I've stayed in some pretty fabulous Airbnbs all over the world, but the Fairytale Treehouse takes the cake. Even after seeing the photos and reading the reviews online, we still weren't fully prepared for just how amazing this place is. First, the treehouse was far bigger than we expected; even with the upstairs mezzanine and balcony closed off due to council regulations, it's a sizeable one-bedroom cottage with towering ceilings and huge banks of windows, not the tiny, dark little hut one might imagine. Second, it's amazingly comfortable and well-equipped, with a full kitchen, a heat pump, a separate bath and shower, and many other amenities. Third, Denise and Glenn had laid out all kinds of extra luxuries, from fresh-baked bread and other breakfast supplies to a high-end espresso machine. Fourth, the location is absolutely beautiful, tucked away in a grove of massive trees on a lovely horse farm just a stone's throw from Whangarei yet seemingly out of this world. And finally, the house itself is simply magical, built around a gigantic macrocarpa tree that seems to wrap the interior and its quirky decor in a massive organic embrace. On a personal note, when I walked into the bedroom and saw the poster on the wall (a photo of a lantern in front of a river and cathedral), I immediately turned to my husband and said, "That's Basel!"; somewhere in another life (30+ years ago) I owned that same poster myself, a memento of a year spent in Switzerland as a high school student. Fittingly -- given that the treehouse incorporates several items from the Chronicles of Narnia movie set -- I thought at once of a line from C.S. Lewis' The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe: "It will not go out of my mind that if we pass this post and lantern either we shall find strange adventures or else some great change in our fortunes."