20 of the most beautiful hotels in Wales
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Crickhowell
There are sublime views from this eccentric Victorian country house with Italianate campaniles and 20th-century porte cochère, in wooded grounds overlooking the River Usk.
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Llandudno
On the slopes of Pydew mountain, with views to Conwy Castle and the Snowdonia mountains, a 17th-century mansion in parkland and Arts and Crafts gardens, extended over centuries, is today a luxury hotel and spa.
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Aberdovey
For a century, generations of Cave-Browne-Caves have welcomed families and four-legged friends to their hotel on a hillside above Cardigan Bay, across road and railway line from golf links and white-sand beaches.
The Whitebrook
Whitebrook
Hedge bedstraw, lamb’s sorrel, mugwort and estuary greens appear on the plate at Chris and Kirsty Harrod’s Michelin-starred ‘super, small restaurant-with-rooms’, on a single-track road in a Wye valley hamlet.
Penbontbren
Llandysul
Guests enjoy the warmth and friendliness of a traditional guest house combined with all the space and privacy they could wish for at this unusual rural B&B which 'couldn't be better'.
The Manor Town House
Fishguard
Behind a powder-blue facade, Helen and Chris Sheldon’s Georgian town house B&B has the welcoming feel of a private home, and unexpected, spectacular views from the rear terrace, across Cardigan Bay to the Preseli hills.
The Felin Fach Griffin
Brecon
Brothers Charles and Edmund Inkin keep a welcome in the vales at their relaxed, brick-red dining pub-with-rooms, amid sheep-grazed pastures, just outside the Brecon Beacons national park.
The Bell at Skenfrith
Skenfrith
The River Monnow flows just in front of the door of Sarah Hudson’s former coaching inn and well-liked pub-with-rooms.
The Angel Hotel
Abergavenny
At the heart of a market town on the edge of the Brecon Beacons, William Griffiths’s Georgian coaching inn is today a stylish contemporary hotel.
Llys Meddyg
Newport
In a small town on the glorious Pembrokeshire coast, Ed and Lou Sykes run their 19th-century stone house as a smart restaurant-with-rooms, successfully blending character with cool contemporary design.
Grove of Narberth
Narberth
Described in 1811 as the 'respectable old house of Grove, embosomed in trees’, the ancient seat of the Poyer family is today a luxurious country house hotel, embosomed in verdant grounds.
The Falcondale
Lampeter
In 'most beautiful surroundings' on a bluff overlooking the Teifi valley, this Victorian Italianate villa, designed by Thomas Talbot Bury, an associate of Pugin’s, is a very dog-friendly hotel and popular wedding venue.
Osborne House
Llandudno
Furnished with ‘impressive grandeur’, this small hotel on the promenade has ‘splendid’ public rooms decorated with oil paintings and gilded mirrors; on the upper floors, some of the ‘characterful’ suites take in the panorama of the sea.
St Brides Spa Hotel
Saundersfoot
Seaside splendour comes to the fore at this modern hotel above Carmarthen Bay.
Tyddyn Llan
Corwen
Foodies flock to Susan and Bryan Webb's restaurant-with-rooms with views over the Vale of Edeyrnion for good reason – Bryan has been cooking up a storm for 45 years and Susan is the consummate hostess.
Lake Country House Hotel & Spa
Llangammarch Wells
Anne Hathaway meets Heidi in the hybrid architecture of Pierre Mifsud’s former hunting and fishing lodge, beautifully situated in the foothills of Mynydd Epynt, with a trout lake and the River Irfon running through.
Llangoed Hall
Brecon
The picturesque Wye valley is the setting for this 17th-century manor house that opened as a hotel in 1990 under the late Sir Bernard Ashley, of the Laura Ashley fashion and textiles empire.
Penally Abbey
Tenby
A 'good base for exploring the Pembrokeshire coast', the Boissevain family's Strawberry Hill Gothic house in a 'beautiful location with outstanding rooms and dinner' proves hard to leave, say readers.
Whether you're looking for a friendly B&B or a grand hotel, there's a picturesque place to stay for you. This selection is taken from our hotels in Wales.