Well, I ended up manning up and going out on my own on Saturday night anyway.
You veterans are going to laugh at this report but I'm submitting it for your amusement.
I took a cab for 30 cedis to Kwame Nkrumah circle. The cab should have cost between 10-15, I paid the white tax.
First lesson. I don't know why it hadn't occurred to me that Uber would be in Accra, but they are. So use Uber and don't get ripped off by the super-annoying hustler cab drivers, with whom every ride starts with a shitty 3 min argument.
Since I had no idea where the red light district is, only that it's close to the circle, I went to the Vienna City bar.
Within 2 minutes of arrival I started talking to two local guys at the outside bar, and in the end they decided to show me around Accra. They didn't rip me off, negotiated all the cabs for local pricing, showed me some local drinks, etc.
I still have no idea where the red light district is from the circle. What I'm after is ST, I don't want girls in my hotel room.
Ended up shooting pool at Hot Gossip and had a fun night. Total failure on the mongering front, but at least I didn't waste another evening at a corporate hotel.
Amusing side note. Nigerian girl who was hanging out shooting pool with us offered to come back to the hotel. For 500 cedis, LOL. That's Hot Gossip for you. Obviously I declined.
I would be really keen if someone could PM me with some more specific (and I do mean "specific", please - "close to x or close to why" doesn't seem to be working for me, and as a white guy I don't want to be investigating African back alleys in the rough part of town after dark) directions to the red light district or other good ST option. Also keen on the massage parlors. I've searched the internet and have no idea where they are or what they're called.
So close, and yet so far. I have a lot to learn, I know.