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.

Huddled below wooded hills, beside a stone bridge over the River Monnow, this whitewashed former 17th-century coaching inn is delightfully at ease in the landscape.

Upstaging all the rainbow-hued waterfront houses in a planned Georgian town overlooking Cardigan Bay, this unabashedly blue-fronted boutique hotel is an iconic landmark.

Eluned Rowlands welcomes guests to her B&B on the edge of Snowdonia with tea, Welsh cakes and warmth.

In the rolling mid-Wales countryside, Tim and Helen Withers’ Victorian red brick vicarage is a welcoming base from which to explore a ‘wonderful but little-visited part of the world’.

A 19th-century Italianate villa in 14-acre grounds, with views across the gently rolling Teifi valley, is today a hotel and popular wedding venue with an in-house beauty parlour and romance in its very fabric.

On the edge of Snowdonia National Park, this stately Victorian mansion, with its tower, tall chimneys and terraced lawns, does not disappoint once inside.

Eco-friendly heating is newly installed at this peaceful, relaxed restaurant-with-rooms, run by the Evans family with ‘warm concern for their guests’.

High above the town, a modern hotel with ‘exceptional’ seascapes, as restorative, perhaps, as the calm that washes over guests in the award-winning spa.

A favourite watering hole of Dylan Thomas, this refurbished 18th Century inn, in a lively coastal town, remains a characterful place.

Overlooking the Tywi estuary, this contemporary restaurant-with-rooms in a restored Georgian mansion is enjoyed for its ‘really lovely hospitality, food and accommodation.’

A tree-lined drive leads to this ivy-clad country mansion – all tall chimneys, vast bay windows and landscaped gardens, yet its atmosphere is far from starchy.

Turn off a country lane down a tree-lined drive and your tensions will slip away when you glimpse this white stucco building with its pleasing Georgian symmetry.

On the breezy St David’s peninsula overlooking St Bride’s Bay, a 19th-century windmill tower forms the striking centrepiece to a contemporary art hotel.

The centrepiece of an extraordinary Italianate resort village, this Victorian mansion is on wooded slopes above the Dwyryd estuary in glorious Snowdonia.

Standing in graceful seclusion in wooded grounds with a walled garden, this family-friendly Grade I listed manor house offers a tranquil country retreat combining Georgian elegance and modern comforts.

Close to St David's and its cathedral, this tranquil retreat is enveloped by acres of landscaped gardens, woodland paths, a river and a wildflower meadow.

On a rocky outcrop, high above the Pembrokeshire landscape, stands a 12th Century castle with contemporary B&B accommodation and spectacular panoramas.