Giant chess is one of the great sleeper amenities. It sits on a terrace looking decorative, and then a seven-year-old drags a knight across the board with both arms, and suddenly a family that has never played a game of chess together is forty minutes into one, with a passing grandparent offering unsolicited advice on the bishop. The hotels in this collection have set up giant chess properly. Think a full set with all the pieces present (which is a lower bar than it should be), a permanent board on a hard surface rather than faded paint on grass, pieces light enough for a child to lift, and a location where people naturally sit so a game draws an audience. Several properties add giant draughts, Connect Four, and Jenga alongside it, which is how a terrace becomes the place everyone ends up before dinner. Alpine and Mediterranean properties lead here. It is cheap, it is analog, it is unfashionable, and it produces more genuine multigenerational play than most things costing a hundred times more. Below are the top family hotels with giant chess, sorted by overall score.