Here is a small tragedy of family travel: the parent who takes the photographs is never in any of them. Ten years of holidays, four thousand pictures, and the mother who planned every one of them appears in about nine. A hotel photographer solves a problem most families do not realize they have until they look back. The hotels in this collection offer photography as a real service. Think a professional on the property rather than a roaming character with a print stand, sessions bookable at the good light rather than at noon, a shooting style that catches the family as it actually is rather than lining everyone up on a beach in white linen, and honest pricing with digital files included instead of a hard sell on prints at checkout. Below are the top family hotels with a photographer, sorted by overall score.