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On the promenade, this small, family-owned hotel is furnished with ‘impressive grandeur’, from the ‘splendid’ public rooms, all oil paintings and gilded mirrors, to the sea-facing suites on its upper floors.

There’s a touch of fun at Sam Nayar and Gaenor Loftus’s design-conscious B&B, in a white stucco Victorian villa just up the street from the Great Orme Tramway.

A beach-house vibe breezes through Louise and Phil Goodwin’s restaurant-with-rooms, in a seaside village on the Anglesey Coast Path.

In a lively seaside town known equally for its medieval castle and its ice cream parlour, this ancient coaching inn is today a ‘friendly’ hotel with updated bedrooms, a stylish restaurant, and a well-preserved pub whose wonky doors, open fireplace and old photographs create much atmosphere.

Amid the architectural astonishment that is Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis’s Italianate village, on the edge of a tidal estuary, this early Victorian villa is today a ‘comfortably furnished’ hotel run with ‘friendly, welcoming’ staff.