‘In a small village in a valley, surrounded by forest walks’, Annabel and Stephen Thomas’s 16th-century country house is ‘ideal for guests wishing to holiday with their four-legged friend’.

Cocooned in ‘lovely, peaceful grounds in glorious countryside’, Jean-Pierre Mifsud’s ‘welcoming’ Victorian country house hotel continues to offer an enjoyable bucolic break.

Surrounded by rolling countryside, yet just a hill away from the sea, this ‘first-rate’ former Victorian farm B&B ‘is a very special place set in beautiful grounds’.

‘Our puppy absolutely loved the place!’ writes a reader, of this dining pub in a hamlet between the Brecon Beacons and the Black mountains.

‘A great base for exploring,’ Richard Ireton and Sarah Hudson’s ‘pleasing, white-painted coaching inn’ stands overlooking an old stone bridge across the River Monmow, while ‘behind it, green hills gently rise’.

Expect a thoroughly ‘warm’ ‘croeso’ at Eluned Rowlands’s B&B on the edge of Snowdonia. Welsh is the lingua franca of this converted cowshed, which is imbued with local culture and heritage.

‘Intimate and eccentric’, this one-time cottage hospital on a ‘testing’ country lane has been converted into a ‘stylish’ rural guest house at the foot of Cadair Idris.

With Tal-y-llyn lake practically in the back garden, Cadair Idris behind, and ‘some of the finest walks in any national park’, Alex Yorke and Lorraine Hinkins’s Snowdonia B&B wins praise again this year.

Surrounded by ‘handsome’ gardens bursting with rhododendrons, this ‘striking’ Italianate villa is a peaceful spot in an idyllic setting.

‘The name means “leg of stone”,’ a Guide inspector tells us – a reference to the rocks on and over which this ‘fabulous, ultra-modern’ B&B is built.

In the middle of their Pembrokeshire working farm, the Evans family ‘warmly welcomes’ visitors to their laid-back, pleasingly rustic restaurant-with-rooms.

A gateway to the Cambrian mountains, this semi-rural Edwardian restaurant-with-rooms is a home-from-home with high green credentials.

Long a popular stopover, this well-located hotel has for centuries been the hub of a fashionable, cobbled market town surrounded by the cow-flecked fields of the Vale of Glamorgan.

Glorious views to Snowdonia spill away from a cheerfully quirky restaurant-with-rooms surrounded by sheep-spotted fields on the Isle of Anglesey.

This recently renovated 17th-century country house is close to the centre of a historic village and the Glamorgan Heritage Coast.

In a sylvan setting on the remote Lleyn peninsula, Gunna and Chris Chown’s Georgian country house has enchanted guests for over 30 years.

Behind the street front of a Georgian coaching inn, in its bones, timbers and staircase, this ‘well-run’ hotel is far older, with a history stretching back to the 1500s.

‘The best of its kind.’ Standing in an ‘appealing’ village is Edward and Louise Sykes’s small, ‘equally professional and personable’ Georgian restaurant-with-rooms.

Rich in antiques, fine wood panelling and painted ceilings. this sumptuous, well-refurbished country house hotel, in an historic Victorian manor house, lies on the edge of Snowdonia national park.

On a secluded farmstead, Hilary and Stephen Murphy and daughter, Laura, run this hotel ‘in lovely countryside’ overlooking the Isle of Anglesey.

High on a clifftop, overlooking Penarth Pier and the Bristol Channel, a nursing home in a Victorian suburb has been converted into a pleasant hotel with spa facilities.

‘Delightful, hands-on’ Neil and Marco Soares-Baines have transformed the former home of the Armstrong-Jones family into a luxurious B&B, set between the mountains and the sea.

Home comforts and good value proliferate at Paul and Michelle Martin’s family-friendly oasis amid undulating countryside.

In the verdant Elwy valley, Lynn Cunnah-Watson and Tim Watson’s handsome sandstone inn provides ‘utter relaxation’.