For the last few years we have spent the winter (approx 3 months) about 40 miles east of Malaga.
We rent a decent apartment and have driven down - both UK to France ferry + drive, and also Santander/Bilbao from Portsmouth then drive.
The 24 hour ferry is quicker - we usually stop overnight a couple of hundred miles down the road and do the rest the following day. But you need to like gentle boat swaying in a force 10.
I find the drive across France rather boring TBH. Hotels close to the mway are rubbish - Travel Lodge and Premier Inn are much much better.
Cost wise there is not much in it - extra hotel nights + tolls + fuel cancel out the extra ferry costs.
But the real benefit is that getting 3 months clothes, shoes, laptops, books, medicines etc etc below an ~ 20kg limit is difficult. Also means that I do not have to rent when I get there.
I've found no real problems with RHD on even small roads, although generally avoid actual tracks.
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