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\"Treehotel
Treehotel \u2014 Harads, Sweden<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you had a treehouse as a kid, you know how special it was, this place of your own, away from the colorless concerns of real life. It was your little world to customize and manipulate and modify. It’s a wonder you survived.<\/em><\/h4>\n

Listen, we\u2019ll be honest with you. Most of these hotels aren\u2019t treehouses in the traditional sense. They weren\u2019t designed by a nine-year-old, and all their support doesn\u2019t come from tree branches and two-by-fours. They also don\u2019t have a janky trapdoor. No, at these treehouses you can pretty much stand wherever you want without fear of falling through. The balconies were built by contractors, not the neighbor boy. At night, when the wind blows the treetops, you can sleep like a baby with nary a bough break or cradle drop to awaken you.<\/p>\n

These treehouse accommodations combine the adventurousness of your childhood with all the detail and professionalism you expect from a luxury boutique hotel. They get you up amongst the leaves and into the gentle embrace of nature \u2014 a pleasure greater than knowing the secret knock. They\u2019re romantic, whimsical, wonderful, improbable, and best of all: unlikely to lead to serious injury.<\/p>\n

 
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Conversas de Alpendre<\/a><\/h2>\n
Vila Nova de Cacela, Portugal<\/h5>\n

\"Conversas<\/a><\/p>\n

The combination of design-hotel good looks and family-inn friendliness is a tough pairing to deliver, but that\u2019s a nutshell description of Conversas de Alpendre. Set in the countryside of the Eastern Algarve, it\u2019s not just family-owned but family-run and family-made \u2014 with locally crafted artisanal elements that include the unique Tree House suite, standing 20 feet above the ground, resulting in a panoramic view.<\/p>\n

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Origins Luxury Lodge<\/a><\/h2>\n
Bijagua, Costa Rica<\/h5>\n

\"Origins<\/a><\/p>\n

Fantastically secluded in the mountainous interior of northern Costa Rica, Origins Luxury Lodge isn\u2019t one for subtlety. Its elevated perspective gives it a panoramic view that takes in the rainforest\u2019s treetops, the vast Lake Nicaragua, and the distant volcanoes. Its unique construction is eye-catching even as its natural materials blend harmoniously with its surroundings. And the experience aims to create big, bold memories, from horseback jungle tours to a nighttime wildlife tour.<\/p>\n

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Treehotel<\/a><\/h2>\n
Harads, Sweden<\/h5>\n

\"Treehotel<\/a><\/p>\n

We\u2019re happy to report that this is exactly what you would hope a hotel called Treehotel would be. Just south of the Arctic Circle, in Swedish Lapland, a young couple took over a Thirties guest house, which travelers more or less ignored in favor of the single treehouse suite. So with the help of seven different Swedish architecture firms, they built seven more, from the vertiginous Cabin to the dizzying Mirrorcube and the whimsical UFO.<\/p>\n

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Rancho Pacifico<\/a><\/h2>\n
Uvita de Osa, Costa Rica<\/h5>\n

\"Rancho<\/a><\/p>\n

There\u2019s precisely one stressful thing about Rancho Pacifico, and that\u2019s the two-mile drive, 2,000 vertical feet up a mountainside, from the little town of Uvita on Costa Rica\u2019s southern coast. The payoff? 250 private mountainside acres of virgin rainforest with an embarrassment of ocean views, flora, fauna and pristine waterfalls. The Treehaus villas, complete with outdoor Jacuzzis and hammocks on their private decks, are built into the jungle canopy, twenty feet above their own three-acre gardens.<\/p>\n

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Huilo Huilo Monta\u00f1a M\u00e1gica<\/a><\/h2>\n
Neltume, Chile<\/h5>\n

\"Huilo<\/a><\/p>\n

If Monta\u00f1a M\u00e1gica, or \u201cMagic Mountain,\u201d conjures up childhood vacations and the artificial wonders of theme parks, you\u2019re in the right frame of mind: this is a luxury hotel shaped like a small mountain, covered in jungle foliage, with hobbit-hole windows peeking through and a manmade waterfall cascading down the side. Guest rooms are treehouse-like, with native wood paneling and warm light, and answer the question: what’s it like to actually live inside<\/em> of a tree?<\/p>\n

Hiilo Huilo is actually a collection of hotels, each with it’s own spin on the treehouse vibe, including Huilo Huilo Nawelpi Lodge<\/a> and Hulio Huilo Reino Fungi Lodge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Xinalani<\/a><\/h2>\n
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico<\/h5>\n

\"Xinalani\"<\/a><\/p>\n

You\u2019ll be in heaven at Xinalani, so long as you\u2019re into the great outdoors and the resort\u2019s low-impact approach to the environment. The natural landscape surrounding the place is Xinalani\u2019s main attraction: even the 23 guest rooms, situated within a series of palm-thatched cabins, are open-air. Each has just three walls and a curtain that you\u2019ll probably leave open most of the time, the better to catch a sea breeze or gaze at the thousands of stars twinkling in the night sky.<\/p>\n

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Loire Valley Lodges<\/a><\/h2>\n
Esvres-sur-Indre, France<\/h5>\n

\"Loire<\/a><\/p>\n

Not every Loire Valley hotel has to follow the wine-ch\u00e2teau model. Loire Valley Lodges turns to nature for inspiration, its 18 treehouse-like lodges standing on stilts among the oaks, chestnuts, and Douglas firs of this 750-acre forest. There\u2019s no wi-fi and no TV, just a Nordic modernist vibe, a front-row view of the woods, and a full complement of rather high-end comforts, including a jacuzzi on each one\u2019s terrace.<\/p>\n

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Bio Habitat Hotel<\/a><\/h2>\n
Armenia, Colombia<\/h5>\n

\"Bio<\/a><\/p>\n

Bio Habitat sits on a mountaintop just outside the coffee-producing city of Armenia, surrounded by unspoiled native forest, affording an immersion in nature that\u2019s entirely appropriate for an eco-hotel like Bio Habitat. Here there are no mere accommodations, but Habitats \u2014 most of them suites, designed in an unapologetically modernist style, with vast picture windows that provide expansive views. For total immersion there are the Aviaries, elevated structures tucked into the forest, with glass on all four sides.<\/p>\n

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Secret Bay<\/a><\/h2>\n
Portsmouth, Dominica<\/h5>\n

\"Secret<\/a><\/p>\n

If you want to hike through the rainforest and meditate at dawn on a treetop platform and sleep in a clifftop villa sustainably built with native tropical wood, you go to Dominica, nicknamed \u201cNature Island,\u201d and check into Secret Bay. The hotel has just six villas, one more lavish than the next. The original Zabuco Honeymoon villa is situated on a rocky outcrop over the sea, while the Ti-F\u00e8y villas and the Ylang Ylang villas feel like luxury treehouses.<\/p>\n

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Cypr\u00e8s Si Haut<\/a><\/h2>\n
Saint Mexant, France<\/h5>\n

\"Cypr\u00e8s<\/a><\/p>\n

Safe to say we\u2019ll never feature a hotel smaller than Cypr\u00e8s Si Haut. Whether it\u2019s a one-room hotel or a one-bedroom guest house is purely academic \u2014 what matters is the privacy afforded by this treehouse, perched four meters high in a stand of pines and larches in Corr\u00e8ze. There\u2019s a Jacuzzi on the balcony, as well as a sauna with a picture window indoors, and room service arrives via a pulley contraption, so you never have to touch the forest floor.<\/p>\n

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JapaMala Resort<\/a><\/h2>\n
Tioman Island, Malaysia<\/h5>\n

\"JapaMala<\/a><\/p>\n

With its open-plan chalets designed for equal levels of privacy and exposure to the unspoiled surroundings, JapaMala Resort makes an art form out of leaving the busy world behind. Built to coexist with the landscape rather than subjugate it, the accommodations vary based on their location within the resort\u2019s eleven-acre slice of the island. Treetop chalets are very much of the jungle, skimming the top of the canopy, while Seacliff rooms provide unobstructed views of the South China Sea.<\/p>\n

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Hotel Las Islas<\/a><\/h2>\n
Bar\u00fa, Colombia<\/h5>\n

\"Hotel<\/a><\/p>\n

Off the Colombian coast is the island of Bar\u00fa, a lush, unspoiled idyll that’s home to the Corales de Rosario y de San Bernardo National Park \u2014 and to the Hotel Las Islas, whose bungalows spread from the private beach up into the dense tropical forest. Here you\u2019ll sleep under a distinctive conical thatched roof, in a bungalow that spans at least 70 square meters, some with decks that open directly onto the sea, others built in trees with vertiginous views of the canopy.<\/p>\n

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Orion Treehouses<\/a><\/h2>\n
Saint Paul de Vence, France<\/h5>\n

\"Orion<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s not easy to choose between the ethereal cabins at Orion Treehouses. The boutique hotel, located in a peaceful wooded setting just outside the medieval village of Saint-Paul de Vence, consists of four treehouses suspended high over a lush garden with flowering rose bushes and an ecological swimming pool. All are light-filled and lined with natural wood, featuring private baths and large terraces framed by oak branches.<\/p>\n

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Nihi Sumba<\/a><\/h2>\n
Sumba, Indonesia<\/h5>\n

\"Nihi<\/a><\/p>\n

Nihi Sumba has been called the best hotel in the world \u2014 and while we would hesitate to go quite that far, it\u2019s fair to say there\u2019s a strong case to be made. It’s set on hundreds of acres of waterfront land, between a glorious private beach and the edge of a truly untamed jungle. The accommodations are fantastically luxurious \u2014 its villas are the very picture of contemporary luxury elegance, including the two-floor treehouse villas, each built around the trunk of a tree, with views overlooking the ocean.<\/p>\n

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Keemala<\/a><\/h2>\n
Kamala, Thailand<\/h5>\n

\"Keemala\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Keemala’s villas are loosely modeled after the design of tribal dwellings. Tent Pool Villas, for example, take inspiration from the rainforest\u2019s nomadic tribes, featuring tent-like domed roofs and striking oval soaking tubs perched high over the greenery below. Cocoon-like Tree Pool Houses, in contrast, channel the aesthetic of the We-ha (Sky) clan, with two levels and suspended furniture. The fantastical Bird\u2019s Nest Villas are like elegant, futuristic birdcages built of woven wood and glass, looking out over the sea and the forest.<\/p>\n

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