‘Relaxed and comfortable’, this ‘lovely, wacky’ hotel overlooking Cardigan Bay is ‘ideal for rest, fresh air, beach and coastal walks’.

What first smites the eye is the town’s medieval castle, formidable on its cliff-top. Steps behind it, this restaurant-with-rooms – in two adjoining 16th-century buildings restored and refurbished with contemporary flair – is no less of a surprise.

‘More than a B&B, this is a home that welcomes you for bed and breakfast.’

Steps from the Victorian pier, Elyse and Michael Waddy’s 19th-century house takes in the ‘elegant sweep’ of the promenade at this popular seaside resort.

Landscaped grounds lead down to Bala Lake from Katrina Le Saux and Peter Cottee’s Victorian house in Snowdonia national park, with a vista of mountains in the blue distance.

Rustic and folksy, Paula and Peter Thompson’s ‘quirky’ 16th-century farmhouse at the base of the Rhinog mountains is a ‘friendly, welcoming’ spot and a fine base for exploring a ‘lovely part of the country’.

In walkers’ country, within the Snowdonia national park, this handsome Victorian rectory stands in a market town at the foot of Cadair Idris.

In the Tal-y-llyn valley, with Cadair Idris for a backdrop, Alex Yorke and Lorraine Hinkins are the ‘dedicated hosts’ at this 18th-century farmhouse–turned–‘exceptional guest house’.

Gazing over the Mawddach estuary from the foot of a tree-covered hillside, this ‘stunning, ultra-modern B&B’ is owned by Sara and Richard Parry-Jones.

On the edge of Snowdonia national park, this historic mansion, lavishly refurbished, is today a sumptuous country house hotel rich in antiques, plush fabrics, fine wood panelling and painted ceilings.

Between the mountains and the sea, the former country home of the Armstrong-Jones family is today a luxurious B&B run by ‘delightful owners’ Neil and Marco Soares-Baines.

Fun, contemporary and cool, Sam Nayar and Gaenor Loftus’s style-conscious B&B occupies a white-stucco Victorian villa on the gentle slopes of the Great Orme in this seaside resort.

In sheep-grazed countryside on the Isle of Anglesey, this quirky, ‘much-enjoyed’ restaurant-with-rooms is in a converted stone-built barn and granary, with glorious views to Snowdonia.

Behind a Georgian facade, this 17th-century inn in the seaside town is today a ‘well-run hotel’ with ‘excellent accommodation’.

In parkland, woods and meadows below Offa’s Dyke, Bre and Graham Carrington-Sykes cater for all sorts.

Built over 50 years, from 1925, by Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis, Portmeirion, the Italianate village, grew up behind this Victorian mansion, now a hotel that ‘combines old-world touches with stylish modernity’.

Lynn Cunnah-Watson and Tim Watson’s handsomely refurbished sandstone inn in the Elwy valley is a ‘delightful, relaxed hideaway’.