A Welsh rarebit on the tip of Cardigan Bay, this ‘lovely, wacky’ hotel is a family-friendly, family-run affair.

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

Friendly and welcoming as ever, this B&B is run by second-generation owners Michael and Judith Cooper, and their son, Oliver.

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

A romantic Jacobean mansion, first opened as a hotel in 1990 by the late Sir Bernard Ashley, remains home to his ‘fabulous collection of paintings, sculptures and antiques’.

On ‘one of the steepest, narrowest streets’ in a ‘town of sudden vistas’, just above the castle, this restaurant-with-rooms has been run by chef/patron Glyn Roberts and his wife, Jacqueline, since 1989.

The leafy, flower-lined drive is a colourful welcome to Gary and Lindsay Ashcroft’s part-Georgian rectory on the Llyn peninsula.

‘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’.

‘On a sunny evening the effect of the clarity of the light, the pastel-coloured houses and the harbour is reminiscent of Brittany.’

‘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.

‘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.

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

‘Our third visit.’ Readers tempted back this year to celebrity chef Stephen Terry’s restaurant-with-rooms – a reinvention of a ‘grotty roadside pub’ – found everything to their liking.

With a Michelin star and ‘spectacular’ views of the Severn estuary and famous pier from a prime spot on Penarth’s late Victorian esplanade, James Sommerin’s family-run restaurant-with-rooms is ‘a very pleasant place to stay’.

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.

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

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.

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.

Riverside ambles and ‘by far the best breakfast of our holiday’ draw fans to this ‘very good’ B&B in a well-restored Pembrokeshire longhouse, a short drive from a pleasant market town.

With extensive views over the Tywi estuary, David and Wendy Beaney’s Georgian restaurant-with-rooms has brought ‘stylish minimalism down to a fine art’.

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

Inconspicuous amid shops, bars and restaurants, this late-Victorian hotel, alchemised out of an old office block, sits on a pedestrianised street, close to the station and castle.