Rooms & grounds
Nine rooms, eleven acres and one very cold stone pool, ninety minutes above the traffic on the Accra road.
Nine rooms
Where you would sleep
Every room has a bed, a chair, a window and a bath. None of them has a television, a minibar or a lock, and none of them ever will.
Ridge rooms
Four rooms along the top of the escarpment, each with a wide window onto the forest and a stone plunge bath on its own verandah. The light arrives in them first.
Four rooms
Plunge bath
Sleeps 2
Garden rooms
Three rooms lower down, opening straight onto the herb beds. Warmer at night, closer to the kitchen, and the ones returning guests ask for by name.
Three rooms
Herb garden
Sleeps 2
The eaves
Two rooms under the roof of the old house, low-ceilinged and quiet. Singles by default, and the only rooms in which we will put one person at a shared rate.
Two rooms
Single by default
Sleeps 1
Eleven acres
The grounds
The ridge runs from the gatehouse down to the stream in about twenty minutes on foot, and rather longer if you stop, which most people do by the third day.
The stone pool
Spring-fed, cold all year, and the reason the sauna is where it is. Open from first light until the mosquitoes decide otherwise.
Somewhere to do nothing
There are eleven hammocks, four verandahs and one very good armchair in the library. Finding your own is part of the week.
The small print
In every room
A bed made up in cotton
Woven at Bonwire and changed twice a week. If the room is warm there is a fan; nobody has ever asked us for air conditioning twice.
Your own bath, outside
Stone, cold, and yours alone. On the ridge rooms it is on the verandah; in the garden rooms it is three steps into the herb bed.
No lock and no key
Rooms do not lock, and in fifteen years nothing has gone missing. Valuables live in the safe at the office, which does lock.
Come and be still.
Nine rooms, six dates a year, and a gatehouse ninety minutes out of Accra. Write to us and we will tell you honestly which week is yours.