Leave the West Wales coast road, head down a country lane, and you’ve suddenly arrived at this ‘superb’ B&B, a former Victorian farm among ‘delightful grounds’ in ‘complete silence’.

‘An old favourite, a lovely place for a calm and grown-up break.’ It proved a happy return for readers to Glyn and Menna Heulyn’s vivid blue former harbourmaster’s house on the Georgian quayside.

On the Victorian promenade of this university town, Huw and Beth Roberts’s small hotel is fronted by a small lawn with outdoor tables and seating – a fine place to be on a sunny evening’ .

At the end of a long drive, Lisa Hutton’s ‘welcoming’ Italianate villa stands ‘in stunning grounds’, a mile outside Lampeter.

‘This a place to which we would happily return,’ write trusted (and exacting) readers, after a visit to David and Beverley Harrison-Wood’s 19th-century mansion turned eco-friendly guest house.