Huddled below wooded hills, beside a stone bridge over the River Monnow, this whitewashed former 17th-century coaching inn serves delicious food and has great walks from the door to help you justify eating it.

Readers consistently praise this owner-run B&B with immaculate and generously supplied rooms in a single-storey building, beautifully maintained gardens with stream and wildlife pond, and, by arrangement, dinner cooked by caring and attentive hosts.

This Georgian house might be on Newport's main street, but it makes a great base from which to explore the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park and the Preseli Hills, say readers. Hosts Judith and Michael Cooper, who welcome guests with tea or coffee and homemade Welsh cakes, can advise on the 'fabulous walks nearby'.

Overlooking the Tywi estuary, this contemporary restaurant with rooms in a restored Georgian mansion is rated by readers for its hospitality, food and accommodation.

At the heart of a working farm, this Georgian farmhouse hotel and wedding venue with a hairdressing salon in the grounds offers highly individual bedrooms and food cooked with flair.

Overlooking St Bride's Bay, a 19th-century windmill tower forms the centrepiece and unlikely setting of this contemporary art hotel, where the 100-plus works on show may divide opinion, but the well-supplied and stylish bedrooms, friendly service and creative, modern dishes in the restaurant win unanimous approval.

New owners Annabel and Jamie Windsor-Medley have refreshed the simple but historic bedrooms at this unlikely pub, which occupies the original prior's quarters for a 12th-century Augustinian Priory, serving meals in the Cellar Bar, and making plans for dark-sky events and theatre in the grounds against the backdrop of evocative ruins and the Black Mountains.

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

Down a tree-lined drive, amid meadows and mature garden, this romantic and secluded Georgian country house has cosseting bedrooms with a modern touch, suites in cottage annexes, two with a glass-box lounge, and both a fine-dining restaurant and a brasserie.

Peter O'Toole, Patti Smith and Pierce Brosnan have all beaten a path to Dylan Thomas's former watering hole, an 18th-century inn in a lively coastal town, home to boutique-style bedrooms, Welsh ales, and a restaurant serving flame grills.

Spruce, modern bedrooms, some with conservatory seating area, occupy a lake-view lodge and single-storey barns set around a courtyard at this family-run B&B in countryside three miles from Narberth, where guests can order charcuterie and pizzas to eat in their room or on the patio.

In landscaped gardens, with woodland path, river and meadow, this Victorian Tudorbethan rectory has modern interiors, dramatic abstract artworks inspired by the local landscapes, holistic treatments, Qi Gong meditation instruction, and complimentary transfer to restaurant Blas at sister hotel Twr y Felin.

There is nothing fusty about Meg and Jaap van Soest's B&B, an Edwardian vicarage with views to the sea which makes a perfect base for walking the Pembrokeshire Coast Path. It has smart house bedrooms and birch huts in an acre of garden, where the hosts serve a locally sourced breakfast with home-baked bread.

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.

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.

A 12th-century castle on a rocky outcrop is the unlikely setting for this smart contemporary B&B with ancient features, modern luxuries, artworks inspired by Welsh history and landscapes, panoramic vistas from a fourth-floor viewing platform, and free transfers to Blas restaurant at sister hotel Twr y Felin.