I PLANNED MY TRIP TO GHANA IN 2023 WITH LESS THAN $1000 || HERE IS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW!!

Hi guys welcome back to my channel and welcome to another video guys I know I know I haven't sat down to do a video in such a long time that I've almost forgotten what it's like to sit down and actually film a proper sit down video for you guys. My apologies I literally had to put the family reunion series on hold because you guys will let me rest in the DMS, you will not let me rest in the comments about this video and I had plans of putting out this video after the family reunion series is over but you guys have been in my DMS, you have been in the comments asking Alma where is that how to plan a trip to Ghana video? When is that video going up? So here I am doing this video for you guys. In this video I'm going to be letting you into everything I did, how I planned my trip to Ghana, how much I spent, how much the trip cost me, blah blah blah, everything you need to know, all the frequently asked questions about that trip, I will be answering in this video. Now if this is something that you definitely want to see, then keep on watching. Okay so first things first, I planned my trip to Ghana in the space of two weeks, like in fact a week and some days because I feel like myself and my travel partner Jennifer, we just discussed about that trip like once or twice and the next time we discussed about that trip it was like book flights, book apartments, let's go. It wasn't like planning and talking about a vacation for like 1 million years before it finally happened, no, it was a bam bam bam let's go kind of vacation, alright? Which I think is very important if you really want to travel, I feel like when you are spawning over planning, over talking about it, over, it's just too much, it's just travel, it's just a trip, there's no scenario about it, okay? Now I traveled to Ghana, or rather I planned my trip to Ghana with less than a thousand dollars and I will let you guys into the tea on how I was able to do that. Fun fact, fun fact, I did not plan my trip using any agents, yes? For those who have been asking me the DMs, give me your agent's contact, give me your agent's number, there is no agent. The agent is me. Agent Alma. It is me that planned the trip by myself, alright? You guys know how expensive traveling is, like going to any country right now, no matter how close that country is to you, has become so expensive, so it was very very important for me to find a way to plan this trip without spending too much money, alright? Let's go into the video proper, okay? Okay, number one, obviously the first thing you need to travel to Ghana from Nigeria is a passport, obviously. In fact, going to any country in this world, before you leave this country, you must have an international passport, and being a Nigerian passport holder, you don't need a visa to go to Ghana, yay, because you and I know that we don't like visa process and visa wahala, so going to Ghana from Nigeria is super easy for you because you do not need a visa to go to Ghana. As it is with traveling in recent times, you would definitely need to go with your full vaccination COVID card, your COVID vaccination card, you must have been vaccinated fully, obviously, before you can leave the country to go anywhere, so make sure that you have taken your complete doses for your COVID vaccine, very very important, especially if travel is on your bucket list, trust me, just go and take that vaccine and rest, okay? It will make traveling a lot easier for you. Next document you would need to travel to Ghana from Nigeria, and I have touched on this before in my travel prep video, is you would need a yellow fever card, otherwise known as a yellow card, I didn't even know this until like days to our trip, okay? It's very important, I think that is an important document for you to have if you're going to any other African country, I know that to go to South Africa, you need that card, to go to other parts of Africa, you need that card, so it's very easy to get, just go to any Ministry of Health in your location, and get it done there, it didn't cost us too much, about 2,600 Naira is what it cost us to take that vaccine, and it is valid for 10 years, so you'll have that card for 10 whole years, you can travel anywhere within Africa or any country that demands that you have that card within the next 10 years, until you have to take another vaccine again, so yes, your passport, your Covid card, and your yellow card, those three things are what you'll be needing to go to Ghana from Nigeria, next thing obviously, you'd have to book a flight, now to the best of my knowledge, there are two airlines that go to Accra from Nigeria, and those are Our Air and Airpeace, Our Air is Africa World Airlines, something like that, and then of course you guys know Airpeace, the only airline that flies to Accra from Abuja, where I live, is Our Air, and Airpeace flies only from Lagos, I used Airpeace, and I'll tell you why, by the time we checked the return ticket to Ghana from Abuja, and return tickets to Ghana from Lagos, including a round trip from Abuja to Lagos, it was still a lot cheaper than flying from Abuja, flying on Our Airlines from Abuja would have cost us almost 400,000 Naira, but traveling through Lagos using Airpeace, even with the return flight from Abuja to Lagos, round trip to Lagos, to and through Lagos, 50k going, 50k coming back, and then Lagos to Accra was about 89,000 Naira, and Accra back to Lagos was about 95,000 Naira, all in all, we didn't even spend up to 300,000 Naira, the round figure that we paid per person was about 280 something thousand Naira to go to Ghana, compared to if I was flying from Abuja, I would have still had to add a whole hundred thousand Naira on top of that, so that was another way that we cut costs. All we had to do was to book our flights in a way that we would not miss our connecting flights, and we were good to go. The flight on Airpeace was okay, I mean Accra to Lagos, Lagos-Accra is not a far distance, it's less than one hour, and the flight was okay in my opinion, it was okay. It is an international flight, so definitely you will be leaving from an international terminal, we had to land in Lagos in the morning, and then take a boat to an international terminal to check in for our flight to Accra, and back, the same thing right? So yeah, a bit of a hassle, just a little tiny itty bitty bit of a hassle, but for more than a hundred thousand Naira to be saved, I was willing and ready and happy that I did that. The next thing, apartments, Airbnb, hotel. You guys, my apartment, I cannot count the number of questions I've gotten about my apartment, where I stayed, and if you watched the Ghana vlogs, I'm sure you'll have that burning question, where is this apartment? What is the name of this apartment? Now, let me tell you guys something, I told you guys before, I booked my trip myself, I planned this trip myself, in fact, Jennifer if you are watching, Jennifer had little or nothing to contribute to the planning of this trip, I literally planned the whole thing myself. I went on Booking.com guys, Booking.com is such a lifesaver, and when I searched for apartments in Accra, the apartment that we finally went with, was one of the very top ones that was recommended to us by Booking.com, and it's called Accra Luxury Apartments at the Lenox. I will leave the name on the screen in case you are wondering, and I would also leave the link in my description box to check it out. We loved our apartment so much guys, I feel like my apartment was one of my, if not my major highlights of staying in Accra. The apartment is not too far from the airport, and we went with a studio apartment, initially we wanted a one-bedroom apartment, you know with a kitchen, a living space, but to be honest, we were just two, we didn't really need that, so we went with a studio apartment that had a kitchenette still, a nice kitchenette, you guys would have seen that in the vlogs, a nice bed, sweet room, like that place is so modern, it's very new, they literally opened in October of last year or so, so it's fairly new, and our hosts, oh my god our hosts, Solomon was amazing, he was so hands-on, he was at our every beck and call, and always ready to help us out with anything that we needed, it was a pleasant stay in that place, and if I go back to Accra, I would definitely, definitely stay there, it has this amazing rooftop pool, it has an amazing cafe downstairs, like that place is so, so beautiful, it was close, it was literally like 10 minutes away from the airport, like see guys, I can rave and go on and on about that apartment, it was amazing, and I was super, super happy that it didn't go with a regular Airbnb, because to be honest, our other option was just like a normal Airbnb, that didn't have that many facilities, but I'm super happy that we went with this option instead, trust me, if you are going on a holiday, do it and do it properly, that is me. Now for the apartment that we stayed in, the studio apartment, the round figure, by the time you know, I got one or two discounts and blah, blah, blah, it cost us about $692, do the calculation in Naira so you would know, but because we were two, we split it, guys, travel with somebody, have a travel partner if you can, or travel partners, that way, trust me, you can travel as much as you can, if you have a partner, because why? Your costs are split, the only thing you'll be paying for in full, most likely will be your flight ticket, or every other thing for the most part will be, you know, split into two or three or four as the case may be, and in this case, I ended up paying personally roughly about three hundred and forty something dollars to stay for six nights in my apartment, right? I paid half of that, and Jennifer paid half of that, so check that, like I mean for that kind of apartment, that's amazing. Alright, so that's that about apartments, flights, and all of that. In dollars, my flights cost me $363, my apartments cost me $346 for six nights, okay? That's how much already, I'll leave it on the screen. Now, to be honest, going to Ghana, you don't need to hold a lot of money, I feel like for me, Ghana was a bit more affordable, for me, it was a bit more affordable, I know that, you know, affordability is relative, but for me, Ghana was not as expensive as I thought it was going to be, you can go, definitely, you have to hold cash if you're going, it's advisable that you go with dollars, obviously, change some money at the airports, change to Ghana CDs, so they can have money to move around. For transports, we're moving around mostly with boats, yes, there's boats in Ghana, and to be honest, I feel like boats was a lot cheaper than it is here in Nigeria, so for most of our running around, we're using boats. For meals, we're not eating like three square meals, maybe we'll be eating like twice a day, breakfast and late lunch, or breakfast and dinner, maybe like snacking in between. I don't think there was any day we had breakfast, lunch, dinner. No. Most times, it would be breakfast or brunch, and then dinner, or brunch and then lunch, you know, it was always like two times a day. So all of those things, transportation, you know, eating out, whether you're gonna be eating at your apartment, there at the cafe, or you know, trying out restaurants and stuff, visiting the mall and buying a few things, going to the market, buying a few things, going to the art center to buy souvenirs and kente, and all of that, going to some tourist attractions like Black Star Square, it's completely free, you don't have to pay for that. Labadi Beach, I think we paid about 25 cedis or so per person to go in there, and when we went in there, we had mostly like local beach snacks, bananas, local beach ice cream, you know, drinks, like we didn't have like proper food at the beach. And then, to be honest, the rest of our tours and things to do, we're visiting restaurants, you know, restaurants that we had been buying, restaurants that people have actually told us to visit, you know, the beach club, most of these places you don't have to pay to enter, you'll pay if you want to order a drink or have a meal and all of that. Guys, I would leave where to go, things to do, where I went to in Ghana in the box, description box below, so you can check it out, but to be honest, I feel like if I were to do a round figure of how much I spent restaurants hopping, going to the beach, shopping, doing that, that, that, that, like I said before, this trip was not basically a shopping trip for me, it was more of a tourist trip, shopping for me was just for my immediate family, just one or two things here and there, it wasn't a flamboyant luxury shopping trip, so I feel like if I do a rough calculation of how much I spent, based on how much I took to Ghana in cash, roughly about $300 would cover all of that, transport, moving around, eating, shopping, $300, and if you spend judiciously, trust me, you'll come back with change, okay? I think I even had roughly about almost $100 left, and I spent that as duty-free at the airport to pick up a few things, coming back to Nigeria, and yeah, that was it guys, basically like that was it. If I'm very correct, I didn't spend up to $1,000 traveling to Accra for six whole days and six whole nights, okay? We didn't need a tour guide, we never used a tour guide like throughout this trip, everywhere that we went to in Ghana, I already pre-planned and pre-scheduled them in my itinerary, Monday we are going here and here, Tuesday we're going here and here, just so that you don't wake up in the morning and you're just like, oh my god, where am I going today? I already knew where and where I wanted us to go while we're in Ghana, so it was easier to get up and just move, there was no tour guide, there was no nothing, we just went to Ghana by ourselves and had a good time by ourselves, okay? In case you're wondering, we didn't buy SIM cards in Ghana, I just felt like there was no need, we had Wi-Fi in our apartment and we had a portable Wi-Fi that we would take out with us in case we needed to make like WhatsApp calls and all of that, that was how we survived for six nights without having an actual SIM card in Ghana, but if you don't have a portable Wi-Fi that you can use there, definitely you might have to get a SIM card for us, we actually didn't need to do that. Like I said before, expenses were mostly done in cash, I swiped my dollar card a few times once or twice, but trust me, nothing crazy, nothing out of this world, if you have a dollar card, yes, it's advisable that you travel with it, because you don't know what you're gonna get into, so yes, I did swipe my card once or twice, but for the most part, I spent in cash. And yeah guys, that is everything about my Ghana trip, how much I spent, how much the trip cost me, things you need to know, things you need to have and all that, hope you guys enjoyed watching this video, I hope that now I can rest from this trip, for you people, okay? But just to let you know, that traveling to Ghana is no big deal, there's no scenario about it, just get on the airline websites, book your flights, carry your passport, carry your yellow card and your COVID card, carry money, book an apartment on Booking.com and you are good to go. Give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed watching, don't forget to subscribe to my channel and guess in the comment section below, where I'll be traveling to, because traveling is still gonna happen this year, by the grace of God, so let me know in the comments where you think I'm going to next and I'll see you guys in my next video, bye!