Is there an equivalent phrase for "(enjoyed it) as much as we did"?


When sending a thank you message to a friend that showed me and my family
around in her country, I wrote something along the lines of

> We had as much fun as we did thanks to you.

Later when I was trying to put that into Japanese, the closest I could get was

> （わたしたちは）あれほど楽しめたのは○○さんのおかげです。

which I think gets the point across, but I don't think I've heard a native
speaker say anything like that and I don't want to be speaking English even
though the words are Japanese.

What would be a more natural expression for this situation?

Is a phrase that more literally means "as much as we did" simply not used?




You are right that a native may not put it in that way, but if you want to be
sincere, better at least not to make your friend think that you just copy-
pasted what a native would say.

It may be more about culture than language, that a Japanese may more likely
focus on expressing gratitude for what the host did, rather than on how he/she
felt about what the host did. So, simply 本当にお世話になりました. But, saying that would
just seem like a generic copy-paste, so, I think yours probably works better,
or write e.g. starting with the above "copy-paste" and add [might be better to
address his/her family name] "Xさんのおかげですごく楽しかったです。" [Or, depending on your +
your host's age, possibly replace "すごく" by "とても"]

