Guide readers are unswervingly loyal to this family-friendly country house by the sea, with peerless views to Snowdonia across Cardigan Bay, run by the Fletcher-Brewer family since opening in 1948.

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

In wooded grounds on the edge of Snowdonia National Park, this neo-Jacobean Victorian mansion, which once hosted Winston Churchill (he'd have liked the whisky and cigar lounge), has lavish bedrooms and suites in high traditional style, an all-day bar menu and fine-dining restaurant.

A 19th-century Italianate villa in 14-acre grounds, with 'breathtaking views' across the gently rolling Teifi valley, is today a hotel and popular wedding venue where polished wood floors, deep armchairs and soothing paintwork is 'reminiscent of a long-ago time of gracious and easy living', writes our inspector.

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.

A Victorian mock-Tudor fishing lodge in wooded grounds on the River Irfon is today a spa hotel and foodie destination with a country-house ambience and views to the Cambrian mountains.

Kindly hostess Eluned Rowlands welcomes guests to her B&B – a stylishly renovated granite cowshed on the edge of Snowdonia –with tea and Welsh cakes, supplies bedrooms with fresh fruit and sherry, and serves a good Aga-cooked breakfast.

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.

The sands of time have seen changes at this formerly drab Edwardian seaside guesthouse, which is now enjoying a new lease of life as a contemporary beach hotel, bar and restaurant, with high-quality, individually designed bedrooms, and modern cooking, including gluten-fee and vegan menus.

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.

There is nowhere in the world quite like Sir Clough Williams-Ellis's Italianate resort village, where hotel bedrooms are spread around various properties, centred on a Victorian mansion on wooded slopes above the sandy beaches of the Dwyryd estuary.

The former home of the late Sir Bernard Ashley and his wife, the designer Laura Ashley, dating from the 1600s and remodelled in Edwardian Lutenesque style, is replete with country-house comforts, and is home to Sir Bernard's significant art collection and to a fine-dining restaurant.

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.

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 are magnificent views over Cardiff and across the sea to Devon from this hotel just north of the city, in a Georgian industrialist's mansion with the air of a country retreat, offering colourful contemporary bedrooms and modern cooking.

There is a spirit of inclusiveness about this family friendly, dog friendly, singularly accessible clifftop hotel and spa, with a wide range of rooms and suites, from cheap and cheerful to luxury, and a menu to suit most tastes.

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.

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.

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.