The River Marlais runs by the garden of Annabel and Stephen Thomas’s 16th-century country house in a village on the edge of Brechfa Forest.

‘In a beautiful setting’ in wooded grounds, with trout lake and the River Irfon running through it, Jean-Pierre Mifsud’s hotel is especially praised for its ‘location, ambience and welcoming staff'.

‘Hospitality of the highest quality lies behind the front door of this outstanding B&B.' A Guide inspector had ‘a most rewarding stay’ at this pink-washed, Grade II listed Georgian house.

In a sylvan setting on the remote Lleyn peninsula, Gunna and Chris Chown’s Georgian country house has had an entry in the Guide for many years.

Some forest findings with your roast Jerusalem artichokes? Estuary greens with the scallops? Nature's wild bounty features prominently at this lauded restaurant-with-rooms owned by Michelin-starred chef Chris Harrod and his wife, Kirsty.

Leave the West Wales coast road, head down a country lane, and you’ve suddenly arrived at this ‘superb’ B&B, a former Victorian farm among ‘delightful grounds’ in ‘complete silence’.

Spread across two of Harlech’s oldest houses, Glyn and Jacqueline Roberts’s restaurant-with-rooms won approval from Guide regulars this year, with ‘an excellent room, and lovely dinner on both nights’.

‘Lindsay is one of the most welcoming people I’ve ever met; the breakfasts, all freshly cooked by Gary, are delicious.’ Praise for the Ashcrofts, your hosts at this Georgian rectory on the beautiful Llyn peninsula.

In a market town by the Preseli hills, this ‘superbly located’ B&B in a powder-blue Georgian town house delighted readers this year. ‘It is an exceptional establishment. Every need we had was happily met.’

Brothers Charles and Edmund Inkin invite you to eat, drink, sleep. Pray and love, too, by all means: there is a free-and-easy vibe at this dining pub, ‘a truly wonderful place’.

'In a lovely location’, Richard Ireton and Sarah Hudson's restored coaching inn on the banks of the River Monnow continues to delight readers.

‘An old favourite, a lovely place for a calm and grown-up break.’ It proved a happy return for readers to Glyn and Menna Heulyn’s vivid blue former harbourmaster’s house on the Georgian quayside.

The promised welcome in the vales is extended by Eluned Rowlands at this converted granite cowshed-turned-characterful B&B with views to Snowdonia and the Menai estuary

If you do like to be beside the seaside, you’ll be beside yourself with glee at this opulent small hotel on the promenade of a quintessential Victorian coastal resort.

In the Cambrian mountains, set back from the A483, this red brick former Victorian vicarage-turned-B&B has been praised for its ‘atmosphere of heart-warming hospitality’.

Up a ‘testing’ country lane beneath Cadair Idris, this quirky bolthole is run by the ‘impressive’ Angela and Bernhard Lanz, who ‘could not be more friendly or obliging’.

‘Alex and Lorraine's 18th-century farmhouse offers a level of hospitality to rival many of the best small hotels in the UK.’

‘From the moment we arrived, we knew this was special’; ‘the hospitality is outstanding’; ‘Robert and Arwel are perfect hosts’. Another year, another trove of praise for Robert Smith and Arwel Hughes's ‘delightful B&B’.

At the end of a long drive, Chris and Lisa Sutton’s ‘welcoming’ Italianate villa stands ‘in stunning grounds’, a mile outside Lampeter.

‘This a place to which we would happily return,’ write trusted (and exacting) readers, after a visit to David and Beverley Harrison-Wood’s 19th-century mansion turned eco-friendly guest house.

Coes Faen means ‘leg of stone’, bringing to mind Shelley’s Ozymandias, but there is no vainglory at Sara and Richard Parry-Jones’s adults-only hotel overlooking the Mawddach estuary.

On their Pembrokeshire working farm, the Evans family ‘warmly welcomes’ visitors to their laid-back, 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.

Urbane cool design and personal touches fill Sam Nayar and Gaenor Loftus’s stylish B&B in a white stucco Victorian villa just up the slopes of the Great Orme.