Designed by kids - 10 unusual glamping spaces

Any child that grew up bashing cars together might well have been designing this in their minds. It's a camper van stuck to a school bus and placed in stunning countryside in a remote part of the Lake District. There's a hot tub right next to it and nobody else around for miles.

Bet you never thought that one place could combine all those castle-based fairy stories you used to love AND Swallows & Amazons. Welcome to a floating palace in the Dordogne, with a hot tub and hanging basket chairs on the deck so you can sit back and dream of... exactly where you are.

One from a child of the woods here, at a cabin clad in branches with a retractable ladder that means it almost disappears into its surroundings. Inside there's a cosy curved bedroom and outside, the wilderness of rural Sweden to be explored.

A proper Peter Pan hideaway - alone on an island with a boardwalk over the water as the only access unless you fancy taking the canoe. During the day you can take nature walks and go looking for elk, at night the stars are incredible and give the whole place an even more magical remoteness.

Who knows where this idea came from? It's part caravan, part penthouse flat, part cabin in the woods and you can go on horse-drawn carriage rides after you've chatted to the resident pony. It's a bizarre and brilliant spot in a quiet country orchard.

You can imagine a parent patiently nodding as their child says, "and 30 of my friends can come, and there's loads of different things in the woods and some of them are triangles and two of them are boats, but one of the boats is a roof." That's Bradmoor Woods in a nutshell - the weirdest place ever to throw a party.

Another one from the "secret den" school of thought, with a cabin you can reach only by chain bridge or rowing boat. Once you've hauled yourself aboard, there's everything you need for a weekend of comfort and calm on the shores of a lake.

If you ever looked at a beehive when you were little and wondered why you couldn't live in one yourself, then a) you should probably talk to someone about that and b) here's your chance at last. There's a bedroom on the top floor, a hot tub sunk into the deck and a stone bath outside too, for a magical few days indulging all those apiary fantasies.

A massive nostalgia trip for anyone of the Emu/Grotbags generation (if you're not, don't look it up) this old, non-pink, stone windmill is in a stunning, remote part of Portugal where you can swim wild, live slow and explore the surrounding mountain villages.

There aren’t many spherical places to stay, that’s for sure – and The Lost Meadow Treepod isn’t just unusual in shape, it’s also unusual in location, suspended in the air with the breeze. Curl up cozy at night, and you can emerge in the morning to an off-grid shower.