Where to stay in Greater Accra

Accra has many cool and interesting places to stay, if you are looking for an expensive upmarket hotel or even an AirBNB you will be spoilt for choice. Over the years Accra is becoming more and more expensive as more external tourist flock into the captial. Additionaly with better transport links you do not have to stay right in to the capital if not required. The upsides of staying in Accra Central is if you have events or things you need to attend or if you are on business. But if not then sometime venturing a little further a field can make a difference to your budget and experience.

So if you did not know Accra is divided into 5 regions which in total have 50 neighbourhoods we are not going to go into each one just the top level regions

Accra North
This is the area which includes the Kotoka airport and the famous Airport resdential area which is considered one ot he wealthest neighbourhoods in Accra. Here you will find ministors and celebrities rubbing shoulders with other wealthy people who have decided to make their homes in Ghana

Acccra East
This area is an older more established and wealthy neighbourhood which included the Cantonments and many international embassies. This area is great for finding those exclusive Air BnBs as the houses are a really nice around here.The popular neighorbourhoods here are La and Labadi and Airport Hills. Imagine MTV cribs if you want to have a weekend stay with some friends then this is the place to rent a home so that you can be near all the action in central Accra. Burma Camp in also located in this area which is is the headquarters of the Ghana Armed Forces so expect lots of military personal and their families to live in this area.

Accra South
This area is knowns for having Kokrobite beach its another diverse areas of Accra but not as well known as the rest so assured you will find some decent places to stay..

Accra West
This area of Accra is more downtown and probably a fairer relefection of life in Accra, here you can still find the hustle and bustle and buzz of living in Accra and is not as sometime sterile as central Accra. This areas famous neighbourhoods are Dansoman, Lartebiokorshie, Odorkor and Abossey.

1. Agbogbloshie (famous around the world as the place where old electrical equipment is dumped – many documentraries have been made about this area and the government are working hard to clean up the area and its reputation)
2. Sabon Zongo
3. Old Fadama (Sodom and Gomorrah)
4. Lavender Hill (Accra)
5. Abuja
6. Chemuna
7. Gbegbeyise
8. Chorkor

Well Accra is a big city, split into different quadrants like mentioned above. Like many major cities the more central you are the more busy and congested it can be. The most central location and ares is the Cantonments.

The Cantonments is a affluent suburb of Accra a mixture of Beverly Hills, Holland Park, Mayfair and Greenwich village USA. But under the Accra sun with the Ghana style architecture. Here you will find in the area many of the foreign embassies government ministries and their offices plus official residence of some big important and some famous people. So you are sure to find much of the same necessarties as many highbrow areas. Flashy cars, well heeled ladies and gents still trying to look cool in the 35 degree heat. (Well they spend much of the time in the shade and in the air conditioned cars and houses)

You can be sure to find some decent places to eat and even the odd coffee shop. Labone is an area and one of its famous landmarks is the Labone Coffee Shop. This is a mini style drive in precinct which offers a range of shops and a mini kids play area. To add to this there are a few airbnb’s located in the Labone Coffee shop area. When staying in the Cantonments you are guaranteed not to get lost as the area is central and well served by taxis. Please note that there are very limited or actually no hawkers or street stalls located in these areas. So at times it can feel that something is missing. That this is not Ghana unless you decide to walk.