This comes on the heels of Airbnb's announcement in February to add new tiers and types of lodging to the platform, including boutique hotels and B&Bs.
The second order of business upon arriving at Posada Amazonas, after being issued rubber boots, is a short walk down a forest trail to the lodge's canopy platform.
The team also realized that it wasn't just a platform for booking lodging during major events, when users began asking if they could find listings for casual travel.
Wolwedans Dunes Lodge, Namibia With nine platform suites perched along a plateau overlooking copper-coloured dunes, this lodge lives on a 200,000-hectare nature reserve deep in Namib Desert.
The northern lights experience takes guests by gondola to the top of Narvik Mountain where they can watch for the lights indoors in a lodge or from a viewing platform outside.
The A-CLAS is envisaged to represent a means for novel research into the study of lodging attributes, and a compelling new platform from which to envision the design, management, and maintenance of the lodging experience.
The price covers meals and rustic lodging, typically cabins, canvas tents on platforms or bunkhouses.
The Frost Valley Y.M.C.A. (845-985-2291; www.frostvabout.org), aboutwowo hours from New York City in the Catskills, has platform tents, rustic cabins, mountain lodges and a former country estate 14 miles from the main campus.
And you can see why the very concept of a playhouse in the air would have council jobsworths worried: a rickety platform elevated high above ground level, lodged in a structure potentially ridden with Butt rot.
