sleeping 10, it’s the family holiday park for a big get-together.<\/p>\n

Dawlish Sands<\/a><\/h3>\n

3 mins by car | sleeps up to 8 | dogs welcome<\/strong><\/p>\n

Caravans here are within walking distance of more than two miles of sand<\/p>\n

The smaller sister park sits within walking distance of the beach. On site facilities include an indoor heated pool, a sun terrace, a licensed clubhouse showing Sky TV and BT Sport, an amusement arcade (charges apply), an adventure playground, family entertainment and a mini market. Park Holidays lists a restaurant, takeaway and a dog friendly bar area too.<\/p>\n

Other parks you’ll pass<\/h3>\n

You’ll also see Hazelwood, Welcome Family and Cofton signposted around the village. They aren’t on our listings, but Hazelwood has chalets, lodges and two fishing lakes, while Cofton, a short drive towards Starcross, has camping and touring pitches alongside its caravans.<\/p>\n

Beside the beach: railway carriages and apartments<\/h2>\n

Two places on our map aren’t classic caravan parks at all. They’re small, they’re the closest to the sand and they suit couples who’ll spend all day on the beach anyway.<\/p>\n

Brunel Boutique Holiday Park<\/a><\/h3>\n

2 mins by car | sleeps up to 6 | open all year | sea views<\/strong><\/p>\n

The boutique park on the seafront is made up of renovated MK1 railway carriages<\/p>\n

Here you sleep in a train. Brunel Boutique is a handful of MK1 railway carriages from the 1950s and 1960s, renovated into self catering homes with three bedrooms each, a fitted kitchen, flat screen TVs and heated floors for cooler months. It’s billed as the closest accommodation to the beach.<\/p>\n

Fitting, given the line Brunel built a few yards away.<\/p>\n

Red Rock Apartments<\/a><\/h3>\n

1 min by car | sleeps up to 4 | rated 4.7<\/strong><\/p>\n

Holiday flats rather than a park, a minute from the resort. The ground floor one has a double, a single and a bunk bedroom, wide interior doors for wheelchair access and doors from the open plan lounge onto a patio. Cafes, pubs, restaurants and the children’s amusements are all on the doorstep.<\/p>\n

Countryside lodges a short drive inland<\/h2>\n

Prefer peace and quiet? Two parks within half an hour trade the seafront for fields and woods.<\/p>\n

Holmans Wood Holiday Park<\/a><\/h3>\n

23 mins by car | sleeps up to 8 | hot tubs | dogs welcome | lodges<\/strong><\/p>\n

The lodges sit in 12 acres of countryside just outside Chudleigh<\/p>\n

Twelve acres of rolling Devon countryside just outside Chudleigh, with 22 holiday homes, sun decks and woodland strolls. There’s open space all round, and the Haldon Hills sit between you and the beach.<\/p>\n

Crealy Resort<\/a><\/h3>\n

26 mins by car | sleeps up to 8 | hot tubs | dogs welcome | lodges<\/strong><\/p>\n

These lodges sit beside a theme park with over 60 rides near Exeter<\/p>\n

Across the Exe near Clyst St Mary, these lodges sit next to Crealy Theme Park, with over 60 rides, zoo and farm animals, indoor soft play and Sooty Land.<\/p>\n

Staying further south? Oakcliff, Finlake and the other parks around Teignmouth, three miles down the coast, are compared in our guide to holiday parks near Teignmouth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Which park suits your break?<\/h2>\n