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Benidorm is best known for its skyline, but behind the hotels there are thousands of privately owned apartments, many belonging to British owners who use them for part of the year or let them to holidaymakers.
Homes in Benidorm
Most homes are apartments in the tower blocks of Levante, Poniente and Rincón de Loix, with older flats in the town centre and villas on the hills at Sierra Dorada and Coblanca. On a high floor the front door is the only real way in; on lower floors, balconies count too.
Neighbourhoods
Every part of Benidorm is covered. These are the areas we are asked about most, and what the homes there are usually like.
The busy eastern beach, lined with tower blocks of holiday apartments. Most flats here belong to private owners who use them for part of the year or let them to visitors.
The quieter western beach, with long rows of apartment towers facing the sea and more owners who stay for the whole winter.
At the far end of Levante, a lively area of apartments and hotels where many British visitors stay, with lots of holiday lets and short stays.
The old centre on the headland between the two beaches, with narrow streets of older flats and townhouses, often with street-level doors.
Strictly part of Finestrat, La Cala sits at the end of Poniente, with apartment blocks right by the beach, many of them second homes.
Residential areas on the hills behind the town, with villas and terraced houses, gardens and views over the bay.
The right set-up
The free survey decides the final kit, but this is what we usually fit in Benidorm, depending on the kind of home.
A Benidorm apartment is usually entered through its front door, so the Kit Tranquilidad covers it well: a door sensor, camera detectors in the hall and living room, a keypad and the siren. Lower-floor balconies get their own sensor.
Older townhouses in the centre have street doors and ground-floor windows. Each gets a sensor, with a camera detector covering the main room.
Villas in Sierra Dorada or Coblanca have gardens and several terraces. We suggest the Plus kit with an outdoor detector, so the alert comes before anyone reaches the house.
Local advice
The front door is the weak point, so a door sensor and a camera detector covering the hallway do most of the work.
Give your property manager a tag rather than a code, disarm the alarm while guests are in and arm it again when they check out.
If a balcony can be reached from the street or a neighbouring terrace, it gets a sensor too.
Local guide
Benidorm is full of privately owned apartments, and most of the people who contact us own one of them: a flat in Levante or Poniente used for part of the year and let in between. The alarm has to work around guests, cleaners and managers without anyone needing to know a code.
High-rise flats are usually entered through the front door, often when the intruder knows nobody is in. A door sensor and a camera detector covering the hallway catch that immediately. On lower floors and in older buildings in the centre, add the balcony and any window that can be reached from outside.
If you let the apartment, agree a simple routine with your manager: disarm when guests arrive, turn off any indoor camera while they stay, and arm again after the changeover clean. You see every step in the app, wherever you are.
Living with an alarm in Benidorm
Benidorm is one of the few places on the Costa Blanca that is busy all year round, but private apartments still spend long spells empty between their owners’ visits or holiday lets. Winter brings long-stay visitors, summer brings families, and in between many flats sit quiet for weeks. The alarm follows that rhythm: armed when nobody is in, disarmed for guests and cleaners, and checked from your phone.
Empty apartments in big blocks can be targeted by people looking for somewhere to occupy, and in Spain the first hours decide how easy they are to remove. If the police are called while the door is being forced, they can act at once. If nobody notices for weeks, it usually ends up in court. A monitored alarm makes sure somebody notices straight away.
Alicante-Elche airport is around 45 minutes away by car. If you’re not in Benidorm for the installation, your property manager, a neighbour or a friend can let the technician in. Installation is usually arranged within 1 to 5 days of signing up.
How it protects you
The same thing happens whether you are asleep in the UK or at the beach down the road.
A door opens or a camera detector picks up movement, and the images go to Segurma’s monitoring centre.
An operator looks at the images before anyone is called, so false alarms do not send the police to your door.
With the images as evidence: a report from a licensed security company, not a vague call from a neighbour.
The alert reaches your phone wherever you are, and the siren lets the intruder know they have been seen.
While you are away
When owners who let their flat ask us about Benidorm alarm systems, one worry comes up again and again: how many keys to the front door are out there? Say you spend the winter in your apartment in Poniente and let it through a manager from May to October. Guests lose keys on the beach, leave them in hire cars, lend them to friends staying at a hotel down the road. Now picture a night in late September, between the last summer guests and your own return in November. Your manager armed the flat with her tag after the changeover clean, and you saw it in the app on the train home in Leeds. Late that night the front door opens smoothly, with a key, and nobody goes near the keypad.
A forced lock is obvious. A key turning quietly in a tower block where the faces change every week is not, and that is where a monitored alarm earns its keep in Benidorm. The door sensor and the camera detector in the hall send their images and sound to Segurma’s Alarm Receiving Centre, where an operator watches a man in a cap light his way down your hallway with a phone. He has not disarmed anything and he is plainly not there to clean, so the police are alerted with those images and the siren goes off above his head. On your phone in Leeds the alert sits just under that afternoon’s line, armed by the manager’s tag, and you know at once this is nobody you sent.
By breakfast your manager is at the flat with a locksmith, who changes the lock barrel while she checks the bedrooms and the balcony. You disarm the alarm from Leeds so they can work, arm it again once they have gone, and the new keys go to the manager and nobody else. Between you, you add a line to the welcome folder in the kitchen: keys back in the box at check-out, every time. Whatever the man in the cap was after, the police have his pictures from your hallway, which is a great deal more use than a guest from the floor below remembering someone odd in the lift.
The rest of the year is quieter. In April you arm the apartment from the coach to Alicante airport and glance at it again when you land. Through the summer, on the odd Saturday when a changeover runs late and the flat is left disarmed, you spot it from a deckchair in your own back garden and arm it yourself. That is what makes an apartment alarm work for a Benidorm let: you hand the flat to strangers every week, and it still only stands down for the tags and the phone you chose.
Questions
Anything else? Ask us on WhatsApp, in English.
Yes. Burglars in tower blocks come through the front door, often when they know the flat is empty. A door sensor and a camera detector in the hall catch that straight away.
You disarm the alarm from the app when guests arrive and turn off any indoor camera while they are staying, then arm it again when they leave. Your manager can use a tag.
With the Kit Tranquilidad Plus you can watch the IP camera live from your phone, and every arming and disarming shows up in the app.
Reception covers the entrance during opening hours. It doesn’t see your own door being forced at three in the morning, and it doesn’t call the police with images. The alarm does.
Yes, Benidorm and the areas around it, including La Cala on the Finestrat side and the urbanisations behind town. Put your postcode in the form and we confirm it.
No. You disarm it from the app before guests arrive, or your manager disarms it with a tag. It only reports intrusions while it is armed.
Someone needs to be at the property to let the technician in and be shown how the system works: you, a family member or someone you trust. If you'd rather be there yourself, we'll fit the date around your next trip.
Segurma, a Spanish security company founded in 1986 and listed in the Ministry of the Interior's National Private Security Register under no. 3082. Its own technicians install the system and its own Alarm Receiving Centre watches over it 24 hours a day.
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