Best romantic hotels in Wales

The River Monnow flows just in front of the door of Sarah Hudson’s former coaching inn and well-liked pub-with-rooms.

‘A bit of luxury in the middle of Snowdonia’, with views over the Glasyln estuary, this B&B in a late Georgian villa comes with an interesting history, told through its bedroom names.

Guests are dazzled by the views of Snowdonia – not to speak of the drawing-room carpet – at the former home of the Armstrong-Joneses, a trove of memorabilia.

Rich in antiques, wood panelling and fine original features, this historic Victorian country house on the edge of Snowdonia national park stands in a woodland garden that stretches to the River Dee.

Seaside splendour comes to the fore at this modern hotel above Carmarthen Bay.

Up the street from the Great Orme Tramway, Gaenor Loftus and Sam Nayar’s design-conscious B&B occupies a white stucco Victorian villa filled with more than a touch of fun.

Standing in graceful seclusion in wooded grounds, this Grade I listed manor house is a tranquil country retreat from the vibrant university town on the coast.

On a wooded headland overlooking the Tywi estuary, this contemporary restaurant-with-rooms is in a thoughtfully restored Georgian mansion as freshly inviting inside as out.

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.

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.

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.

Far up the Vale of Ewyas in the Welsh Black mountains, and just before the road becomes a narrow track, is where you’ll find the wild and remote setting of Llanthony Priory Hotel.

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.

Enveloping exotic woodland, sandy beaches and a riot of colour, Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis’s Italianate village on the edge of a tidal estuary is an architectural astonishment.

Rugged stone gives way to clean-cut, contemporary accommodation at this 12th-century Norman castle.