Great idea, but. . .

This is tree house No. 3, which has an actual live tree growing through it. It's a great concept, in theory, but practically it can be a pain in the tuckus. When the wind blows, the tree moves and it shifts the flooring around in the tree house, and the fact that the tree is constantly growing and moving, makes it more susceptible to leaks, when it rains. The water does not pour into the tree house, but runs down the sides. It was time for a repair/patch job the other day, so Miguel and Kenneth hopped up there.
The tree house itself is probably 20 to 25 feet off the ground, and the roof is another 10 feet or so. No ladder here will reach that high. No problems, as Miguel lashed a small, wooden, home-made ladder, between two branches halfway up a tree. From there, he took a metal ladder here at the hotel, and put that up one side of the roof, where he had tied another rope. From there, he lashed the rope tied to the metal ladder to the railings on the tree house and tied it off tight. He hopped into the tree -- still about 20 feet off the ground -- onto the wooden ladder, where he climbed to the very top rung, and then onto the metal ladder where he shinnied on up. He tied himself to the tree coming out of the roof and did the repair and patch work in about an hour. I thought about going up there, for about 1.5 seconds, until reality settled in and I remained grounded on the deck of the tree house.