THE grandmother of a young girl who drowned in a hotel pool in Egypt says she is trapped “in a bad dream”.

April Johnson, from Welling, lost her five-year-old granddaughter Chloe on Friday (May 17) when the youngster strayed into a wave pool at the Coral Sea Waterworld Hotel in the resort of Sharm el Sheikh.

She was pulled unconscious from the water by a holidaymaker before dad Tony, 42, tried frantically to resuscitate her while the family allege he was offered no help by hotel staff and there were no lifeguards nearby.

Mum Sarah Thompson, 32, had left the youngster by a children’s play pool for a few minutes while she and her other daughter Sadie, 15, went to fetch drinks and snacks.

Mrs Johnson, 67, told News Shopper: “It’s absolutely disgusting and I cannot ever, ever believe.

“If there were lifeguards somewhere why did not one of them lifeguards see Chloe when she went into the pool?

“Normally if there are lifeguards they will push you out of the way and do their work.

“There was nothing. They did nothing; nothing whatsoever. I’m so angry.”

News Shopper: The Coral Sea Waterworld Hotel in Sharm el Sheikh.

The Coral Sea Waterworld Hotel where Chole died. 

Mr Johnson and his partner, from Forest Hill, say they had to wait with Chloe’s body for four hours before an ambulance came just half a day into what was their first family holiday together.

April Johnson, who lives in Tryell Avenue in Welling with husband Gordon, 66, is holding on to happy memories of her granddaughter.

She said: “She was never naughty, she was just brilliant. I know everyone says it but she was.

“It feels like a bad dream. I keep seeing her out in the garden playing on the slide or the trampoline.

“She’d waited for that holiday. I’m in bits but I’m trying to console my son and partner with the fact she was the happiest, happiest child for those few hours.”

Tour operators First Choice say they are carrying out a “full and thorough investigation” into the incident.