to take up again this older discussion.
I agree that the hotel “le Merville” comes pretty close but it cant be the exact location, at least not when the Coin de Mire is in place in the movie. Therefore is needs to have been a location more closer to Cap Malheureux, but also not too far east. In the beginnig of the movie when they are arriving in the Hotel, you can see the coin from the mire from the side and just behind it the ile plat. It is seen in an angle in which both islands cannot be clearly seperated as two islands. You only have this view in the area between Pereybere and cap Malheureux. So therefore, from the hotels existing today, it could only be the “Coin de Mire Attitude Hotel”…wich however looks different to the one in the movie. So I imagine that they have knocked it down completely and rebuild something else…
Another thing I noted is that when they arrive in the hotel, it is written “anse rene” on the reception desk, that sounds pretty similar to “anse la raine” which is a place east of cap malheureux. But then, this couldn’t have been the place, because from there you will see coin the mire and ile plat clearly as two seperate islands…