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Do you happen to remember roughly how far the aerodrome was from the town and/or the River Nile?
I can't say, but I do remember that the "hotel" was a boat on the Nile. The BOAC flying boat service certainly came that way then (I'm still miffed that father was too mean to use it!) and the use of a boat as an hotel seems to tie in.
Someone must have a pre-Lake-Nasser map with it all properly marked.