Whether you're on a houseboat, cruise ship, car trip, camping or resort trip, board games are a great way to spend some together time, on a family holiday.
Some things never change... kids are still going up and down those snakes and ladders. Here's a travel set.
Boggle's a classic word-game, and this tiny version even has a mini-timer.
Get your wits about you, for this classic code-cracking game! Played in pairs; for ages eight and up.
A travel version of the hugely popular "new style" board game. Settlers of Catan is probably the best known of the "German-style board games", which aren't necessarily German (though they usually are), and which are aka "Designer" or "Euro" games: they're challenging yet can be played in an hour or two.
Scrabble of course is a classic, and fun to play with older kids; buy yourself a travel version to take on trips.
Intellectual mano-a-mano; and what can you say, when your (young!) kids beat you at chess?