Your holiday summer: a treehouse

Gone are the days when boltholes in treetops were for children only. Now tourists holidaying in forests will find tailor-timbered restaurants and designer hotels in the branches of huge trees. It makes for a very special vacation experience, but as with most other types of holiday, treehousing can also be enjoyed at a budget level where you carry the accommodation on your back.

NEW ZEALAND: The Redwoods Treehouse in Warkworth has space, and cocktail-hour facilities, for up to 50 guests.

CALIFORNIA: This treehouse in Venice Beach is very open to the open air and the creatures who dwell therein.

ANYWHERE: The Tentsile Tree Tent hovers between trees and makes you feel like you’re sleeping in a UFO.