A Welsh rarebit on the tip of Cardigan Bay, this ‘lovely, wacky’ hotel is a family-friendly, family-run affair.

‘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.

In a sylvan setting on the remote Lleyn peninsula, Gunna and Chris Chown’s Georgian country house has enchanted guests for over 30 years.

On ‘one of the steepest, narrowest streets’ in a ‘town of sudden vistas’, just above the castle, this restaurant-with-rooms has been run by chef/patron Glyn Roberts and his wife, Jacqueline, since 1989.

The leafy, flower-lined drive is a colourful welcome to Gary and Lindsay Ashcroft’s part-Georgian rectory on the Llyn peninsula.

‘On a sunny evening the effect of the clarity of the light, the pastel-coloured houses and the harbour is reminiscent of Brittany.’

Expect a thoroughly ‘warm’ ‘croeso’ at Eluned Rowlands’s B&B on the edge of Snowdonia. Welsh is the lingua franca of this converted cowshed, which is imbued with local culture and heritage.

On the ‘upmarket Victorian promenade’ of a university town, Huw and Beth Roberts’s hotel is ‘brightly presented’, with ‘tables and chairs on a small lawn facing the sea’.

‘The best of its kind.’ Standing in an ‘appealing’ village is Edward and Louise Sykes’s small, ‘equally professional and personable’ Georgian restaurant-with-rooms.

There are ‘stunning’ views of Bala Lake and Arenig mountain from the bedrooms of this Victorian house on a hillside in Snowdonia national park.

‘Intimate and eccentric’, this one-time cottage hospital on a ‘testing’ country lane has been converted into a ‘stylish’ rural guest house at the foot of Cadair Idris.

With Tal-y-llyn lake practically in the back garden, Cadair Idris behind, and ‘some of the finest walks in any national park’, Alex Yorke and Lorraine Hinkins’s Snowdonia B&B wins praise again this year.

‘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.

Surrounded by ‘handsome’ gardens bursting with rhododendrons, this ‘striking’ Italianate villa is a peaceful spot in an idyllic setting.

‘Welcoming hosts’ David and Beverley Harrison-Wood collect praise for their ‘very friendly, well-presented guest house’.

‘The name means “leg of stone”,’ a Guide inspector tells us – a reference to the rocks on and over which this ‘fabulous, ultra-modern’ B&B is built.

Rich in antiques, fine wood panelling and painted ceilings. this sumptuous, well-refurbished country house hotel, in an historic Victorian manor house, lies on the edge of Snowdonia national park.

On a secluded farmstead, Hilary and Stephen Murphy and daughter, Laura, run this hotel 'in lovely countryside' overlooking the Isle of Anglesey.

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

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.

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’.

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