HOTEL ACCOMMODATION
The hotels and guest houses listed on this page are recommended to conference participants.
- All are located within a radius of less than 4 miles from the University of Ghana (the district in which the university is located is called LEGON).
- All provide good services in a safe, appealing environment.
- Most are air-conditioned.
- Most provide free transportation to and from the Kotoka International Airport.
- Most have internet café, TV, and direct dial phone system.
Make your reservations early, by April, and remember to confirm a few weeks before departure. Country code: 233; Accra city code: 21 (all other numbers within parenthesis are cellular/mobile phone codes). When making reservations, please make sure it is clear whether or not breakfast and the required 15% VAT tax are included in the charges.
Precaution: Because of hectic traffic problems in Accra, take care in selecting hotels that may be far from the university.
Rebate scheme for students and teachers:
Go to:
http://www.hotelscombined.com/Education_Support
The Accra page: http://www.hotelscombined.com/City/Accra.htm
GIMPA Executive Hostel
(Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration)
Location: Achimota Road, Legon
Telephone: 401 681, 401 682, 401 683
Gen Manager: mensansah@yahoo.co.uk
Email: info@gimpa.edu.gh,
GIMPA Website: www.gimpa.edu.gh
Newly-built hostel (completed 2006), 100 rooms on an attractive campus
1.5 miles from University of Ghana
Downside: a bit isolated from main road (need for taxi connections)
Kwame Nkrumah Institute of African Studies (IAS) Chalets
Location: University of Ghana (off-campus; within walking distance)
Telephone: Office: 233 21 513-386; Cell: 233 244 710-437
Fax: 500 512
Email: iasgen@ug.edu.gh, godwinadjei@yahoo.com
Website: www.ug.edu.gh/ias
16 rooms
University Guest Centre
Location: University of Ghana (on-campus)
Telephone: 500 184, 512 513, 512 514
Email: unavailable
Website: unavailable
24 bed-sitters (two twin-beds in each room): $55
12 flats – (two twin-beds in these suites): $70
2 bungalows (4 rooms, with 2 beds in each room; 2 bathrooms outside of rooms)
Ange Hill Hotel
Location: Shiashi, East Legon
Telephone: 517 514, 517 515, 517 270, 286 027, (24) 340-5125
Fax: 517 514
Email: angehillhotel@yahoo.com
Website: www.angehillhotel.com
31 rooms: 7 executive, with 2 separate twin-beds; 15 deluxe, with 1 double-bed; 5 single rooms; 4 mini-executive, with a king-size bed
Free shuttle service available
Hotel TREVI
Location: Shiashi, East Legon
Telephone: 501 965, 501 457, 515 187
Fax: 501 965
Email: info@hoteltrevi-gh.com, reservations@hoteltrevi-gh.com
Website: www.hoteltrevi-gh.com
16 rooms
Shuttle service available
Miklin Hotel
Location: Shiashi, East Legon
Telephone: 500 708, 502 386, 502 387, 502 974
Gen. Manager: (20) 811 6216
Fax: 500 558, 502 975
Email: miklin@africaonline.com.gh
Website: www.miklin-gh.com
46 rooms (26 singles, 16 rooms with 2 beds, 5 suites)
Free shuttle service available
Aristocrat Hotel
Location: Shiashi, East Legon
Telephone: 518 734, (244) 476 680
Fax: 518 735, 911 955
Email: aristocrathotel@yahoo.com
Website: Not available
12 rooms (luxurious)
Wireless rooms for laptop computers
Shuttle service available
Erata Hotel
Location: East Legon
Telephone: 506 343, 515 192, 515 193
Manager: (24) 435 7147
Fax: 505 119
Email: stepkoat@yahoo.co.uk
Website: www.eratahotel.com
50 rooms
Free shuttle service available
Mensvic Palace Hotel
Location: Shiashi, East Legon
Telephone: 507 406, 507 407, 511 407, 508 694
Fax: 507 619
Email: mensvic@yahoo.com
Website: www.mensvichotel.com
50 rooms
Free shuttle service available
Distance between Hotels
The following hotels are on the same street, almost next to each other: Aristocrat, Hotel Trevi, and Mensvic Palace. Very close by are Erata, Miklin and Ange Hill.
The University Guest Centre and the IAS chalets are fairly close to each other, since they are both located on the University of Ghana grounds.
GIMPA Hostel is about 1.5 miles from University Guest Centre.
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