A dartboard in the bar is a small, specific pleasure: the game two parents play after the kids have gone up, or the one a father and a fourteen-year-old get quietly competitive about across a week. It asks nothing of anyone, and it turns twenty minutes at the bar into an evening. The hotels in this collection have a board worth playing on. Think a proper bristle board rather than a magnetic one, an oche marked at the right distance, decent lighting so you can actually see the treble twenty, and darts available at the bar rather than locked in an office. Several properties add soft-tip electronic boards, which is the sensible choice where younger children are wandering through. Below are the top family hotels with a dartboard, sorted by overall score.