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Honoré police station Catherine’s bar(s)Īnother regular location is Catherine’s bar (owned by Catherine Bordey – mayor of Saint Marie island and mother of original detective Camille Borday). There’s actually a big cemetery on a hill overlooking Deshaies but it’s usually excluded from filming, though you can sometimes spot it in the background. One thing you don’t see on screen though is a cemetery – and they’d clearly need one with that murder rate (though with so many British victims, maybe they’re all sent home?). Out front there’s a car park which is where they park the police jeeps, which has been used for a street market in a few episodes. It was closed and deserted when we visited so no chance of having a peek inside, but other than the Honoré police sign being missing, it looked just like it does on screen – right down to the chickens pecking around outside. In real life the police incident room is Deshaies’ priest’s office, and the church hall next door is used for the cells.

It’s next to Deshaies church in the centre of town, so it’s really easy to find. The first stop is the show’s most important location – Honoré police station. But if you want to see further afield, there are a couple of guided tours available though Pelican Safari or Coeur des Iles, or you could hire a car and driver. If you’re short on time or don’t have a car, you can spend the day in Deshaies (reachable by taxi or bus from the island’s capital Pointe-à-Pitre) and explore a few of the main locations on foot. Which is good news if you want to explore them yourself, as their concentration around Deshaies makes it easy to do a do-it-yourself Death in Paradise location tour. The show’s location team have done a clever job in making a small stretch of coast in the top left corner of Guadeloupe look like a whole island worth of different locations. The waterfront in Deshaies Death in Paradise filming locations around Deshaies As well as the main filming sites, it also crops up as the harbour where people arrive or leave the island, it’s in a lot of background street scenes, and practically every posh rental villa in the area has had one murder in it. One thing I discovered when I started looking for Death in Paradise locations is just how many of them are in and around Deshaies. In real life, it’s a fairly sleepy fishing port with waterfront bars and restaurants that are a favourite stop for yachties sailing the Caribbean – and definitely not a hotbed of crime. In the show it’s Honoré, capital of Saint Marie, and is where the cast and crew are based when they film in Guadeloupe for six months each year.ĭeshaies is the pretty town you see in the aerial shots, with a red-roofed church and colourful buildings set around a semi-circular bay surrounded by jungle-covered hills.

On the north-west coast of Basse-Terre, Deshaies is the epicentre of all things Death in Paradise in Guadeloupe. But would everything be as picture-perfect as it looks on screen or is there any TV trickery? Deshaies beach and a parrot at the Botanic Gardens Where are the Death in Paradise locations? Saint Marie island is a figment of the writers’ imagination, but the gorgeous locations you see on screen do exist, and in reality most of them are found on Guadeloupe’s Basse-Terre island.ĭeath in Paradise is what first introduced me to Guadeloupe, so I couldn’t resist tracking down some of its filming locations when I visited the island. But you’ll have trouble tracking it down on any map.

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The series is set on the Caribbean island of Saint Marie, which supposedly lies just off the coast of Guadeloupe. But when it’s cold and grey outside, Death in Paradise is like a dose of virtual sunshine being beamed into your living room.ĭeath in Paradise filming locations Deshaies, main filming location for the show Where is Death in Paradise filmed? Yes this series about a slightly bumbling British detective solving murders on a Caribbean island might be a bit formulaic and you do have to wonder how many people can possibly be knocked off on one tiny island. On air during the worst of the British winter, it’s no wonder the BBC TV series Death in Paradise has become so popular, with its 12th series on the UK TV screens in 2023. So you turn on the TV to be greeted with sunny skies, sandy beaches, palm trees and colourful streets (plus a dead body or two, but we’ll skate over that bit). Outside the rain’s lashing down, the wind’s blowing a gale and the temperature is well below freezing. * This site contains affiliate links, where I get a small commission from purchases at no extra cost to you. Where is TV series Death in Paradise filmed? Discover the real-life Saint Marie island on a tour of Death in Paradise locations around Deshaies on the island of Guadeloupe in the French Caribbean.

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