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.

Occupying two waterfront former warehouses, part of the town's maritime heritage, this new hotel has bedrooms modelled on captains' cabins and lined with reclaimed timbers.

You could not wish for a more glorious location than you find at Lorraine Hinkins and Alex Yorke's 18th-century farmhouse B&B, with views to Cader Idris and Tal-y-llyn lake.

'It is a treat' to stay in this 'wonderful B&B', writes a reader of this Georgian house on Newport's main street. It makes an ideal base from which to explore the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park and hosts Judith and Michael Cooper, who welcome guests with tea or coffee and home-made Welsh cakes, can advise on the 'fabulous walks nearby'.

'If you have yet to discover Ael-y-Bryn then you are missing out on a gem,' reads one of many positive reports on this adults-only B&B in countryside outside the village of 'Egg-lis-oo-roo', with views to the Preseli hills and Carningli mountain.

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.

The chef holds a Michelin green star for his superb tasting menus at this neo-Jacobean Victorian country pile in wooded grounds on the edge of Snowdonia National Park, where past guests have included Queen Victoria and Winston Churchill.

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.

There is a spirit of inclusiveness about this family-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.

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

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.

In the foothills of Snowdonia, this family-run country house hotel has comfortable, traditional bedrooms and imaginative dishes served by delightful staff in the restaurant or conservatory.

Bedrooms are spread between properties in Clough Williams-Ellis's extraordinary Italianate resort village, but this hotel centres on a Victorian mansion with Art Deco bar and fine-dining restaurant.

The farmhouse on the Evans family's working farm has been elegantly styled with wallpaper and furnishings faithful to its Georgian origins, while outbuildings have been used to create more rustic-chic suites.

Overlooking St Bride's Bay, a 19th-century windmill tower forms the centrepiece of this contemporary art hotel with a wide choice of generously supplied bedrooms, and a restaurant serving creative, modern dishes.

In a hillside glade, this once-derelict country house has been beautifully made over, with attention to guests' comfort, real fires, good textiles, fine dining restaurant and simpler artisan fare.

Bedrooms occupy converted outbuildings at this unusual B&B set in gardens ten minutes from beaches, each with outdoor space and kitchenette, where breakfast is served in the Victorian farmhouse dining room.

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.

Nostalgia seeker or adrenaline junkie? Zip wire thrills, underground explorations and mountain bike trails lie on the doorstep of this easy-going hotel on UNESCO's newest World heritage site in Snowdonia.

In landscaped gardens, with woodland path, river and meadow, this Victorian Tudorbethan rectory has modern interiors, dramatic abstract artworks, cosseting touches, and complimentary transfer to restaurant Blas at sister hotel Twr y Felin.

Peter O'Toole, Patti Smith and Pierce Brosnan have all beaten a path to Dylan Thomas's former watering hole, home to boutique-style bedrooms, Welsh ales, and a restaurant serving flame grills.

A 12th-century castle on a rocky outcrop is the unlikely setting for this smart contemporary B&B with ancient features, modern luxuries and free transfers to Blas restaurant at sister hotel Twr y Felin.

Two 16th-century buildings above the medieval castle combine as one inn with seven well-presented bedrooms, an aviation-themed bar, and a restaurant serving modern British cooking with a Thai twist.

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.

Spruce, modern bedrooms occupy a lake-view lodge and single-storey barns set around a courtyard at this excellent family-run B&B in countryside three miles from Narberth.

In gardens and parkland, this splendid, family-friendly Georgian manor house with many original features offers spacious bedrooms, sumptuous suites, and bistro fare.

There is nothing chintzy about this B&B, an Edwardian vicarage with views to the sea, where the hosts serve a locally sourced breakfast with home-baked bread and can provide a tapas hamper for supper.