Guides
Guides for towers, flats, hotels and the doors in between
What to do, rather than who to call: short, practical pieces for the way people live, let and holiday in Benidorm. Each one ends by pointing at the service it belongs to.
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Towers and flats
- Towers and flats
Shut out on your own balcony, twenty floors up
A sliding door that latches behind you turns a view into a problem. What to do if it happens, and the small change that stops it.
- Towers and flats
What the conserje can and cannot do when you are locked out
The concierge in your tower runs the building, not your flat. Knowing the difference saves a wasted conversation at the worst possible moment.
- Towers and flats
Wintering in Benidorm: check the lock on a rented flat first
Three months in a rented flat from October? Ten minutes with the doors, the keys and the balcony on the first day saves a bad night in January.
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Hotels and lets
- Hotels and lets
Aparthotel or holiday flat: who fixes the door?
They look the same on a booking site. When the lock fails at eleven at night, the difference between them decides who you ring.
- Hotels and lets
The hotel room safe will not open. Who do you ask?
Passport inside, flight tomorrow, and the safe says no. Why room safes lock up, why reception is always the first call, and when a locksmith is.
2 guides
Keys and people
- Keys and people
Bag snatched with the apartment keys inside
Cards, documents and the keys to where you are staying, all gone at once. The first hour has an order to it, and the lock comes later than you think.
- Keys and people
Fancy Dress Thursday, and the keys that do not come home
The November fiestas bring one of the biggest costume parties in Europe to Benidorm's streets. Costumes rarely come with pockets.
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Doors and locks
- Doors and locks
A new tower in Poniente, and the keys you never saw
Before you collected the keys to your new flat, a lot of other people had them. Who they were, and when a new cylinder is worth it.
- Doors and locks
Puerta blindada or acorazada: what your apartment door really is
Spanish flat listings love the words "puerta blindada". What blindada and acorazada really mean, how to tell yours apart, and why the lock matters more.
- Doors and locks
What Benidorm's crime figures say about your front door
The Interior Ministry publishes Benidorm's recorded crime every quarter. Read properly, the 2025 figures point at the bag, not the lock.
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