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Located in the small town of Harads in northern Sweden, with a population of only about 600 people, Treehotel offers guests a unique experience in the northern sunshine of winter and watching the midnight sun in summer.
Launched in 2010, this treehouse hotel attracts over 20,000 visitors from around the world annually. The Treehotel comprises six separate rooms with different designs, situated at heights ranging from 2 to 12 meters atop towering pine trees. Designed by a leading Scandinavian architect, each treehouse room tells its own story and boasts unique features, from its shape and furnishings to its lighting and interior design.
The first room worth mentioning is the Mirrorcube, a 16m2 room painted with a reflective material to completely reflect its surroundings. The Mirrorcube is covered in mirrors on all four sides, and without the bridge leading into the room, visitors would hardly notice it amidst a vast pine forest.
The room boasts spectacular views from its floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the picturesque Lule River. This unique design makes the room a dream for many visitors to the Treehotel. The house is built on tree trunks and features a large, open-air terrace made of a giant fiberglass net. Guests can lie on this "giant hammock" and gaze at the Northern Lights amidst the Nordic forest.
Additionally, rooms shaped like bird nests and completely "camouflaged" by tree branches, or rooms resembling flying saucers suspended in mid-air like UFO spacecraft, are also attractive options here.
The owners of this hotel are the married couple Kent Lindwall and Britta Jonsson Lindvall. Kent said: "We came up with this idea because we wanted to build environmentally friendly hotels. People can stay in the trees and still be safe. We wanted to connect the hotel with nature by integrating it into the surrounding environment without harming it. It's important that people can come and relax in the forest."
During a trip to Russia, Kent shared his idea for building a hotel with three renowned Swedish architects: Beces Harstrom, Thomas Sandell, and Marten Cyren. Intrigued by the sustainable and environmentally conscious concept, the architects agreed to collaborate with him to design the Treehotel. Subsequently, the hotel rooms were scattered throughout the pine forest, bearing unusual names that reflected the initial inspiration: the Bird's Nest Room, the Blue Bird Room, the Dragonfly Room, the UFO Room, the Cabin Room, and the Mirrorcube Room.
These houses are suspended by secure connections to tree trunks, ensuring the trees remain alive and thrive. The hotel rooms feature double beds, seating, ladders or ropes for access, and solar-powered underfloor heating. Guests at the Treehotel share a luxurious bathroom and sauna on the ground in a separate area, as installing individual water systems for each treehouse would damage the forest. The daily rate at this tree hotel is approximately £390, equivalent to around 12 million Vietnamese dong.
