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Out on a limb


New Zealand does luxury lodges better than anywhere else. Winsor Dobbin gets a bird's-eye view from a very different style of accommodation.

I love tree houses. I loved them when I was a kid and nothing has changed now I'm an older, fatter kid. Hapuku Lodge, outside Kaikoura on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island, has taken the tree house concept to new heights.