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.

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.

A rustic beach-house vibe breezes through this restaurant-with-rooms in a small seaside village in the south-west of Anglesey.

A Georgian front belies the history of this ancient coaching inn, part of its fabric dating from the 1500s, in a town at the eastern entrance to the Menai Strait.

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.