Places to stay in Accra under $30 u.s. per night and getting taxis from the airport
If you want to stay in the Osu area, I would recommend Joska Lodge at telephone 021 774808 at 40 cedis per night for an air-conditioned double. This price includes a small breakfast of coffee or tea and a fried egg with toast. It has free wireless if you have a laptop. If you call them you can make a reservation in advance. When I showed up the room was available even though reservations are always a bit tricky from my experience.
Other hotels that I have not yet been to are Hotel Zeuss in Caprice area, near Boomerang disco at 40 cedis per night for an air-conditioned double at telephone 021 220506, and in the Dansoman area teley Lodge at 42 cedis per night for an air-conditioned double telephone 021 317582.
As for taxis from the airport the best thing to do when leaving the airport is to turn right and go to the DOMESTIC ARRIVALS area where taxis are dropping people off. A taxi from the airport to the Osu is 6 CEDIS so now that you know the local price that is all you should pay. If you pick one of the taxi drivers where you arrive they will expect more since they think you don't know the local price. Regardless, I would not pay more than 10 cedis. Exchange is about 15 Cedis = 10 U.S. Dollars
The emerging middle classes
I was pleasantly surprised when a Ghanaian woman who comes from a very well off family and owns her own 4X4 offered some great sex free of charge. Her friend who joined in the 3some fun even bought me dinner the next night. Now that's a change from the past! So, ya never know. When some Ghana girl hits on you and has her own car you just might get lucky for free.
Another woman who has a good job did the same thing and I scored there also free of charge. A 3rd women hit me up outside Koala but she was not my physical type. Try out Koala supermarket in Osu where all the well off Ghanaians shop and you just might get something for free. The downside is these women will be in their 30s since they most likely took the time to get their earnings established.
The confusion continues...
Yes, you are right, it is the exception. Last night I had a Nigerian girl say she wants to come back to my hotel. When I told her to come and and asked her how much, she said she was not a prostitute and did not come to my hotel. This morning she told me she was trying to buy a hair pieice for 30 cedis. Maybe if I had paid for it she would have come to my hotel. I didn't take her bait as paying before the deed may result in getting nothing. I will try again tonight and post of what happens.
The trick is to find girls with real jobs
Students are always better than the bar girls but working girls are great also since I've scored 2 already at no charge beyond a 15 cedi meal and taxi fare. The trick is to get them on their day off of work and do some rotation among employed girls. I predict that Ghana will in the next 5 years reach middle income which means more employed girls and less desperate ones.
The desperate one backed off on the marriage and baby crap but was hot last night. Only 10 cedis but got her through my ex Ghana GF.