‘It’s just horrific. It’s like a war zone’

HOLIDAYMAKER Nicola Barton, 33, from Croydon in Surrey, was halfway through her fortnight’s holiday with husband Billy, daughter Charlotte and mother Jean when the water hit.

The hairdresser and her family had paid approximately €11,000 for the Christmas break at the Paradise Island Resort in the Maldives, but she now said it looked like a “war zone.”

“It is just horrific. There are wooden sunbeds floating round the island, chairs from the restaurants and glass smashed everywhere, bulbs from the lighting.