I leveraged my position as Coco Travel editor to satisfy my childhood dreams of sleeping in a treehouse. I stayed on the company dime so I could write a full-length critical review of the experience and find out whether the experience lived up to the fantasy. Original photos by me.
With literally thousands of hotels to choose from in Bali, it really takes something special for a place to stand out from the pack.
We’re starting to see more and more “out there,” unique accommodations trending, one always swooping in to outdo the next with some truly photogenic backdrops optimized for the ’gram.
Wall-less bamboo bungalows, antique wooden houses, and yes, bubble hotels. You name it, Bali’s probably got some iteration of it.
One sort of alternative accommodation that we’ve been dying to try out ourselves but hadn’t gotten around to, until a trip a few months back brought us to Ubud, was the pinnacle of our outdoorsy, adventure-loving childhood fantasies: the treehouse.
How cool would it be to be lofted high up in the jungle, totally surrounded by nature, in a house attached to a tree? Sounds like the stuff of dreams to us!
But as with anything on the ‘gram, we’re always left wondering when we see photos of such cool digs: is it as epic as it looks on our feed?
The only way to find out (as we did with the Bali Bubble Hotel) was to book a room on Airbnb and test it out for ourselves. Here are our findings.
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