We passed three nights in Agbogba: the Saturday and Sunday before our trip to Kumasi, and the Friday after our return. We spent all three nights at Life Camp Hotel, which we chose because of its proximity to the residence where The Musician lives.

Here is a sign for the hotel. Notice that the sign provides phone numbers and a web site address (now defunct), but no street address. That's because Life Camp Hotel has no street address: it's located on a street that, like many in Ghana, has no name. A countrywide effort to name the streets is underway, but that effort hasn't reached Agbogba, the suburb of Accra where The Musician lives and Life Camp Hotel is located.

The cladding on Life Camp Hotel gives it the look of a giant-size Lego castle:

Inside, there's a lobby on the ground floor, a small number of guest rooms on the second floor, and DeBull Night Club on the third floor. That's right: the nightclub is right above the rooms. And DeBull, though not terribly popular, is terribly loud. Moreover, our room was directly beneath the part of the club where the billiard tables are. So imagine that when you go to bed every night, the building sings you a lullaby of sorts: the white noise of intoxicated patrons over a persistent booming beat so loud it rattles your walls, punctuated by the occasional crash when a stray billiard ball hits and rolls across the floor above you.

The Woman and I were grateful for our industrial-strength earplugs - and for the two beers we each quaffed on DeBull's rooftop patio, and for the two Advil PMs we swallowed before lying down. It had taken us over twenty-four hours of (mostly) sleepless travel to reach this room; we slept like the dead.

Sadly, our second stay at Life Camp Hotel was not as passable as our first. At the end of the week, when we returned to Accra from Kumasi, we found our original room unavailable. Thus, we spent my final night in Ghana in a room whose bathroom had neither a toilet seat nor running water. We felt sorry for ourselves, but sorrier still for the maid.

There's one thing I never worked out about Life Camp Hotel: does its name contain a religious allusion? This is nearly ubiquitous among small businesses in Ghana. Sometimes, the pairing seems forced - Saviour's Precious Blood Fast Food, anyone? - but other times, it's on the nose:

God's Way Alignment (an auto repair shop)
Holy Spirit & VIP Herbal (a homeopath?)
Baby Jesus Day Care