Great campsites in Devon or Dorset with a warm swimming pool?

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I want to book a reasonably priced camping hol for this summer and need to be near a good beach with rockpools for DH, soft sand for me and DCs plus a bit of life. However, I am not really after a nightclub or entertainment just a bit of fishing action maybe, nice shops for me and DDs. We all want somewhere to swim so an indoor pool or outdoor pool complex would be fab.

Do you know what I am after?

TIA.

evening all?

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Maybe try the camping section, you might get more replies.

I have n't got any ideas sorry. Am off to Devon to camp at River Dart campsite which is meant to be nice. No swimming pool, though you can swim in the river.

I have been wracking my brains but can't think of anywhere that ticks all the boxes.

Have a look on UK campsite as I think you can probably do a search for all those things, and they have reviews of the sites on there as well.

OSmington Mills. We are going there in June cos kids not at school age yet, but we went a few years back camping in August it was fab.

Will get a link.

When are you planning to go, make it 27th June and we can have a meet up

Aren't all the beaches stoney near Osmington though?

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What I liked best is they have a silence curfew after 11pm.

There is just a little walk down a path to a tiny cove, DP went fishing up the coast at Chesil beach and caught far too much mackerel in about 10 mins, theres a pool, club house, shop, lovely pub nearby for food, laundrette with dryers. If dorset wasn't so far for us we'd go there several times a year.

The camping seemed a reasonable price for the facilities.

The one odd thing is that just as you drive up to it theres a really crappy site with a very similar name and the people in the next tent to us had spent their first night there by mistake!

You could try Ladram Bay. It's easy walking distance across the cliffs to Budleigh Salterton or Sidmouth for fish and chips, shops, festival etc... and a short walk to Otterton (Otterton mill, various walks, pub, shop etc...). Probably quite busy in Sidmouth festival week though.

I managed to sit on a bit of sand as I recall

I've ticked about 500 of the ops boxes, she didn't mention southport stylee miles of sand!

Oh, there won't be sand on the Jurassic Coast... But it is very pretty, and at least if you get a pebble in your sandwiches, it's pretty easy to fish out.

I love Osmington Mills (but had discounted it because it's not a sandy beach!). It is a lovely site and you could drive to Weymouth for the sandy beach.

There's West Fleet on the other side of Weymouth too.

We are taking the children to Osmington mills because the little cove at the end of the campsite is perfect for little boys with those fishing rod net things - when they are out and about I can't sit still long enough to notice if there's pebbles or sand under me!

thanks everyone - sorry, forgot I had posted this one!

Lovely ideas everyone. I quite like the West Fleet site. Is the pool warm though. We have been to a similar pool before and it was miles too cold even on a scorching day. I know we are wimps but the kids even had wet suits on and came out shivering....

I think it was fairly warm, as outdoor pools go! I remember the Osmington Mills one being colder.

We were there in mid/late September and dd spent the whole of the Sunday morning in there.

thanks Surfer mum