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 serves delicious food and has great walks from the door to help you justify eating it.

Occupying two waterfront former warehouses, this maritime-themed hotel has bedrooms modelled on captains' cabins and lined with reclaimed timbers.

Readers consistently praise this owner-run B&B with immaculate and generously supplied rooms in a single-storey building, beautifully maintained gardens with stream and wildlife pond, and, by arrangement, dinner cooked by caring and attentive hosts.

This Georgian house might be on Newport's main street, but it makes a great base from which to explore the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park and the Preseli Hills, say readers. Hosts Judith and Michael Cooper, who welcome guests with tea or coffee and homemade Welsh cakes, can advise on the 'fabulous walks nearby'.

Bedrooms with outdoor space and kitchenette occupy converted outbuildings at this unusual, dog-friendly B&B set in gardens ten minutes from the beach. A cooked-to-order breakfast is served in the Victorian farmhouse dining room.

A former coaching inn, this top-notch B&B with secluded back garden combines hotel-quality accommodation with the warmth and intimacy of an owner-run guest house.

With the canal on one side and River Dee and steam railway on the other, this Victorian townhouse is a stylish, immaculately presented, adults only B&B.

It might not be as grand as its Isle of Wight namesake, but this Victorian house is now an extraordinarily opulent B&B, and guests have use of the spa and other facilities at big sister venture The Empire.

Brothers Rhys and Rhodri Davies have created six beautiful, Scandi-chic bedrooms in a Georgian corner house across the road from their popular bar and restaurant, purveyors of the famous Hive honey ice cream.

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

Inspired by Spain's historic state-owned venues, this boutique hotel has a thrillingly authentic Andalusian vibe and uniquely styled bedrooms, with relaxed modern dining in Asador 44 restaurant, where meat and seafood are cooked over fire and breakfast brings sherry Welsh cakes and Santiago tart.

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.

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.

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.

On an open plain a short drive from Snowdonia National Park, the Murphy family's country house, well liked by trusted readers, offers comfortable, well-equipped bedrooms, two with patio doors to the garden, and set-price menus of locally sourced dishes.

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.

Tucked away amid woodlands in the Wye valley, Chris and Kirsty Harrod's restaurant with rooms is lauded for Chris's extraordinary Michelin-starred menus of home-grown, locally produced and foraged ingredients, including a vegetarian tasting menu.

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.

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.

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.

There is nothing fusty about Meg and Jaap van Soest's B&B, an Edwardian vicarage with views to the sea which makes a perfect base for walking the Pembrokeshire Coast Path. It has smart house bedrooms and birch huts in an acre of garden, where the hosts serve a locally sourced breakfast with home-baked bread.

A Victorian black-and-white building refurbished for the 21st century above a disused slate quarry and the old Llechwedd mine, this easygoing Snowdonia hotel offers a choice of smart in-house bedrooms for comfort lovers, glamping tents for hardier souls, and off-grid moorland shepherds' huts for a stay on the wild side.

Behind the ornate stucco façade of a Victorian industrialist's summer villa, Gaenor Loftus and Sam Nayar have created a very un-Victorian B&B with nine highly individual bedrooms.

A former coaching inn in the heart of a market town, just a few few miles from the Wales Coast Path, this dog-friendly hotel has smart contemporary bedrooms, a choice of bars, restaurant and courtyard, where you can dine from a menu of small and large plates.