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The Canopy Tree House Suite: The Best Room in The Entire Forest
HotelChatter love love loves Treehouse Hotels. We don't know why. Maybe we watched the "Swiss Family Robinson" way too many times on the Disney Channel growing up. But either way, we love 'em and this new Canopy Tree House Suite at the Inkaterra Reserva Amazonica in Peru has us extremely giddy.
If you're looking to spice up your next hotel stay, you must book this suite which sits 90 feet above the forest floor and offers up close and personal viewing of toucans, monkeys, orchids and fauna. But it's not just a wooden plank that's been plopped into a tree and secured by a few nails. No, the thatched roof and wooden treehouse is not only exclusive but a little ritzy too. Well, as ritzy as you can get in a rainforest.
From the hotel:
The Tree House can only be accessed via Inkaterra’s existing Canopy Walk network and is serviced by a dedicated Canopy Butler reachable via walkie-talkie. Meals, excursions, and sundowners on the Canopy Walk network can be arranged by your butler.
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Up Where We Belong at Cedar Creek Treehouse
Get high, 50 feet in the sky at Cedar Creek Treehouse. We pinky-swear that the octagonal cabin digs atop this 200-year old Western Red Cedar tree are perhaps the coolest accommodations you’ve ever seen.
Guests brave a towering, five-story giant helix (a.k.a. “Stairway to Heaven”) that leads to the treehouse. The treehouse sleeps up to five people comfortably, with additional space on the fourth floor stairwell observation floor and camping spots below. Don’t expect amenities – electricity is provided by a 12-volt battery, limited supplies of water comes from a well in Ashford, and your fridge is nothing more than your standard issue tailgating ice chest cooler.
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Sweet Suite :: The Tree House Mansion at Kura Hulanda
Treehouse Hotels are a popular sort of breed these days, perfect for tree-huggers, those wishing for an eco-vacation and anyone who ever fancied the Swiss Family Robinson digs.
Now, here's a chance to stay in a Tree House Mansion.
The Lodge Kura Hulanda & Beach Club on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao has opened its two-bedroom, two bathroom treetop suite built atop wooden stilts for hotel guests to rent:
A wooden spiral staircase leads up to the Tree House Mansion and into the open-air living room, which features an authentic, ornate Bali Bridal bed and a wide terrace providing picturesque sunset views over the water.
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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.
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Ultimate Tree Living Freedom In A Free Spirit Sphere
Staying in the top of the trees is becoming a common enough accommodation choice, both for uniqueness and to feel at one with nature. But if you want to really feel green, then try renting one of the Free Spirit Spheres on Vancouver Island. These are definitely funky: to date there are two of them, laminated wood spheres that literally hang from the trees. The spheres each have a name: Eryn and Eve, and the accommodation for each varies:
Eryn has a double bed, cupboard space and counter, settee, sink, microwave and refrigerator. Eve is more spartan, with just a bed. Both have insulation, with bathrooms nearby.
And the longer-term plan is to hang up 15 of these spheres around the forest. For now, you can get Eve for C$100 a night and Eryn for C$150, and multiple-night stays attract a discount. Or if you get really keen and have a backyard with a big tree, you can just buy your own hanging sphere for $150,000.
[Photo: Rosylavie]
Related Stories:
· Where To Sleep In A Tree [Guardian UK]
· Habitat For the Untamed Spirit [Travelizmo]
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French Riviera Style: A Treehouse in St Paul de Vence
The Cannes Film Festival is still a ways off (it starts on May 16) but a reader's recent tip about the French Riviera got us daydreaming about escaping to Cote d'Azure. This week we'll continue talking about some of the hotels worthy of checking into. As always, we wanna know what you think, not just what Uma, Rod Stewart, P.Diddy and Paris Hilton think, of the hotels here. So send us your thoughts and questions or comment below the story, telling us what's right, what's wrong and what's just French.
A few months ago we'd already started dreaming about spending a few nights up in the trees of the Cote d'Azur in the Orion B&B Hotel. This week CNN dug a little deeper into the roots (sorry) of the Orion Treehouse.
Turns out the brainchild of this luxury treehouse accommodation is a Belgian woman named Diane Van den Berge who bought a farmland property on the Cote d'Azur and then wondered what to do with it:
Soon after buying the property she began leafing through design magazines and stumbled across a guesthouse in India where people stayed in treehouses. She knew she'd found an idea to develop her own place ... The next challenge was to find someone who could build such a structure. She thought she would need to seek help abroad, but through Internet research found a suitable builder 200 kilometers away in France.
Four treehouses have been built since 2004 and she's thinking of putting in a fifth. Apart from the baths, massage showers and internet you'll find in the treehouses, the properties are arranged around a self-cleaning, natural swimming pool, copied from one Diane found in Switzerland. Prices start at 180 Euro ($240) including breakfast for a double--it's definitely another affordable alternative to have a stay on the Cote d'Azur without being in the middle of touristy Cannes or Nice.
Related Stories:
· Orion B&B reviews [TripAdvisor]
· Cubicle Dreamin': A Night in a Treehouse [HotelChatter]
· Branching Out With Luxury Treehouses [CNN]
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Cubicle Dreamin': Night in a Treehouse
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 Amanda K conjures up a childhood dream.
When I was a kid, I was always really mad that my parents hadn't bought a house with a big enough tree to build a treehouse in. But now that doesn't matter because some nice people in France have created an even better treehouse for me, at the Orion B&B, featured in this week's Guardian as the "ultimate treehouse". This one includes a whole bathroom and Wifi (not that I knew I wanted Wifi when I was a kid). Or as they put it:
To live in a treehouse, perched high in the branches with the birds, to come face to face with a squirrel on waking, is to see the world from a different angle. A desire born of the need to take your time, to recharge your batteries, to find yourself again. What starts as a treat for children brings out the forgotten child in you.
Perched in trees in Provence, the treehouses are also pretty environmentally friendly--for example, the swimming pool is "naturally cleaned" with gravel and plants instead of chemicals. There are five different luxury treehouses to choose from and if you want to take your childhood pals, you can choose the Colonel Haiti treehouse which sleeps up to 6. And it has a perfect view.
Related Stories:
· St Paul de Vence reviews [TripAdvisor]
· The Ultimate Treehouse [Guardian UK]
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HotelChatter's Mini-Guide to Treehouse Hotels
Some of us at HotelChatter aren't content to sleep in a regular hotel room with four walls and a view of the boulevard. No...occasionally some of us intrepid travelers want to marry their love of adventure and travel to accommodations that are out of the box... and in the clouds.
Here then is a roundup of some of the best -- and worst -- of the world's Treehouse Hotels.
After the jump, check out some of the ways to fulfill your Tarzan fantasy.
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Tree House for One
We've written about this hotel before but we decided to check in on the Hotel Hackspett aka the Woodpecker Hotel.
The brainchild of Swedish artist Mikael Jenberg, the hotel is one room 13 meters high and centrally located in a park of Västerås Sweden--about 100km from Stockholm. Hanging out in there may seem reminiscent of a David Blaine stunt, yet the treehouse confines are private and provide everything you need including a small library and a food delivery pulley system. When you do want to branch out (forgive us) there are two balconies.
Jenberg says of his guests, "often they are a bit puzzled about what to do on their own up there but most of them feel that their time has not been enough when I arrive to help them down."
His love for pushing the confines of reality has led him to create another hotel, the "Otter Inn"--think water this time.
For $95.00 a night the treehouse can be yours, bragging rights included.
Related Stories:
· Hotel Hackspett [Konst.Org]
· Woodpecker Hotel [Unusual Hotels of the World]
· Hotel Woodpecker reviews [TripAdvisor]
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Tree House Hotel in Hana
[Ed. Note: hmlauer also wants us to know that mixing booze and tree house hotels can not only be done safely, but it can also greatly enhance your experience. Enjoy]
It is being generous to describe "Tree Houses of Hana" as rustic, but nonetheless we had a really fun experience (probably helped by the amount of alcohol we had with us).
The particular tree house that we stayed in required a 1/8 mile hike up a hill into the forest. The tree house itself had three levels - one on the ground, which is where the firepit, grill and "kitchen" were located, a second floor with two bedrooms, and a "penthouse suite" with a fantastic view of the ocean. There are walls and you can close yourself in with mosquito netting at night (which is essential), but everything is open air - no glass windows. There is no electricity, so you have to get by with the campfire and candles at night. The bathroom is totally outhouse style, with a shower that gives you a lovely al fresco view of the surrounding forest.
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Tree House Hotel Trends
This summer we uncovered an unusal new "hotel" in the wilds of Germany, called the Zentendorf Tree House.
We just chalked it up to a wacky German thing.
But oh no, Turkey is now taking over the Tree House Domain. Wait, is this like in '45 when Turkey declared war on Germany? Doubt it.
Budget Travel reports that along the southern coast of Turkey, a backpacking haven near the port town of Olympos, tree house hostels are going up.
Here's the skinny:
There is Kadir's Tree Houses which go for $11 a night, Turkmen Tree Houses , Saban Pansion and Bayram's .
Kadir's is apparently the most "social" because of a nightly bonfire but also because you don't have to stay in a tree house--they offer on-ground cabins and bungalows with bathrooms too.
Turkmen is where you go when you can't get into Kadir's but this might be a good thing because you can sleep in an actual bed.
Saban Pension is the more mellow place with room for only 100 guests (versus 450 at Turkmen's) and Bayram's is where you go to get hammered at the Blotto Bar and listen to the Turkish DJ spin his jams.
The only problem with tree houses? They're kind of hard to climb up into when you're drunk. But for under $20 a night, it's a chance most backpackers are willing to take.
Related Stories:
· Tree Houses for Adults [HotelChatter]
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Tree Houses For Adults
Those wacky Germans!
Sick of staying at trite old key card hotels, or in boring-looking hotel suites? Well a new intriguing tree house hotel has popped up on the Polish frontier hoping to change that.
What?
Yes, five cabins are perched on tree branches and reinforced (we hope!) with giant stilts.
The cabins can accommodate up to four people and has two or three floors connected by ladders.
The cost? 160 euros, or $191 a night and that includes breakfast.
We know the hotel is named the The Zentendorf Tree House, and that it is in Saxony, however, we have not been able to track down the hotel's website. Instead, we offer up this German site, which we are fairly sure says "we like to build rickety looking Lemony Snicket type tree houses." Let us know if you track down the hotels web site.
Related Stories:
· German Tourists Flock to Tree House Hotel [Yahoo! News]
· Tree House Construction [treehouse.com]
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