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This small double room in east London, with its attached bathroom, has been the family’s home for seven months, and Habibah has had enough.

We were pleased to find that the double room we had booked came with a sitting room, and that the staff was some of the kindest that we encountered in all Ghana.

At a typical Ibis hotel, a chain similar to Holiday Inn, expect to pay 400-700 euros a night for a fairly basic double room with Wi-Fi and breakfast, compared with 90-200 euros normally.

A double room at the more upscale Hotel Ducs de Bourgogne near the Pont Neuf is priced on Booking.com at 1,500 euros a night, compared with 300 euros normally in summer.

A BBC journalist was able to book a double room on the barge for Monday night for a total of £93.78, though that payment has yet to be processed.