Ada - Paradise Beach
Popular resort area and a favorite base for water sports and game fishing.
Kokrobite Beach Resort
25km west of Accra, Kokrobite is also home to the Academy of African Music and Arts.
One great little hostle is called Big Milly's Backyard. A small hotel for rucksack travellers. Simple. Cosy. A garden surrounded with walls with small houses, rooms, cold beer and a snack three times a day. Wendy is Big Milly. A somewhat elder English woman who found her spot in Ghana. Very nice setting and well worth the short drive out of Accra. Definitely worth the short drive out of Accra.
La Pleasure Beach
This is most popular beach during holidays and weekends and is located behind Labadi Beach Hotel
Next Door Beach Resort
Next Door, a perfect and excellent beach resort-complex is a model of excellent of international standard worthy of mention. The peace and tranquillity reigning in the hearts of lovers and people are ever present at this resort. It is simply a pictorial story you need to know and consume as first hand information about this earthly paradise, which is on the Accra-Teshie road.
After passing by the Military Academy and its environs, driving towards the township of Teshie, Next Door can found on the right side of the road.
The impression at first sight is the exotic nature of things, which help to embellish the place bringing it into an international focus and standard.
The vivid and scenic beauty of this resort with a cluster of coconut trees for shade is the gift of nature, which has encompassed this beautiful spot.
At the lower terrace, a wing, which is of historical tourist potential and attraction, has a catchments area of cement enclosure where the sea flows directly shortly would be developed into a swimming pool.
Each side of the enclosure is bordered by a cluster of huts with thatched roofs, open and airy for relaxation after a hard day's work.
A terrace bar service caters for customers and a growing clientele of tourist of different nationalities.
The serenity and the breeze winds from the Atlantic Ocean and its morning dews act as natural health tonic for the relaxation of the mind and body.
Cocoloco Beach
Cocoloco Beach is located at Ada Foah - about an hour east from Accra where the Volta River meets the Atlantic Ocean. The area is a natural paradise and a breeding ground for a variety of sea turtles. The Volta Estuary is also a sanctuary for an enormous number of birds. Cocoloco has camping and accommodation in a number of bungalows built in a traditional thatch style. To get there, head east from Accra and branch right at the Kasseh-Ada junction. If you are coming by "tro-tro" or commercial bus, get out at the last stop and ask a taxi to take you to the Cocoloco Beach Camp Resort near the village of Totimekope.
Ningo-Prampram Beach
Further east of Accra (about 45km) on the Aflao Road exists this splendid beach. There exists several budget hotels on the beachfront and a modern Polo grounds and club (not currently in operation).
Prampram is a poor fishing village, population 6,000, on the South Atlantic Ocean, an hour east of Accra, Ghana's capital. The remains of several shipwrecks jut out from the rough seas reminding you of the fishermen?s daily dangers. Palm trees shade hand-carved canoes painted in primary colors line the shore. Several beautiful beach homes and up-and-coming beachside hotels are beginning to take hold along the coastline. |