‘In a beautiful setting’ in wooded grounds, with trout lake and the River Irfon running through it, Jean-Pierre Mifsud’s hotel is especially praised for its ‘location, ambience and welcoming staff’.

Leave the West Wales coast road, head down a country lane, and you’ve suddenly arrived at this ‘superb’ B&B, a former Victorian farm among ‘delightful grounds’ in ‘complete silence’.

‘An old favourite, a lovely place for a calm and grown-up break.’ It proved a happy return for readers to Glyn and Menna Heulyn’s vivid blue former harbourmaster’s house on the Georgian quayside.

‘An absolute gem!’ wrote a reader, of this ‘stunning country house’, the former home of the Armstrong-Jones family, with views to the Menai Strait and Snowdonia on the doorstep.

‘An example of what a British seaside hotel can do.’ Trusted readers were impressed by Lindsey and Andrew Evans’s coastal property, created with an ‘ambition, vision and style one might associate with California or Australia’.

Coes Faen means ‘leg of stone’, bringing to mind Shelley’s Ozymandias, but there is no vainglory at Sara and Richard Parry-Jones’s adults-only hotel overlooking the Mawddach estuary.

At the foot of Snowdonia, the Pullees’ ‘eccentric’ hotel is run by the same family who hosted Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay as they trained to climb Everest, and not a lot has changed since.

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

‘Overall, a very enjoyable stay.’ With extensive views over the Tywi estuary, David and Wendy Beaney’s restaurant-with-rooms brings ‘stylish minimalism down to a fine art’.

‘Not quite the back of beyond’, but this restaurant-with-rooms ‘in a very pleasant, quiet, rural location’ is well worth the trek, according to trusted Guide readers.

A Georgian front belies the history of this ancient coaching inn, part of its fabric dating from the 1500s, in a town at the eastern entrance to the Menai Strait.

In a ‘lovely location on the quiet seafront’, with views over the Severn estuary and the pier pavilion with its Mughal-style roof, James Sommerin and family run this acclaimed restaurant-with-rooms.

Clustered on the edge of a spectacular tidal estuary, this mansion house hotel – the focal point of Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis’s Italianate village – has welcomed guests including H G Wells, George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell.

On a secluded farmstead, Hilary and Stephen Murphy and daughter Laura's hotel is ‘in lovely countryside’ overlooking the Isle of Anglesey.

Across from the seafront, this long-established, family-run restaurant-with-rooms is helmed by two husband-and-wife teams, Sally and Dean Fuller, Sally’s sister, Catherine Walsh and her husband, Patrick.

In an ‘attractive rural setting’ outside the town, chef/patron Stephen Terry has transformed a former roadside pub into a destination restaurant-with-rooms.

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

Inconspicuous amid shops, bars and restaurants, this quirky hotel, alchemised out of an old office block, sits on a pedestrianised street, close to the station and castle.