‘Blessed to be in the beautiful Cothi valley, surrounded by Brechfa Forest’, this 16th-century country house hotel has the feeling of a private home.

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.

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.

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

Within meandering reach, down green lanes and pathways, of the Glamorgan Heritage Coast, this modern hotel is in a quiet town, that was once an unrivalled centre of scholarship.

There's no mobile signal to distract you at Susan and Bryan Webb’s restaurant-with-rooms overlooking the peaceful Vale of Edeyrnion, which means you can concentrate on the excellent food.

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.

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.

On the breezy St David’s peninsula overlooking St Bride’s Bay, a 19th-century windmill tower forms the striking centrepiece to a contemporary art hotel.

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

At the top of one of the world’s steepest streets, this inn occupies two 16th Century buildings just above Edward I’s formidable castle (faint hearts, take the High Street route).

Close to St David's and its cathedral, this tranquil retreat is enveloped by acres of landscaped gardens, woodland paths, a river and a wildflower meadow.

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

With views to the sea and hills of North Pembrokeshire, and minutes from the region's Coastal Path, Meg and Jaap van Soest’s airy B&B suits walkers and those wanting a quiet escape.