Accommodation Adventures - Cape Coast

We have been staying at the international students hostel on campus which is very beautiful and well kept.  Our weekend trips  involve us leaving the hostel and staying at guesthouses and hotels.  This is the outside view of our guest house in Cape Coast. Our room was very nice. Courtney and I had a double bed, a bathroom with a toilet that flushed, and our room was a bit larger than many of the others that were staying with us.  We also had the luxury of our balcony not facing a garbage pile so we did not have any weird scents coming into our room at night.  We did however have a bathroom without a light.  But don't worry, our bathroom had a window located right above the toilet that faced out to the hallway located behind us.  Luckily the glass was sort of frosted, but it was difficult not to get stage fright when people were socializing in the hallway so sometimes we would wait until later in the night to use our bathroom, although then we did so in the dark because the light was burned out.  Other than that our room was wonderful, and we believe others may have thought so as well because on our first night there we had a knock at our door followed by what sounded like someone trying to open our door with a key.  We decided not to answer it because it was late at night (only 10 pm- but it seemed later because it gets dark around 6pm) and our group usually announces who it is, but the knockers did not announce who they were.  There was then another knock followed by more fidgeting with our lock and we said “Just a minute”, to which the person on the other side responded "No,no,no, bye". We initially thought it was someone trying to break into our room, but one of our friends had saw people with what looked like a key trying to get into our room at that time and asked what they were doing, to which they replied "just fixing the lock".  Now this is strange because our lock was not broken nor did we ask anyone to fix it.  Plus we thought if they were going to fix it they would have told us when we arrived that it was going to be fixed, but at 10 pm on a Friday night, who would fix a lock that wasn't broken?  Make of it what you will.

Sammo Guest House in Cape Coast

For the most part our accommodations were reasonable and very well priced.  A majority of them involved toilets that flushed, fans, and beds, so we could not complain about the price.  As long as we had a bed to sleep on and a roof over our heads we were pretty happy.