HotelChatter || Cubicle Dreamin': 'Whole Weed Bread' at the Tree House Lodge

Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? Send the story our way.

In this episode, Hotel Maven Jennifer Merritt takes a tree-hugger trip. Enjoy.

Lately I've been irritating my editor on purpose, in the hopes that she'll get really annoyed and tell me to go climb a tree, to which I'll say, "Assignment time!" break out the company card and head down to Tree House Lodge in Costa Rica, a 10-acre oceanfront property on Punta Uva beach.

Because I'm a good employee, I'd eschew the more costly seven-day "Relaxing" package for the three-day one, which includes airport transfers, accommodation, a beachside massage, daily yoga classes on the beach and one afternoon energy balance, which--even though I'm not quite sure what that means--has me intrigued.

The package is $2,070 for two people and since the only other person I can think of who would be into such a thing is my hippie-dippy mom, I guess she gets to come along.

The tree house is perfect for New-Age hippies like my mom and me, i.e., people who strive to be eco-friendly but also enjoy daily showers and a flushing toilet. The Tree House Lodge, located in the Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge, is made from recycled materials and uses solar heating and electricity. No trees were harmed in its creation; only wood from fallen trees was used to make the lofty lodging.

Of the tree house's two rooms, I'd take the upstairs one with the private bath, which has a 100-year-old tree growing through it. After we'd settled in, we'd head to one of the two small groceries just a five-minute's walk from the lodge, to stock up on food for the kitchen.

The lodge's web site says the stores carry fresh milk products, vegetables and homemade "whole weed bread." Again, not quite sure what that means, but I'm definitely intrigued.

Now, if those restful three days won't make me less annoying, then I don't know what will.

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