Best Lanzarote Hotels with Game Rooms for Family Holidays
5 family-friendly hotels with game room in Lanzarote . Handpicked for families who want the best.
Lanzarote is the Canary Island that hides its rainy days well, and when the wind picks up off the Atlantic, a proper games room is what saves the holiday. Five family hotels on the island have games rooms with table tennis, billiards, board games and sometimes a small arcade tucked away near the pool deck. The rooms aren't huge but they handle the predictable wet hour or the over-tired afternoon when nobody wants the sun. Below are the five hotels worth booking if a games room matters to you in 2026.
Lanzarote runs on black volcanic basalt and reliable wind. The beaches at Playa Blanca face south and stay calm. Puerto del Carmen has the longest strip and the easiest restaurant choice for kids. Costa Teguise sits a bit higher and the Atlantic gets restless from October. César Manrique designed half the public art on the island. Families come for the temperature: 21 to 28 degrees most of the year, no malaria, no jellyfish, two-hour flight from London.
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Why pick a Lanzarote hotel with a games room for kids
Hotel games rooms in Lanzarote split into two types. The first is the open lounge model where billiards, table tennis and a board-games shelf sit in a glass pavilion off the main lobby. Hotel Las Costas and Hipotels La Geria use this layout and it works because parents can sit on the lobby sofa with a drink. The second is the dedicated kids zone, where the games room is part of a wider mini club with crafts on one side and ping pong on the other. Sandos Papagayo and Hotel Mirador Papagayo run this style.
The advantage of staying somewhere with a games room is the lower-pressure rainy hour. Lanzarote gets rain four to seven days a year, but when it comes, it comes hard for thirty minutes and then stops. Without a games room you sit in the lobby with screens out and pretend it's fine. With one, you've got an automatic move that doesn't involve a screen and gives the kids a break from the pool. The hotel staff are used to it: junior bats appear, balls get found, and somebody usually adjusts the table net.
Parent's take
Honestly, the games room turned out to be the single most useful amenity on our Lanzarote trip. The kids made friends faster at the ping-pong table than at the kids club. We adults played one round of pool every evening before dinner and called it our holiday tradition. The room itself was small but bright, and there was always a hotel rep willing to broker a fair tournament when the seven-year-olds disagreed about rules.
Our Top 5 Picks
Hotels in Lanzarote with game room, sorted by guest rating.
Hotel Las Costas
Puerto del Carmen
Wonderful
962 reviews
Hotel Las Costas in Puerto del Carmen runs a real games room with table tennis, billiards and a board-games shelf, plus a small arcade corner. The room sits beside the lobby with floor-to-ceiling windows facing the gardens, so you can keep an eye on the kids from the bar.
From
€200/night
Why families love Hotel Las Costas
We had two rainy mornings and the games room saved them both. The billiards table was the right height for our ten-year-old and the staff lent us junior cues without us asking. The board-games shelf had Catan, Uno and a chess set that nobody had used in months. Our quieter seven-year-old picked the puzzles. The room never felt loud because the layout absorbed the noise into the gardens.
Hipotels La Geria
Puerto del Carmen
Excellent
2,194 reviews
Hipotels La Geria is a long-running family resort with a games room that doubles as a wet-weather kids' base. Two billiards tables, a table-tennis bay, board games and a few arcade machines are spread across a lit pavilion with garden views. The room is included in the half-board rate.
From
€169/night
Why families love Hipotels La Geria
This was the busiest games room we used and our kids loved it for that reason. There was always someone to play with, including the staff during the off-peak hours. The pool tables get scratched but the table tennis was new and the bats were better than we expected. The mini-tournament on Friday afternoon was free, lasted about 90 minutes, and our nine-year-old made his first holiday friend in the bracket.
ILUNION Costa Sal Lanzarote
Costa Teguise
Excellent
1,745 reviews
ILUNION Costa Sal Lanzarote sits in Costa Teguise with a games room that focuses on billiards and arcade machines rather than table tennis. The room is below the main pool deck and has its own small bar serving soft drinks for kids and beer for parents from 4pm.
From
€145/night
Why families love ILUNION Costa Sal Lanzarote
The games room was smaller than expected but the layout worked because there was a pool bar two steps away. Our older daughter played pinball and won enough tickets for a small prize at reception. The billiards table needed re-felting but worked fine. We came at end of October and the room was busier in the evenings than during the day, which surprised us. Good value for the price.
Sandos Papagayo
Playa Blanca
Very Good
596 reviews
Sandos Papagayo is an all-inclusive family resort on Las Coloradas Beach with a games room tucked off the main pool building. Table tennis, billiards and board games dominate the layout, and a separate kids' area handles the under-fives. The all-inclusive food and drink covers the games room bar too.
From
€212/night
Why families love Sandos Papagayo
All-inclusive worked well for us because the kids could drift in and out of the games room with a soft drink in hand and nobody worried about a bill. The room itself wasn't fancy but the table tennis was decent and the staff ran an informal tournament on Tuesday and Thursday. Our youngest preferred the toddler corner next door. The walk to the beach was three minutes through the gardens.
Hotel Mirador Papagayo by LIVVO
Playa Blanca
Very Good
777 reviews
Hotel Mirador Papagayo by LIVVO sits on the cliffs above Playa Blanca with a games room as part of the kids' club complex. Table tennis, billiards and a craft station share the same space, which keeps siblings of different ages in the same room. The pavilion overlooks the cliff path.
From
€156/night
Why families love Hotel Mirador Papagayo by LIVVO
We liked that the games room and craft area were combined because our two kids never want to do the same thing. The seven-year-old painted while the eleven-year-old played ping pong with another guest. The view of the cliff path and Fuerteventura in the distance was a bonus. The arcade machines were free to play, which adds up if you have a coin-shy parent. Pricing felt fair for what we got.
💡Practical tips for game-room stays in Lanzarote with children
- 1Bring your own ping-pong bats if you have strong opinions about grip. The hotel bats are functional but worn, and the loaner balls bounce inconsistently. A bat per child fits in any suitcase corner and the kids care more than you'd think about owning their own.
- 2Sign up at reception for the weekly mini-tournament. Three of the five hotels run a Friday afternoon ping-pong or billiards bracket for kids 7-12. Prizes are usually free ice creams. The kids remember this for months.
- 3Save the games room for late afternoon, not midday. The room is busiest 3pm to 5pm when families come back from the beach. If you want a quiet game, try 9am after breakfast or 8pm after dinner. The billiards table in particular gets booked solid in the late-afternoon window.
- 4Check whether the arcade machines are free or coin-operated. Two of the five hotels have older arcade cabinets that need 1-euro coins, which can drain a kid's allowance in twenty minutes. The other three include all games in the room rate.
- 5Bring socks. The games rooms have tiled floors and some hotels enforce a no-shoes policy on the table tennis platform. Two pairs of cotton socks per child per holiday will cover it.
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