The Ring Pub, Rhos-y-bol

The Ring is a traditional free house at Rhosgoch, in the Rhos-y-bol area of northern Anglesey, with four bedrooms upstairs and a kitchen downstairs doing home-cooked food from local suppliers. There are only four rooms, each named after somewhere on the island, so the place runs at the scale of a village pub rather than a hotel, and dogs fit into that easily. Breakfast is cooked to order in the morning, and the bar and restaurant are open in the evening.

What dog owners come back for is the welcome. Guests travelling with dogs describe staff as genuinely accommodating rather than merely tolerant, and several return to the island year after year and book here again because of it. The rooms are warm and well kept, with small touches - a hospitality tray, toiletries, a good bed - that people notice, and the standard holds up across a large body of feedback: the property scores 9.4 out of 10 across more than four hundred guest reviews.

The terms are simpler than at most pubs with rooms: dogs are welcome in all of the bed and breakfast rooms, and the charge is a flat fifteen pounds per stay rather than a nightly supplement. What is not published is how many dogs a room will take, or which parts of the pub they may sit in, so it is worth asking specifically about the bar and dining room when you book, since eating with your dog rather than in your room is a large part of what makes a pub with rooms work.

The setting suits a walking holiday. Rhosgoch is inland in the quiet north of the island, within easy reach of Amlwch, Mynydd Parys and the Anglesey Coast Path, and the surrounding lanes are quiet enough for an early or late walk. The pub also runs glamping pods and a touring site, so the grounds are used to dogs coming and going.

The Ring suits dog owners who want a proper pub base for the north of Anglesey, with food worth staying in for and staff who will make a fuss of the dog.