Best romantic hotels in Wales

You would need a heart of stone not to be charmed by the creeper-covered facade of this Strawberry Hill Gothic house, with its pretty ogee windows, decorative eaves and hilltop position above gardens tumbling to the sea.

Huddled below wooded hills, beside a stone bridge over the River Monnow, this whitewashed former 17th-century coaching inn is delightfully at ease in the landscape.

A 19th-century Italianate villa in 14-acre grounds, with views across the gently rolling Teifi valley, is today a hotel and popular wedding venue with an in-house beauty parlour and romance in its very fabric.

On the edge of Snowdonia National Park, this stately Victorian mansion, with its tower, tall chimneys and terraced lawns, does not disappoint once inside.

High above the town, a modern hotel with ‘exceptional’ seascapes, as restorative, perhaps, as the calm that washes over guests in the award-winning spa.

Above the town, this design-conscious B&B occupies a white stucco Victorian villa close to the Great Orme Tramway.

Overlooking the Tywi estuary, this contemporary restaurant-with-rooms in a restored Georgian mansion is enjoyed for its ‘really lovely hospitality, food and accommodation.’

A ‘narrow and hairy’ road leads to Jan and Pierre Mifsud’s hotel in wooded grounds on the River Irfon, with views to the Cambrian mountains.

A tree-lined drive leads to this ivy-clad country mansion – all tall chimneys, vast bay windows and landscaped gardens, yet its atmosphere is far from starchy.

Peace, stillness and surroundings removed from the buzzing demands of the modern world are guaranteed at this hotel huddled under the Welsh Black mountains.

Turn off a country lane down a tree-lined drive and your tensions will slip away when you glimpse this white stucco building with its pleasing Georgian symmetry.

The centrepiece of an extraordinary Italianate resort village, this Victorian mansion is on wooded slopes above the Dwyryd estuary in glorious Snowdonia.

Standing in graceful seclusion in wooded grounds with a walled garden, this family-friendly Grade I listed manor house offers a tranquil country retreat combining Georgian elegance and modern comforts.

On a rocky outcrop, high above the Pembrokeshire landscape, stands a 12th Century castle with contemporary B&B accommodation and spectacular panoramas.