Ghana

Anyone have any ideas for somewhere to go for christmas dinner/lunch in Accra on 25th? Will anything be open???

THANKS

M

Hi!

We are arriving in Accra tomorrow and will be staying for around a week. We have friends staying somewhere in East Legon and want to stay near to them as I hear getting around Accra can take a while. Any suggestions for somewhere cheap? Alternatively, any suggestiions for somewhere fancy for a Christmas treat?

THANKS!

M

Hello everyone,

I have to spend a week working in Accra (Legon) and then have the weekend free before my lift back to Benin. Any suggestions? I liked the recent comments about Busua and the Hideout Lodge, but would that involve wasting serious amounts of time getting there and back?

(Oh: the colleague giving me a lift will be driving back from Abidjan. It would be great if I could find somewhere on his route, so that he could pick me up rather than me having to travel back to Accra to meet…

we are going to ghana any day now. i wanted to know at the airport can we:

-exchange rate to ghanaian currency, is it better rate there?
-can i find airport taxi van to pick us to our location? if so, can you recommend one.

many thanks!

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