Should you Hire Professional Movers or DIY Your Dubai Move? The True Cost Analysis

Moving house is not so much a complicated business as a stressful one. It is bad enough moving from one town to another within your home country, or even from one part of a city to another. At least all you have to worry about there is the scheduling and getting your belongings from A to B in one piece.

Where it gets really complicated is if you’re moving to another country, because then you’re in legislation territory, with things you have to do and things you’re not allowed to do. Again, none of these things are rocket science, but it’s a long succession of hurdles to jump and regulations to comply with. Just a lot of things you’ve never had to deal with before.

This raises the question: should you get a professional moving firm to do it for you, or can you do it yourself? To a large extent this depends on what sort of character you are. If you’re patient, methodical and not easily upset, you can certainly do it yourself. All you’ve got to do is follow instructions, contact people and wait for them to respond.

But if you’re the kind who gets frustrated by bureaucracy, who likes an easy life and can’t understand why everyone else can’t live like that too, arranging an international move can be a nightmare.

Would Hiring Professional Movers for Your Move to Dubai be More Expensive?

Yes, it would be more expensive than doing it yourself, if you look at it purely in financial terms. But the saving on nerves and perhaps personal relationships could make it well worthwhile. To avoid becoming Mr or Mrs Angry for several months, constantly fighting your own urge to simply get it done quickly, it may be better to hand the responsibility over to people who have done this before, people who do it all the time.

Maybe it would be best to think of the price of paying someone to do this as just part of the travel cost. Flying there and sending your belongings by sea is not cheap, but it’s a cost you have to absorb. If it’s a bit more because you’re letting someone else deal with all the aggravation, so be it.

Bureaucracy and Paperwork

Wrapping things up safely and filling a container with all your worldly goods is something most people can manage, even if they are not very good at it. But making sure you’re in compliance with the Customs and Immigration people in Dubai and you’ve got the necessary permits and certifications (which you will have to pay for in some cases anyway), that’s another thing. 

Discovering too late that you needed permission for a certain item can ruin the whole experience. It might give you stories to tell for the rest of your life, but why not tell happy tales instead? You can be the one who didn’t have that stressful time but sailed through the process of relocating and landed on your feet.

If you feel you are made of the right stuff to deal with this intricate process yourself, then go ahead and show the world how it’s done. But moving internationally can be a tricky process and there are people out there who can make it easy for you like our team at Easytruck.