First time eurocamp or similar- please help am overwhelmed

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So for our family holiday (early July ‘25) looking for 10 days on car Ferry from Plymouth to either France or Spain.
Criteria is must be warm with warm pools/water (28 degrees ish), 1.5 hours max from ferry port, naice accommodation with a/c, near to local village/town, pools and splash park, and some activities. DC are 13 & 4, not too busy.
I have searched and basically gotten all confused! Please help me!! Thank you

You have very similar search criteria to me, and I am yet to find a suitable campsite within 1.5 hours of a ferry port in Spain.
And within 1.5 hours of a French port, you need to be looking at campsites with indoor pools, or at least heated pools. Have a look at Les Mouettes and Domaine des Ormes.

theres also Huttopia, Yelloh! and Odalys who run sites.
The two Odalys sites we’ve stayed at in France are brick and mortar rather than the static caravan style of Eurocamp, can’t say whether they’re all like that though.

As PP said, you will struggle to find somewhere warm within 1.5 hours of a French port. Brittany/Normandy is much like the UK, it can be lovely but you could also have rain all week so you need to have a heated indoor pool as a back up. For more reliable sunshine you would need to drive much further south, at least Vendee but that's 3-4 hours from St Malo and can still have cooler weather if you're unlucky.

Taking the ferry to Spain would get you within 1.5 hours of Biarritz. Not an area I'm familiar with but hopefully someone else can recommend a suitable site. Have you checked the price of the ferry though? It might be cheaper to fly, in which case you might as well fly somewhere warmer!

Hent Kerbader, 29170 Fouesnant, France
It’s a Yelloh site in the Concarneau to Benodet coast.

Watching with interest! Have Portsmouth to st malo ferry booked. Can't decide on a camp site. We can travel a little further so are looking at Yelloh ones in vendee- pin parasol looks promising?

@User2123 thanks, this is what I’ve found looking at temperatures but apparently the crossing across bay of biscay is notoriously bad, and yes flights are a lot quicker poss cheaper too but tho then I’d have to hire a car. And then I go round and round in circles…!

OP I am well seasoned in this type of holiday, we usually head to Brittany or the Vendee and have had about 50% success rate for consistent hot weather. We also (DC younger, before school) flew to Milan once and hired a car and stayed in a safari tent on Lake Maggiore. You could do it without a car though, there is a train to the lake and loads of campsites. We went in May and it was warm so would be guaranteed good weather later in the summer. It will be more expensive than the ferry to France but the Spain ferry is £££ and flights in and out of Milan are plentiful so shouldn't be too expensive. Worth a look if hot weather is a must.

As others have said, somewhere within 1.5 hours of a Spanish port is tricky - and that northern coast can also be wet. We’ve stayed at Playa Joyel, which is about 30 minutes from Santander and an hour from Bilbao and have had scorching weather but also rain. If you’re willing to up your drive to 2 hours, some of the south western Atlantic coast sites will be in reach from Bilbao. If you want the Med, it’s a 6-7 hour drive from the Spanish ferry ports.

If flights are an option, I know lots of people fly to Beziers, Perpignan or Carcassonne and stay at sites where you don’t need a car. (We were at Les Mediterranees Beach Gardens this summer and you could manage a stay without a car.) I think the Eurocamp site allows you to filter by sites that are suitable for a car-free stay.

We've managed a few eurocamp flying without hiring a car...

This one we flew to Barcelona and got the train to it...

www.eurocamp.co.uk/campsites/spain/costa-dorada/park-playa-bara-campsite

Managed a few train and bus trips to Tarragona as well as a day out in Barcelona.

We also managed quite easily Lake Garda without a car based in a eurocamp near Peschiera,

Where we flew and got a cab from Verona. We then took day trips by ferry and a day out by train to Verona central which was about 20 mins.

We loved northern Spain but the weather is not that reliable (though it's very popular with Spanish tourists escaping the heat of the south). That being said we have only ever had the odd rainy day when we have been there, mostly the weather has been low - mid 20s and sunny and the beaches are absolutely beautiful and perfect for little ones. The further west you go the warmer / less rainy it gets. I have done the ferry lots of times and never had a rough crossing - I think in summer it's generally ok. As others have said to get reliable weather in France you will need to head a bit further south than your drive time will allow.