We caught up with the Marketing Manager of Montpelier Plantation and Beach, Kakia Michou, to find out why their dining experience is so unique. And if you’re still unsure of where you want to go or what type of holiday to book, get in touch here and one of the Designer Travel experts will be in contact to help you arrange your perfect tailor-made break.Treat yourself to dinner inside a 300 year-old sugar mill Inspired to visit Guadeloupe but yet to book your trip? Here are the best packages from Expedia. Guadeloupe is an overseas French region, which means rules that would apply to France also apply to its territories. Want to hire a car to get around the island? Book it at least three months in advance if you’re planning on visiting in the peak season. There are no direct flights so you’ll usually have one or two stopovers.
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You can fly from Heathrow or Manchester to Pointe-à-Pitre - the largest city in Guadeloupe. Bradley Faircroft (Simon Lenagan) and Connor Faircroft (Jason Done) on set ( Denis Guyenon) How can I travel to Guadeloupe? Although it’s unknown exactly when it’s shot, filming is most likely to take place between December and May to guarantee blue skies and avoid hurricane season (typically between August and September). The show is filmed over a six-month period. It’s three miles north of Deshaies and is taken down and put in storage between shoots to prevent it from being washed away when the tide comes in during the winter months.īook a hotel in Deshaies* What time of year is Death in Paradise filmed? The detectives’ rickety shack is a temporary structure erected on Anse de la Perle beach. The popular beach shack ‘Catherine’s Bar’, where murder plots are solved over martinis, is filmed in a restaurant called Le Madras in Deshaies. Catherine’s Bar, or Le Madras ( Alamy) 2. The crime-solving base for Honoré police station is the Presbytery attached to the church of St Peter and St Paul - which you can find in the centre of Deshaies. The Deshaies church that doubles as the police station ( Alamy) 1. And, if you want to visit the other islands in the Lesser Antilles, you’ll find regular, cheap ferries which allow you to easily hop from island to island. The hotel is a handy base to explore the paradise setting of the Jardin Botanique de Deshaies. This is also where the lucky cast and crew live when they film for six months of the year, staying at the Langley Fort Royal Hotel - which is conveniently also used as the setting for many scenes where hapless victims meet their demise.
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The red roofs and jungle-blanketed hills you’ll see in aerial shots actually belong to Deshaies, a quiet fishing port that, in real life, is freckled with bars and restaurants frequented by cruisers. Guadeloupe is a group of 12 islands and islets in the Lesser Antilles chain and each scene is filmed on one of these islands - mostly on the north-west coast of Basse Terre. Main photo: Deshaies Bay, Guadeloupe (Alamy) Commissioner Selwyn Patterson (Don Warrington) and Darlene Curtis (Ginny Holder) ( Denis Guyenon) Where is Death in Paradise shot? Fancy a visit? Here are the filming locations, so you can sink into the same sands as DI Neville Parker (Ralf Little) and Marlon Pryce (Tahj Miles) - without any of the drama. In the past, it’s caused searches for Guadeloupe to skyrocket as holidaymakers plan their own escape to the utopian setting.
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Series 11 of the crime drama is under way, after the Caribbean authorities granted the BBC permission to film in 2020 during the pandemic. Kaleidoscopic botanical gardens, a crescent of honey-coloured sand and flowing cocktails at Catherine’s Bar have us all asking the same question: where exactly is this paradise? Death in Paradise is filmed in Guadeloupe, a French overseas region in the Caribbean’s Leeward Islands.