http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T07:20:34Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Yurts http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/5/2/133145/3496 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/treebonesyurts500.jpg" class="top"><p><i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1fGNCvZL_w">Remember The Thrills?</a></i> <p>It says a lot about the place you&#146;re staying when a yurt is the pedestrian option, but that&#146;s how we felt when we booked two nights at <a href='http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel/local/4860'><B>Treebones Resort</b></a> the week before last. <p>See, the reason we were really heading up to Big Sur was because we wanted to stay in The Nest &#150; the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/4/22/21201/1826/hotels/Flying_The_Nest_Isn_t_Easy_When_It_s_In_Big_Surhuman-sized birds nest/">treehouse perched on a bluff</a> overlooking Highway 1 and the Pacific. But, thanks to its being booked up months in advance, The Nest was only free on our second night. So the first, we luxed up in a yurt. <p>Our yurt, 12, qualified as a <strong>partial ocean view</strong> &#150; although we didn&#146;t get much enjoyment juliab 2011-05-02T15:02:09-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/4/22/21201/1826 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/21888/nestfd.jpg" class="top"> <p>There are hotels that look like <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/7/27/01728/3995/hotels/HotelChatter_s_10_Ugliest_Hotels_Alive_">Chinese gods</a>, motels <a href="http://www.dogbarkparkinn.com/">in the shape of a dog</a> and now we present our lodging from last Monday night: a <strong>human-sized bird&#146;s nest perched on top of Highway 1 in Big Sur</strong>. <p>The treehouse, which is actually called <b>The Nest</b> is one of the accommodation options at <a href='http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel/local/4860'><b>Treebones Resort</b></a> &#150; you can either choose a yurt (more on those another time), full-on camping, or this. Although, if you book the nest, you&#146;ll be required to pitch a tent just below it, in case the weather&#146;s too bad to sleep in the nest (it&#146;s bang on a ridge overlooking Highway 1 and the Pacific, so it&#146;s the windiest part juliab 2011-04-25T09:32:05-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/6/83558/64295 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Yurts_at_Treebones.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>We passed on <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1/20/224815/236/hotels/Peter_Greenberg_s_Tips_Yurts_in_California">Peter Greenberg's tips</a> about the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Treebones+Resort/local/1074"><b>Treebones Resort</b></a> in Big Sur a short while ago, and now this collection of yurts has made it onto a list from <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Budget%20Travel%20magazine">Budget Travel</a> magazine too: a list of accommodations in Big Sur for under $200 a night.</p><p>The odd thing about Treebones is that the owners never intended to build a hotel or resort of any kind. They bought the land there to retire on, and then discovered that new planning laws prevented them from simply building a house. And gradually the idea of the yurts developed--because they didn't want a "normal hotel"--and Treebones as we now know it, 16 simple wooden yurts and a lodge--came amandak 2008-05-07T09:20:02-05:00 48.431423 -93.789550 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/