'If you have yet to discover Ael-y-Bryn then you are missing out on a gem,' reads one of many positive reports on this adults-only B&B in countryside outside the village of 'Egg-lis-oo-roo', with views to the Preseli hills and Carningli mountain.

Tucked away amid woodlands in the Wye valley, Chris and Kirsty Harrod's restaurant-with-rooms is lauded for Chris's extraordinary tasting menus of locally sourced, home-grown and foraged ingredients.

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.

'It is a treat' to stay in this 'wonderful B&B', writes a reader of this Georgian house on Newport's main street. It makes an ideal base from which to explore the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park and hosts Judith and Michael Cooper, who welcome guests with tea or coffee and home-made Welsh cakes, can advise on the 'fabulous walks nearby'.

Trained chef Alan Latter welcomes guests to this B&B on the organic dairy farm where he grew up, with characterful bedrooms, including one converted horsebox, and food sourced on the very doorstep.

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

Overlooking St Bride's Bay, a 19th-century windmill tower forms the centrepiece of this contemporary art hotel with a wide choice of generously supplied bedrooms, and a restaurant serving creative, modern dishes.

Currently closed for updating by its new owners, this hotel huddles under the Welsh Black mountains, where peace, stillness and surroundings removed from the buzzing demands of the modern world are guaranteed. The hotel is due to re-open in April.

The farmhouse on the Evans family's working farm has been elegantly styled with wallpaper and furnishings faithful to its Georgian origins, while outbuildings have been used to create more rustic-chic suites.

In a hillside glade, this once-derelict country house has been beautifully made over, with attention to guests' comfort, real fires, good textiles, fine dining restaurant and simpler artisan fare.

High above the town, a modern hotel with 'exceptional' seascapes that are as restorative, perhaps, as the calm that washes over guests in the award-winning spa.

There is nothing chintzy about this B&B, an Edwardian vicarage with views to the sea, where the hosts serve a locally sourced breakfast with home-baked bread and can provide a tapas hamper for supper.

A 12th-century castle on a rocky outcrop is the unlikely setting for this smart contemporary B&B with ancient features, modern luxuries and free transfers to Blas restaurant at sister hotel Twr y Felin.

Peter O'Toole, Patti Smith and Pierce Brosnan have all beaten a path to Dylan Thomas's former watering hole, home to boutique-style bedrooms, Welsh ales, and a restaurant serving flame grills.

In landscaped gardens, with woodland path, river and meadow, this Victorian Tudorbethan rectory has modern interiors, dramatic abstract artworks, cosseting touches, and complimentary transfer to restaurant Blas at sister hotel Twr y Felin.

Spruce, modern bedrooms occupy a lake-view lodge and single-storey barns set around a courtyard at this excellent family-run B&B in countryside three miles from Narberth.