Even I cannot figure out where this is. The card only says Sint Maarten N.W.I./St. Martin F.W.I.

That is a French flag though, so I assume it has to be on the French side.
does it look familiar to anyone?



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Le Grand St Martin in Marigot? Galis Bay is the distance?

Or...

Could it be Coralita?

I was thinkin the old Buccanneer or Le Pirate that used to be right before you got to Marigo before they rebuilt the area. Had quite a few drinks therein the afternoon after a day in the area if its the same place. If not then I got no idea.

That is what I was thinking as well, Le Pirate right before Marigot

LePirate. Thanks annemarieke, I couldn't remember which one it was but I guess now the question is are we right.

We are back and forth with Barbara on email about this picture since this morning.
My first guess was Le Gd St Martin because of Galisbay on the background.
I don't think it the Pirate though, nor the old St tropez hotel, because if it was, I beleive you could see some part of Marigot on the backround... The beach seems to go up to the end, which it would not be the case if it was Le Pirate, because you shoud see part of the old fisherman harbor futher down. Which you don't see. That's why I eliminate the Pirate.
I thought it could be the old Galion hotel also, but not sure if there was a pool so close from the water...
I am still going back to the location where the Gd St Martin was built, maybe it was a first "version" of it?

Kind Regards,
Philippe



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Actually, I don't think we are! I now think it is the hotel where the Heineken people where staying remember that? On the other side of Marigot.

I agree with Philippe. Le Grand St Martin should be the one! That had all the flags before as well. Absolutly not Le Gallion because that never had a pool.

Like I said to Barbara, I was extremly close to the Mallortigues Family (of France) who built the Grand St Martin and developped Marina Royale, since they were the ones who looked after me when I was doing my studies in France and my Parents were still in Africa, but now they are all dead, so I cannot call anyone to confirm. But like I said also to Barbara, the buildings really look familiar to me, and maybe it is because I already saw some pictures of them back in that old time when I was with them in France...
I really think it is the Grand St Martin, or at least the firt hotel at that location.

Kind Regards,
Philippe



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Yup, I am with you on that!

this is the grand st martin but it doesn't really help because it doesn't show any hills.





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Phillipe,
Definitely, Le Grand!! I can see the room I stayed in near the pool!! The beach is now a roadway!! That was a nice place, back in the day!!


Contessa

I beleive there were two version of the Grand St Martin... The first one, smaller and more quaint hotel, and then they leveled it down and built the new one (in Barbara's last picture) much bigger and less quaint... Now, today it is a private appartement complex, like the former Mt Vernon Hotel. Each room unit had been sold privatly, and it look like a mess... How sad!

Kind Regards,
Philippe



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Contessa
My last picture is Le Grand,of course, but what is the first picture?
That's the one we are confused about.

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If you look at the two pictures, the pools are not the same, nor is the orientation of the pool edge to the seawall. Parallel in the second picture, not in the first. Unless a new pool was put in when the resort was rebuilt.