I have stayed at the Treehouse!! It is amazing and soooo beautiful. Seriously, just amazing. It is actually so far away from everything that they have to come pick you up from the train station and drop you back off when you want to leave. It is important you make resos though, because if they are out of beds then you are out of luck because there is NO WHERE else to stay in that town. They actually took sympathy on me and let me sleep on the floor my last night there because it turned out nmy train didn't leave until the next day. They have snowboard equitment and stuff that you can borrow for free and then rent a board and enjoy the days out there. Seriously, it is really really great.
The Treehouse has home-cooked meals also (which you have to pay for). The bar is downstairs and they will run tabs for you that you can pay for as you are checking out. They know you are not going to run out on your bill becuase there is no place to run! haha. Be careful though, the tabs can be dangerous, you have no idea how much you are spending! Also- the staff does your laundry for you. Plus you sleep with these big amazing blankets... everyone (the other people staying there) were amazing also. When you don't feel like going out to the snow or whatever they have a movie room with tons of different movies, also good if you're hung over (the town even is too far away to walk to.. so you're just sort of seculded in the woods)
That sounds amazing. Thanks so much for the review! Do you think I could spend like 3-4 days there without exhausting things to do? Also, is it hard to meet other English-speaking people?
Not at all (meeting english speaking people). Depending on what time of year you are there really depends on who you will run into. During the summer for example you will run into a lot more americans and canadians while in the winter you tend to see a lot more aussies and kiwis. I have never had any trouble meeting people AT ALL, the only place where I didn't meet ANY english/spanish speakers at ALL was in Dresden, Germany and in Krakow, Poland. But I wasn't even in those cities that long and I wasn't staying at "backpackers" hostels, so it wasn't a real social enviorment. At the treehouse EVERYONE who works tehre speaks english, although it isn't a huge staff so you'll see the same couple people everyday.
There is no way you will run out of things to do at the TreeHouse, especially if the place is full, because there will be tons of peole to meet and tons to do. Keep in mind, though, it is in the middle of nowhere, so all the activities there are to do you have to pay for. The hostel doesn't lead these extreme hikes or glacier climbing or bungee jumping, they're extra activities (so worth it) but you do have to pay out of pocket for those things. Same with the snowboarding. The hostel has snowsuits and such that you can borrow, but the actual snowboarding is a place you walk to up in the hills and is an actual facitily, so you have to pay for teh board, lift tickets, etc.
The Treehouse has home-cooked meals also (which you have to pay for). The bar is downstairs and they will run tabs for you that you can pay for as you are checking out. They know you are not going to run out on your bill becuase there is no place to run! haha. Be careful though, the tabs can be dangerous, you have no idea how much you are spending! Also- the staff does your laundry for you. Plus you sleep with these big amazing blankets... everyone (the other people staying there) were amazing also. When you don't feel like going out to the snow or whatever they have a movie room with tons of different movies, also good if you're hung over (the town even is too far away to walk to.. so you're just sort of seculded in the woods)
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Thank you!! ♥
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There is no way you will run out of things to do at the TreeHouse, especially if the place is full, because there will be tons of peole to meet and tons to do. Keep in mind, though, it is in the middle of nowhere, so all the activities there are to do you have to pay for. The hostel doesn't lead these extreme hikes or glacier climbing or bungee jumping, they're extra activities (so worth it) but you do have to pay out of pocket for those things. Same with the snowboarding. The hostel has snowsuits and such that you can borrow, but the actual snowboarding is a place you walk to up in the hills and is an actual facitily, so you have to pay for teh board, lift tickets, etc.
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