The holiday company Center Parcs is planning to branch out with a brand new style of accommodation for its Sherwood Forest guests in 2011 by offering them treehouses to sleep in.
These “treehouses” are a little bigger than the ones you might have built as a kid and look more like something you would find on the set of “I’m a celebrity, get me out of here”, but you still get to feel like you’re much more living as one with the forest…albeit with en-suite bathrooms and fully equipped kitchens.
Another major difference and one which will no doubt please those who prefer not to hang from the trees, is that the houses do sit on the ground albeit on stilts, so you are still elevated but without needing to swing from a tree branch to reach the ground (rather a pity if you ask me).
Each “treehouse” is two-storey’s high each with four en-suite bedrooms, an open-plan kitchen, dining and living area and a separate games den which features a pool table. Although you might feel like you’re in the middle of the forest, each bedroom has a flatscreen TV and there is wireless internet throughout the entire house. To prove that these are very luxurious treehouses, each even includes a private outdoor hot tub and infra-red sauna!
So perhaps this isn’t quite the kindof camping out in the homemade treehouse you might have done as a kid, but really, if you’d had the chance to install an en-suite in your treehouse, you would have done it also, wouldn’t you…?
More details and availability can be found on the Center Parks Treehouse website although at the time of writing it doesn’t seem you can book them via the online booking facility.
If treehouses aren’t your thing, there are also plenty of other self-catering properties around north Nottinghamshire.
More North Nottinghamshire Links:
Hotels around Mansfield (just south of Sherwood Park)
Tourist attractions near to Sherwood Park
