The Ghana police have now started a PIPS (Police Intelligence and Professional Standards Bureau) hotline where you can call in or file your complaints about how the police has been behaving. Note down your location, the day, name of the police and in which way you felt you were not treated well. I have not [...]
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We are volunteers in Ghana and have been using your guide book. We thought that you might like to know that we were mugged (beaten up and a bag ripped from our hands) on the rocks behind the Cape Coast Castle, around 10am on a Saturday. The guy was in his mid 20s and had [...]
I would like to warn my fellow readers of Bradt about Haizel’s Guesthouse in Cape Coast. My mobile phone was stolen there from a locked room, most likely by a staff member because the room was locked and the room key was with me and there were no signs of a forced entry. The staff [...]
We had a really bad experience at Bonwire. Perhaps there is something interesting to see there, but we didn’t get to it. We were brought to a facility where we immediately mobbed by vendors. They rushed us through a very cursory explanation of kente and then harangued us to buy something. It was pretty terrible. [...]
To all Cape Coast visitors: be careful around the outside of the castle. Robbery and theft are common, even during the day. The rocks behind the castle are more or less a public bathroom, and are not safe for visitors, no matter how beautiful the view may be! Joeva
We were myself, female 37 years old and my mother, 62. Unfortunatly on the first day, a sunday, we were walking around in the area E2 map page 123, parallel street to the one of Coconut grove; the streets were empty but with posh houses with guards behind the doors… Two guys arrived on a [...]
