A man who has “lived in Benidorm for at least seven or eight years” has shared three of the moments that had him wondering whether he’d actually made the right choice, or whether he should swiftly catch a plane back to the UK.
Harry, who posts on TikTok as @harrytokky, regularly shares lifestyle content from Benidorm, and he’s recently shared the “most dangerous slash scariest situations” that he’d found himself in while in the Spanish party capital.
Nearly getting run over by a bus
“Yes, you heard, ran over,” Harry explained. He continued: “It was one of these back roads here in Benidorm where people drive at mental speeds, and to be honest, they were so close to hitting me.
“I literally had to run out of the way of the road, it was awful”.
Random police search
Harry explained he’d been stopped by police, and they “literally said random search” to him. He claimed they were looking for “the naughty stuff,” which Harry said he “didn’t have”.
“They did a full-on search on the side of the road here in Benidorm. I honestly thought they were going to handcuff me, chuck me in the back of a car and throw away the key,” Harry claimed.
Nearly getting mugged
“This is definitely number one by far,” Harry shared, explaining: “I was walking down one of the back alleys […] from the beach to the main road and a guy came up to me, shook my hand, twisted my arm around my back and all of this”.
He said that this was an attempt to “rob” him of his belongings, saying that it was the “worst experience,” and it would leave anybody shaken up.
He did say, however, that he wasn’t sharing his experiences to “scare anyone off Benidorm,” but instead, he wanted to equip people with the knowledge that these things can happen so they can try and protect themselves.
“Stuff like this does happen everywhere in the world,” Harry reiterated. “But because I live here, it’s happened to me, and I wanted to speak about it.”
In the comments, someone said he’d lived a “crazy life” while he’d been in Benidorm, and Harry replied: “I know right, super crazy”.
However, there are some perks to Benidorm – you can get a really cheap McDonald’s.
Sitting outside, he said: “And just like that, the food has arrived. Now you will not believe how cheap this was. We’ve got two meals here. Guess how much this costs? €11 (£9.53)”.
Harry continued, explaining that there are two fries, two burgers, two drinks, and some chicken nuggets on the side as well.
He gushed: “I mean, €11? What do you think guys? I think that’s an absolute bargain, let’s be honest. €11? In the UK, that’d probably be at least £20.”
In the UK, a large Big Mac meal costs around £7.69, depending on location. Meanwhile, six chicken nuggets cost around £3.49, depending on location.