Golf Bonalba is an 18-hole course in Mutxamel, a couple of kilometres from San Juan beach, designed by Ramón Espinosa, with five lakes that come into play on ten holes and 96 bunkers. It is open all year, from eight in the morning to eight in the evening. And like every golf car park, it sees the same small disaster now and again: the boot comes down, and the keys are in the bag, in a jacket, or in the boot itself.
Try these first
- Every door, and the boot release. Walk round the car and try each handle. Some cars leave one door unlocked when the boot is shut.
- Is anyone at home with the spare? If the other key is ten minutes away, that is still the cheapest answer, even if it costs you the first hole.
- The app. Some cars can be unlocked from the manufacturer’s phone app, if you set it up when you bought the car.
Do not do these
- No coat hangers. Pushing wire past the window rubber tears the seal and scores the glass, and on a modern car it rarely reaches anything useful.
- No broken windows, unless a person or an animal is shut inside. Then ring 112 at once.
- Do not keep pressing the remote of any other key you have: some cars lock themselves again.
When you call
Say where you are, the Bonalba car park, and the make, model and year of the car. Have your ID; the registration papers will be checked once the door is open, because they are usually in the glovebox. The course is reached from the AP-7 at exit 67 towards Xixona, then the N-340 and the road between Busot and Bonalba, which is worth repeating to anyone coming out to you.
The door is opened through the seal with padded tools, and the keys are back in your hand. If the house keys are on the same ring and your house is out in a partida rather than on the estate, how to describe where you live is worth a minute. Every place covered is on the areas page, and if the keys are not in the car at all but on an office desk, read this instead.