Central Ghana updates

Many thanks to Nancy Chuang - travelling through Ghana right now gathering info for the 8th edition - for these detailed updates from central Ghana: ADJIEKROM COCOA TOURS Due to slowdown in tourism, the director is not always available, there isn’t really an active visitors center. Call him to confirm your visit in advance (especially …

New trip report

Bill and Carol Bailey write We recently returned from a two week visit to Ghana, group of 4. We used the 4th edition, but will be buying the 6th as it sounds like a good update. We spent a week at Asesewa (church link) in the Eastern Region staying at the Shai Hills Resort Annex just …

Ben’s trip report

Two weeks in Ghana I only had two weeks in Ghana but I felt obliged to share my two pennies' worth on this update page given how useful the Bradt guide proved to me. In short, I split my limited time between the West Coast and the Volta region with a few of pit-stops in …

Detailed trip report from Glenn and Christine

We have just returned from a five-week tour of Ghana, where we used your guide extensively.  It was an invaluable key to points of interest and to practical necessities (e.g. It’s very late – where can we find a guest house near the bus station?).  Occasionally, though, the description in the guide seemed out-of-date, so …

Shai Hills Resort

We stayed for 2 nights at Shai Hills Resort Reserve - we had a few issues with the hotel and poor management when we stayed there last year but decided to give it another go. We wished we hadn't. The facilities are OK but the hotel is very poorly run - the lazyness and attitude …

Updates for Stone Lodge, near Shai Hills

The management of Stone Lodge has emailed to let us know that it now has air-con in all chalets and refrigerators in some. It does not have 36 chalets, as we state, but 31 rooms spread between 13 chalets and two villas. They are currently constructing a swimming pool and a multi-purpose banquet hall. Additional …

Map corrections

P240 Shai Hills – the Main Gate is shown as slightly north of the road coming from Doryumu but is actually slightly to the south. P340 Techiman – it is a bit confusing to show the hotel icon for Agyeiwaa Hotel next to the Total garage when the hotel is down a turning on the …

Updates from Thor Young

My wife and I traveled to Ghana on vacation recently and relied heavily on the 4th Edition of the Bradt guide in our travels. I have comments on some of the places we visited for your internet readers or next edition. I’ll go in order from west to east with a general comment on tipping …