‘In a small village in a valley, surrounded by forest walks’, Annabel and Stephen Thomas’s 16th-century country house is ‘ideal for guests wishing to holiday with their four-legged friend’.

Friendly and welcoming as ever, this B&B is run by second-generation owners Michael and Judith Cooper, and their son, Oliver.

Embedded firmly in the Wye valley, Chris and Kirsty Harrod’s Michelin-starred restaurant-with-rooms again delighted readers’ taste buds in 2018.

‘A great base for exploring,’ Richard Ireton and Sarah Hudson’s ‘pleasing, white-painted coaching inn’ stands overlooking an old stone bridge across the River Monmow, while ‘behind it, green hills gently rise’.

Ecclesiastical historians rejoice! In the ‘romantic’ setting of a vertiginous valley beneath the Black mountains, this ‘atmospheric’ small hotel partly occupies an ivy-clad medieval tower. It is one of four Grade 1 listed buildings in the ruined priory’s precincts.

High on a clifftop, overlooking Penarth Pier and the Bristol Channel, a nursing home in a Victorian suburb has been converted into a pleasant hotel with spa facilities.

‘Ten gold stars’ glitter among a constellation of guests’ praise for the ‘wonderful’ B&B with its ‘aura of tranquillity’ and views over the Preseli hills.

‘Our third visit.’ Readers tempted back this year to celebrity chef Stephen Terry’s restaurant-with-rooms – a reinvention of a ‘grotty roadside pub’ – found everything to their liking.

With a Michelin star and ‘spectacular’ views of the Severn estuary and famous pier from a prime spot on Penarth’s late Victorian esplanade, James Sommerin’s family-run restaurant-with-rooms is ‘a very pleasant place to stay’.

In the centre of a small town described by resident scribe Dylan Thomas as a 'timeless, mild, beguiling island', visitors can stay in a former pub where the poet once told stories in exchange for a little refreshment.

With extensive views over the Tywi estuary, David and Wendy Beaney’s Georgian restaurant-with-rooms has brought ‘stylish minimalism down to a fine art’.

This recently renovated 17th-century country house is close to the centre of a historic village and the Glamorgan Heritage Coast.

A walk through a wooded valley up from the sea leads to this imposing Edwardian vicarage above the village.

In the middle of their Pembrokeshire working farm, the Evans family ‘warmly welcomes’ visitors to their laid-back, pleasingly rustic restaurant-with-rooms.

Long a popular stopover, this well-located hotel has for centuries been the hub of a fashionable, cobbled market town surrounded by the cow-flecked fields of the Vale of Glamorgan.

Riverside ambles and ‘by far the best breakfast of our holiday’ draw fans to this ‘very good’ B&B in a well-restored Pembrokeshire longhouse, a short drive from a pleasant market town.

There’s much to shout about at this long-established, family-run restaurant-with-rooms in a pretty village of artisan shops and galleries.

Visitors to this ‘glossy luxury B&B’ are met with ‘an unexpected wow factor, as you walk through the door’.

Off the beaten path, Julia and Stuart Adams’s ranch-style B&B close to the sea is a tranquil change from nearby resort town Saundersfoot.

The royal treatment awaits visitors to this stylishly refurbished Victorian town house hotel; a butler, a personal chef and a chauffeur-driven vintage Rolls-Royce are at the ready, if required.