A British mum-of-two has warned tourists to “keep your wits about you” after suffering a horror ordeal while holidaying in a Spanish tourist hotspot. Becca Farley, 27, was staying at Magic Tropical Splash in Benidorm with her partner, six-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter when her room was raided by thugs.

Ms Farley, from Eastleigh, Hampshire, caught the strangers entering her room on the last night of the family’s £2,500 week-long holiday. The hotel had put up signs warning of a power cut, so the mum had headed up to her room alone to charge the family’s phones. However, she was left terrified when she discovered two teenagers attempting to rob the room. 

“As I got in the lift these two teenagers got in the lift with me and just pressed my floor level,” Ms Farley recalled. “I honestly didn’t think anything of it because there’s five rooms per floor so I just assumed they were going to one of them.”

However, the two robbers exited the lift on Ms Farley’s floor and headed straight for her room.

She thought she had got off on the wrong floor and though, “what a palaver I’m going to have to wait for the lift again”, but it was the right floor. 

“It happened all quite quickly and they just strolled straight into my room.

“I then followed in after them, which in hindsight, I shouldn’t have because you hear horror stories and I think it could have gone sour.

“But I just didn’t really think and went straight into the room and shouted ‘what are you doing in my room?'”

She said one of the intruders then started screaming at her in Spanish. After yelling at them, the pair ran off, only to return minutes later and beginning to bang on the door.

Ms Farley said she stayed in her room with the door locked as the two teens continued to bang on it: “I was absolutely petrified,” she added.

“I know it sounds silly and people have said you should have done this, you should have locked them in the room, you should have decked them but at that moment I think it was just that invasion of privacy.

“This is supposed to be your safe place when you are away, you’re away from home, we don’t travel all that often so we were really shaken.

“Then that night I did not sleep because I was flinching at every noise. If it had happened earlier on in the week we would have flown home.”

Ms Farley reported the incident to hotel security after discovering that another family had experienced a similar break-in, resulting in their passports, watches and other valuables being stolen. Now, the Brit has issued a warning to other tourists who plan on visiting Spain.

“I would advise just to be alert,” she said. “A lot of people have said we were scaremongering people not to go away, not at all.

“We will certainly go on holiday again, it’s not a case of us never going abroad again but I think it’s just having that awareness that if you are a lone woman, please be careful.

“I’m very lucky that I’m OK but I think it’s just a case of having your wits about you a bit more.

“I certainly wouldn’t have cleaners in my room ever again, not to say it definitely was them but they have access to your room.

“I don’t know if I would feel comfortable going up to a room on my own again.”

She also recommended that tourists travel with padlocks so they can secure their valuables inside their suitcases.