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.

‘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 lovely location’, Sarah Hudson’s restored coaching inn on the banks of the River Monnow continues to delight readers.

‘An absolute gem!’ wrote a reader, of this ‘stunning country house’, the former home of the Armstrong-Jones family, with views to the Menai Strait and Snowdonia on the doorstep.

‘An example of what a British seaside hotel can do.’ Trusted readers were impressed by Lindsey and Andrew Evans’s coastal property, created with an ‘ambition, vision and style one might associate with California or Australia’.

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’.

Immaculate design is fused with breathtaking natural scenery at Coes Faen with the largest glass ceiling in Britain and a 30 acre private woodland garden and cascading natural water feature as well. It is absolutely the place to spend time on a romantic escape.

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

‘Worth the journey!’ Overlooking the Pembrokeshire coast, the Boissevain family’s 19th-century neo-Gothic house is ‘an attractive building’ in a ‘beautiful’ location.

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.

‘Overall, a very enjoyable stay.’ With extensive views over the Tywi estuary, David and Wendy Beaney’s restaurant-with-rooms brings ‘stylish minimalism down to a fine art’.

A ‘fabulous’ art collection still adorns this Jacobean mansion, which was opened as a hotel by the late Sir Bernard Ashley in 1990.

‘In the beautiful landscape of the Welsh Borders’, in the Vale of Ewyas, and within the precincts of a ruined Augustinian abbey, Victoria and Geoff Neal’s hotel incorporates a Grade I listed medieval tower.

Clustered on the edge of a spectacular tidal estuary, this mansion house hotel – the focal point of Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis’s Italianate village – has welcomed guests including H G Wells, George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell.

Charmingly intimate, Melanie and Colin Dawson’s ‘wonderful little restaurant-with-rooms’ is in a Georgian stone-built property near the scenic Elan valley.

The friendly owners ‘go the extra mile’ at their well-restored Pembrokeshire longhouse, a short drive from a pleasant market town.

With easy access to the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path and the beach, Julia and Stuart Adams’s tranquil ranch-style B&B nestles in a forested valley, on the edge of the National Trust’s Colby Woodland Garden.