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Two days is enough to hit 3 beaches, 2 markets and one very loud club night. Here is the tight version.

7 days lets you go beyond the Phase 1 loop: 2 island beaches, an Epe day trip and a proper night out in Victoria Island.

You can do Lekki for around $60 a day if you stay off the private beaches and eat where the drivers eat.

Three days at the top end: a private beach day, a chef tasting menu and a booth at one of Lagos's loudest clubs.

One hour east down the Lekki-Epe Expressway gets you to a working fish market and a lagoon full of stilt villages.

A 30-minute speedboat ride and you are on a barrier-island beach with private villas, grills and no cell reception.

20 minutes across the harbour to Lagos's only surfable, swimmable, walk-your-shoreline-safely beach.

A heavy but essential 2-hour drive west to Nigeria's slave history museums, first-storey building and Point of No Return.

An hour east on Lekki-Epe Expressway to a full-service beach resort with a lagoon, ocean and camel rides for $40 a day.

5 neighbourhoods, from Phase 1 luxury towers to Ikate shortlets and Chevron Drive guesthouses.

The window is narrow: 4 dry months a year, one Detty December and a long wet season you probably want to skip.

Uber, Bolt, a hired driver, or a very patient danfo ride. The wrong choice costs you 2 hours in traffic.

Cards work at 60 percent of places. The other 40 percent - beaches, markets, boats, roadside food - is cash only.

Lekki is one of the safer parts of Lagos, but you still need 5 basic rules to avoid scams and bad nights.

7 dishes you should not leave Lekki without eating, and the specific places on Admiralty and Fola Osibo that do them best.

4 markets, from the tourist-friendly arts and crafts to the working fish jetty at Epe: what to buy, when to go, what to pay.

8 places to eat well in Lekki for under $10 a plate, from bukas on Fola Osibo to suya grills that open at 8pm.

6 things you can do in Lekki for the price of the Uber to get there.

9 venues from the $10-cover lounges on Admiralty to the $300-minimum booths at Quilox, and honest calls on which are worth the money.

6 places to be at 6:15pm in Lekki, from a free bridge walk to a $15 rooftop cocktail with the whole skyline in front of you.