About
IT STARTED ASsomebody’sBEACH HOUSE
Long before there was a resort here, there was Captan’s Cabin: the Captan family’s house on the Prampram shore, and one of the reasons Ghanaians started coming to this stretch of coast at all.
The story
The Captan family helped put Prampram and New Ningo on the map as somewhere worth driving to. Their seaside house was the start of it. What has grown around that house is The C Resort & Residences, and the intention was never to replace the original thing so much as open it up.
The resort is managed today by Index Hotels SA. Eighteen acres of landscaped grounds run down to a private beach in a cove, sheltered from the open Atlantic by 120 metres of sea defence. That last detail is the whole reason people swim here rather than just look at the water.
Forty-five rooms, suites and apartments sit across the estate, along with three pools, a spa, courts, a petting zoo, and a stretch of sand where Olive Ridley turtles nest.
How it is made
Carved by hand, and not subtly
Every headboard is worked from solid local timber, most of them carrying a palm motif deep enough to cast a shadow. Lighting is shaped from calabash. Above each bed hangs a canvas by a Ghanaian artist, and no two rooms have the same one.
It is not a restrained interior scheme and it is not trying to be. The point is that somebody made these, here, by hand.
The shoreline
We share the beach
The sand in front of the resort is a nesting site. More than 30,000 Olive Ridley hatchlings have gone down it and into the Atlantic. The beach is kept quiet through nesting season, the nests are watched, and guests are invited down when a launch happens.
The turtle in the logo is not decoration. It is who else lives here.
And the rest of them
Nobody moves the horses along
Horses and donkeys graze the lawns between the pool and the terrace, and they have the run of the place. There is a petting zoo besides: ostriches, pygmy goats, and land tortoises that are older than most of the buildings.
What is coming
An expanded beach club with al fresco seafood dining, bought from the fishermen working this coast. Upgraded rooms and in-room amenities. A spa. More on the water.