--- title: "Locksmith San Juan de Alicante | The Town and Its Huerta" description: "English-speaking locksmith for Sant Joan d’Alacant: the town, Benimagrell, Lloixa and Salafranca. Phone answered 24 hours, and the price agreed before work starts." url: "https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/" business: "Locksmith San Juan de Alicante" --- # Locksmith San Juan de Alicante, from the Plaça d’Espanya out to the old huerta A mobile locksmith for a small town with a long memory: blocks round the Plaça d’Espanya, townhouses from the boom years, fincas that have stood in the huerta since before the town was independent of Alicante. Doors opened, locks changed, the whole plot of a townhouse seen to, in English or Spanish. Open 24 hours · 7 days [+34 678 583 290](tel:+34678583290) [WhatsApp a photo](https://wa.me/34678583290?text=Hi%2C%20I%20need%20a%20locksmith%20in%20Sant%20Joan%20d%E2%80%99Alacant.%20Where%20I%20am%20(street%2C%20and%20the%20area%3A%20the%20town%2C%20Benimagrell%2C%20Lloixa%2C%20Salafranca%2C%20Fabraquer%E2%80%A6)%20and%20what%20has%20happened%3A) - Price agreed before any work - English and Spanish - Drill only with your yes ![A man in a red polo shirt walks up a paved path with a tool bag towards a woman waiting at her door; a castle on a hill and a bay are in the distance](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/images/photos/tool-bag-up-a-path-below-a-hilltop-castle.2a16c788.600.jpg) **In one line:** ring +34 678 583 290 at any hour, or send a photo of the lock and your location on WhatsApp. You get a straight answer on when someone can be there, the job is explained and priced at the door, and nothing is touched until you agree. ## Every kind of job here has a page of its own Like the old huerta channels that branched from one main acequia, every service runs off the same phone number. Each page below says how that job is done here and what it involves. - **[Emergencies](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/emergency-locksmith-san-juan-de-alicante/)** Keys left on the kitchen table, a bag lost on a fiesta night, a key that broke off in the cylinder. Somebody picks up at any hour and gives you a straight answer on when the van can be there. [Help at any hour](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/emergency-locksmith-san-juan-de-alicante/) - **[Door opening](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/door-opening-san-juan-de-alicante/)** Block flats round the town centre, armoured doors, townhouse doors, the thick timber doors of old huerta houses and inner room doors in shared flats. Latch or cylinder first; a drill only if both fail and you say yes. [How a door is opened without breaking it](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/door-opening-san-juan-de-alicante/) - **[Lock changes](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/lock-change-san-juan-de-alicante/)** Cylinders from the building boom of the 1990s and 2000s, keys that never came back from a tenant, an armoured door whose multipoint drags. Done at a time you choose, with every old key dead the moment the new cylinder goes in. [A new front-door cylinder](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/lock-change-san-juan-de-alicante/) - **[Townhouses](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/townhouse-locksmith-san-juan-de-alicante/)** An adosado or pareado has a street gate, a garage, a back door and an aluminium or uPVC patio slider, each with a lock of its own. All of them looked at in one visit, so the whole plot shuts the way it should. [Every lock of a townhouse](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/townhouse-locksmith-san-juan-de-alicante/) - **[Shops & offices](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/commercial-locksmith-san-juan-de-alicante/)** Shutter locks that seize, glass shop doors with a stubborn cylinder, an office whose keys walked out with a former employee. Booked before opening or after closing so customers never see a toolbox. [Locks for shops and offices](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/commercial-locksmith-san-juan-de-alicante/) - **[After a break-in](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/burglary-repair-san-juan-de-alicante/)** The forced door closed and locked before you go to bed, and a written note of the damage for the insurer. Later, if you want it, a high-security cylinder, a guard plate or a stronger lock where the house is weakest. [Repairing a forced door](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/burglary-repair-san-juan-de-alicante/) - **[Locked car](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/car-lockout-san-juan-de-alicante/)** Keys on the passenger seat, in the boot with the shopping, or still in the ignition with the doors locked. The car is opened without a mark, and that is the whole job: nothing is ever done with car keys themselves. [Opening a locked car](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/car-lockout-san-juan-de-alicante/) - **[Safes](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/safe-opening-san-juan-de-alicante/)** A keypad gone dark, a code that went with the previous tenant, a safe that came with the flat. Opened with the least damage it allows, and new safes bolted to something solid so they stay where they are. [A locked safe opened](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/safe-opening-san-juan-de-alicante/) ## A municipality of under ten square kilometres, in seven parts Sant Joan d’Alacant covers 9.64 km² in the middle of what was the Huerta de Alicante, with 26,834 residents (INE, 2025). Small enough to cross in minutes, but split by the N-332 and laced with old camins, so it helps to know which part you are in. - **The town centre** Round the parish church and the town hall, about 40 m above the sea - **Benimagrell** The old hamlet on the far side of the N-332, now joined to the town by building - **The carretera de Valencia** The N-332 as it crosses the municipality - **The hospital and the campus** The south of the municipality, towards Alicante - **Lloixa** A partida of the old huerta, on the camí de Lloixa - **Salafranca** A partida and estate of the old huerta - **Fabraquer Nord** The northern side, towards El Campello What to say on the phone for each of them, and the neighbours just over the line, is on [the page for Benimagrell, Lloixa, Salafranca and the rest](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/across-sant-joan/). ## From the first ring to a door that shuts properly 1. **You ring or send a WhatsApp** Say where you are and what happened. A photo of the lock and a location pin save a lot of questions. 2. **An honest estimate of the drive** You are told how long it is likely to take from where the van is, for your street at that hour. Not a promise of minutes. 3. **The door is looked at, the price agreed** What will be done and what it will cost are settled with you at the door. Nothing starts until you say so. 4. **The quiet method first** Latch or cylinder before anything else. A drill only if both fail, and only after you have agreed to it. ## Promises you can hold this business to - The phone is answered by a person, day and night. - No arrival time is promised that cannot be kept: you get an honest estimate instead. - The price is agreed with you before work starts, never after. - Proof of the right to open a door, a car or a safe is asked for every time. Reviews will appear on [the reviews page](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/reviews/) once customers can leave them on a profile the business cannot edit. Until then, [here is how the work is done](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/about/). ## Two names, keys, price, language and distance ### Why does this town have two names, and which goes on the address? Sant Joan d’Alacant is the official, Valencian name and San Juan de Alicante the Spanish one; either works on an address, with the postcode 03550. Playa de San Juan is different: a beach district of the city of Alicante, about two kilometres away. ### Do you cut keys or make copies while you are here? No. None of the following is offered at all: key cutting, key copies, spare keys, car keys of any kind, transponder chips or remote fobs, and ignition work. Cars are opened when the keys are locked inside, and nothing more. ### At what point in the visit is the price settled? You describe the door and what has happened, we look at it, and the price is agreed with you before any work starts. Nothing is begun without your yes. Payment accepted: cash, card or Bizum. ### Can I speak English the whole way through? Yes, on the phone, on WhatsApp and at the door. Spanish too. No other languages are offered, so if you would rather use another, a friend on speaker works fine. ### Do you only work inside the municipality? The whole of Sant Joan d’Alacant first, from the centre to Benimagrell and the huerta partidas. Mutxamel, El Campello and Playa de San Juan next door are close enough to reach as well. ## Written for the moment something sticks - [A house from the 2000s, still on its first cylinder](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/guides/a-house-from-the-2000s-still-on-its-first-cylinder/) Almost a third of Sant Joan’s floor area went up between 2000 and 2009. Many of those front doors still have the cylinder they were hung with. Is yours due a change? - [A keypad safe in a rented flat](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/guides/a-keypad-safe-in-a-rented-flat/) The safe in a rented flat belongs to the landlord; what is inside belongs to you. What to try when the keypad will not open, who should call whom, and what proof is needed. - [A shop on the carretera de Valencia](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/guides/a-shop-on-the-carretera-de-valencia/) The N-332 through Sant Joan is a long run of shops and stores. Shutter locks, glass doors and staff keys are where things go wrong, usually at opening time. How to stay ahead of them. - [A street gate that no longer latches](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/guides/a-street-gate-that-no-longer-latches/) The metal gate in front of a townhouse sags, swells and rusts until the latch misses the keep. What you can check and adjust yourself, and when the lock itself has to change. [Every guide for Sant Joan’s doors](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/guides/) · [Ways to get in touch](https://locksmithsanjuandealicante.es/contact/) ## One number for the whole town Ring if it cannot wait; send a photo on WhatsApp if it can. Open 24 hours · 7 days [+34 678 583 290](tel:+34678583290) [WhatsApp](https://wa.me/34678583290?text=Hi%2C%20I%20need%20a%20locksmith%20in%20Sant%20Joan%20d%E2%80%99Alacant.%20Where%20I%20am%20(street%2C%20and%20the%20area%3A%20the%20town%2C%20Benimagrell%2C%20Lloixa%2C%20Salafranca%2C%20Fabraquer%E2%80%A6)%20and%20what%20has%20happened%3A)