Konecranes have been using Dubai in mind for some time. Even though our requests have been both challenging and on short notice, we have always gotten the best service with a general briefing of the U.A.E. and schooling. This has resulted in our employees finding a home-away-from-home that have been in a good location both in regards to the distance to our office and also to a suitable school. Since these matters are important, it has made the move to the U.A.E. very smooth and the families have enjoyed living here. Due to that, we highly recommend Dubai in mind!
Niklas Brönn
Managing Director / Area Director at Konecranes Middle East FZE
We (family of four) booked a 4 hour guided tour with Johanna at the beginning of our stay in Dubai. This was the best thing we could have done!! We would never have gotten so much out of our vacation without all the information and help we got from Johanna. Whatever questions we had, she had the knowledgeable and professional answers. Johanna also helped us to book a very nice desert safari and made dinner reservations for my 50th birthday celebration. And what a dinner celebration it ended up being! The staff surprised me with singing and music and a very special birthday cake. I will never forget this evening. The whole family gained lots of confidence in Johanna and her knowledge about this country. We strongly recommend her to anyone going to Dubai.
Helene Wester
Early on, when we planned our conference in Dubai we searched for someone with local knowledge in Dubai. We fell for Dubai in Mind. In retrospect, we are happy that we chose this set up. We had three intense days in Dubai where we got to experience both the old and new Dubai with visits to both famous attractions and attractions off the beaten path. This was combined with amazing experiences such as swimming with dolphins, deep-sea fishing and helicopter rides. The study visit and the boat trip around one Palm Jumeirah - was one of many highlights. Many thanks to Dubai in Mind and Johanna for such memorable days in Dubai and a well executed program!
Once again a big thanks for three very nice days in Dubai.
Anna Hagberg
Wenell Management AB
Thousand times thank you. Everything has been 100% great and we are very happy with your services. All study tours went exactly as planned and we had very intersting experiences.
Anders Runald
CEO Byggspecialisterna
The hotel was awesome, easily the best location in town. We loved that the area never sleeps.
The Dolphins were fun.
The helicopter was amazing, a memory for life.
The Brunch was also good. Real fun to see that hotel up close.
Thank you for a great setup. I can warmly recommend you. I am super happy with you. Thanks for all your help and all the best to you!
Many hugs,
Katja with family
For she´s a jolly good fella, for she´s a jolly good fella, for she´s a jolly good fella and so say all of us….
Very professional and educated guided tours. Very good choice of restaurants and incredibly good food throughout the week. Very interesting study visits. A big thanks for a rewarding and nice week.
It was really fun to see the diamond shop and what great deals we made! The Ambassador, Max Bjur’s, presentation was very interesting.
What a city, what incredible buildings and what a great organizer you are!
A great big thanks for the tour you did for us!
Fastighetsquinnorna Syd.
We live in Norway since 1998 and decided to get married in Dubai on the 24th of October 2013, after being a couple for 26 years. We chose a serene outdoor wedding accompanied by our children out by the Swedish-Norwegian Seamen’s Church. The main reason for the success of our wedding and our stay in Dubai was the advice to use Johanna Samrud Sage and “Family in Dubai”, which we received from Fanny and Michael at the Seamen’s Church.
Michael at the Seamen’s Church inspired and helped us shape our wedding into the tailor-made and unforgettable ceremony we had dreamed of.
At the same time Johanna provided us with invaluable help organizing all the practical details prior to the wedding, she also assisted us in arranging; make-up, manicure, flower arrangements, photography, transportation and last but not least she booked us at a suitable and romantic restaurant for our wedding dinner. Also, we very much appreciated the glamorous chauffeur driven Maserati she had booked and that the driver did not take the quickest route to the beach…It was such a fantastic experience!
Johanna constantly provided us with several options that we could comment on, add or subtract things from in accordance with our desires. We felt straight away that Johanna really cared and wanted us to have the wedding day we wished for.
The day after our wedding, Johanna gave us a guided tour of Dubai.
We had, before arriving in Dubai, expectations on how our experience would be, and we can only say that it turned out to be SO much better.
A million thanks to Johanna for making our special day perfect!
To all of you who are thinking of a wedding abroad, we can recommend getting in contact with Johanna and she will help you arrange the wedding of your dreams. I hope many more get to experience what we did.
Johanna, I hope you understand how thankful we are and how much it meant to us that you made it all happen. All the prearrangements contributed to the perfect day we had!
Best regards
Susanne and Henrik Jansson, Alicia and Elina
”We got married in Dubai in March of 2013. When we started planning the wedding we encountered a few practical difficulties. That is why we were tremendously relieved when we came in contact with Johanna, who could help us make our day just as fantastic as we ever could have hoped it to be. We realized that it is extremely difficult to organize everything for a wedding by yourself in a Muslim country when you are all the way back home in Sweden. We are therefore enormously grateful that Johanna took the time out of her schedule to find out what we wished for and what we found important. We wish her all the luck in her future work and would like to recommend her as a wedding coordinator!”
// Anna and Magnus Lindholm
I, Ulf Gunnarsson, would like to mention a few things regarding our partnership with Johanna both prior to and during our business trip to Dubai in early October of 2011. Sharing positive experiences in this case is most certainly not difficult.
Bylero is a construction company in Uppland. As a company we make trips to interesting places around the world. In the early stages of organizing this year’s trip to Dubai, we realized that getting first hand assistance with planning and organizing the practical details from a person living in Dubai would be valuable. We discovered a homepage filled with lots of informative information called www.familyindubai.com, so we sent a request to familyindubai. We felt immediately from the first e-mail response we received from Johanna, that this contact person would become valuable to us.
We decided to accept Johanna’s help and in hindsight we are very happy that we did, giving her a seven on a scale of one to five! Using the scale parameter of the seven star hotel Burj Al Arab seems natural when describing our appreciation of Johanna’s effort. Johanna has, with her enormous dedication, accuracy, responsiveness and experience helped us have an unforgettable visit to Dubai.
Our busy program was carried through to the last detail!
Johanna was also present throughout our trip in Dubai, which was much appreciated by us all. Many of us took the chance to ask questions regarding life in the Middle East.
We would like to give many a praise for a well executed trip. Once again we would like to give a GREAT THANKS!!!
Ulf Gunnarsson
Construction and project manager
