Mallinson's Woodland Retreat
Thorncombe, Dorset
The only place in Britain to sleep in a RIBA award-winning treehouse.
From £300 / night
- Hot tub
- Sauna
- Pizza oven
The ten best cabins in Britain
Treehouses, bothies, smart-glass boxes and hand-carved cedar — and campsites from a car-free island in the Atlantic to a pitch directly beneath Ben Nevis.
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Chewton Glen Treehouses
New Forest, Hampshire
Britain's most famous luxury treehouses, suspended in the canopy of a five-star country house hotel's New Forest estate.
From £900 / night
- Hot tub
- Five-star spa access
- Breakfast hatch
- Cabin3
Looking Glass Lodge
Fairlight, East Sussex
An architect-designed lodge with full-height smart-glass walls that turn opaque at the flick of a switch, hidden in private ancient woodland in the High Weald.
From £295 / night
- Panoramic smart-glass walls
- Wood burner
- Private woodland
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Kudhva
Trebarwith Strand, Cornwall
Radical architect-designed hideouts on stilts in a disused slate quarry above the Atlantic.
From £100 / night
- Sea views
- Wild swimming
- Sauna
- Cabin5
Log House Holidays
Cotswold Water Park, Gloucestershire
Family-run for over 40 years: eight Finnish log cabins around a private 130-acre lake on a personal nature reserve.
From £200 / night
- Private lake
- Hot tub
- Sauna
- Cabin6
Hinterlandes
Lorton Valley, Cumbria
A fully off-grid hidden cabin (and a converted double-decker bus) that periodically moves location in the quiet north-western fells.
From £110 / night
- Off-grid
- Stargazing skylight
- Wood-fired heating
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The Living Room Treehouses
near Machynlleth, Powys
The original Welsh eco treehouses: six wooden hideaways in a hidden valley on the edge of Eryri (Snowdonia).
From £140 / night
- Off-grid
- Dark skies
- Dog-friendly
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Eagle Brae
Struy, Scottish Highlands
A hand-carved cedar log cabin village on a Highland hillside where red deer and eagles are the neighbours.
From £140 / night
- Hand-carved cedar cabins
- Turf roofs
- Wildlife
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57 Nord
Wester Ross, Scottish Highlands
Scandinavian-Highland design hideaways with floor-to-ceiling loch and mountain views near Eilean Donan and Skye.
From £250 / night
- Loch views
- Stone bathtubs
- Food hampers
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Finn Lough
Lough Erne, County Fermanagh
Northern Ireland's most famous stay: transparent bubble domes where you stargaze from a four-poster bed on a private Lough Erne shoreline.
From £250 / night
- Transparent domes
- Forest spa trail
- Private shoreline