Driving Schools

Unreliable and unprofessional

Advantages: Patient
Disadvantages: hard to get a hold of and bad time keeping

I've had been getting lessons from john for about 3 months. In that time, I should of had at least 12 lessons but I've only have 6. YOU CAN'T EVER GET IN TOUCH WITH HIM. I dont want to completely bad mouth john, because at times he can be good, but he often doesnt return your calls and always changes lesson times at the last minute which is really irritating. I had my last lesson with him about 2 weeks ago and I told him he wasn't reliable enough ...
...bother him at all so i dont think he really cares about whether he gets your business or not. Ive now gone with RED. they are a little more expensive but my new teacher is really good and I can always get a hold of him when I need to. ...

bettyboop101 04.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of JNR School of Motoring, London

1st Time Got Me Through My Test

Advantages: cheapest around & good instructors. not money grabbers!
Disadvantages: busy sundays

...in Dartford. They do the 1st 4 for £60 which is good and you get a full hour lesson, as opposed to the 50 minutes I was getting before. I learnt more in one lesson than I did the 18 I had with the other schools. My instructor seemed a genuine sort of bloke who was keen to get me through my test as opposed to just taking my money every week. Can't believe how different the quality of the teaching was. It just seemed to click. The only downside was ...

AAHun 05.12.2007 · Read full review
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Review of 1st Time School of Motoring, Plumstead

Get your driving license with BSM!

Advantages: 10 driving lessons for £220 + 1st lesson for free! Professional tuition & no time wasting!
Disadvantages: Every Driving Instructor will want to get MORE £££ out of you no matter what Motoring Company you use

I though it would be better if I pass my theory test before taking any driving lessons. Once have I passed the theory test, I started looking for cheapest driving lessons in East London area. I found one Level 6 private driving instructor with more than 20 years of driving experience. He charged £170 for 10 lessons. I thought - it will save me lots of money and I won't have to take more than 15 lessons as I am very quick learner. - Yeah right!!! ...
...roads sometimes turning into the roads. The problem was that my driving instructor wanted to get as much £££ out of me as possible. Not only he would not teach me any monouvers, he would not let me do anything appart from driving stright trying to brainwash me that I am not ready for anything else yet! The most annoying thing was that he would have 10-15min loo stops during my driving lessons and he would finish my lessons prior the time in order ...

yours_ilze 15.10.2006 · Read full review
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Review of BSM, London

Chris Piper, Driving Instructor for Eastbourne - absolutely ace!

Advantages: Punctual, vastly experienced, friendly & highly skilled.
Disadvantages: Absolutely none.

...difference a great instructor makes! Chris Piper is deserving of his Level 6 status - the highest grade awarded by the Driving Standards Agency to Instructors. I believe Chris is the only Level 6 in Eastbourne. I felt sure, if I was going to drive at all, I would be condemned to an automatic car. No way - with the amazing teaching skills of Chris I am thoroughly enjoying lessons using a manual gearbox - I now have seven lessons under my belt and ...
...Chris is immensely busy (of course he is, with his expertise!), doesn't advertise and certainly doesn't maintain any website. So I manage to get, roughly, just one lesson every six days. But they are brilliant lessons. If you want the very, very best of training then do see if he can fit you in. You will absolutely not regret it. ...

stevebabes 24.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Chris Piper, East Sussex

BSM Instructor Fulham

Advantages: not sure
Disadvantages: at least one of the instructors uses a mobile phone while driving

Last Friday about 9am I was nearly hit by a potentially off duty BSM Driving Instructor using his mobile phone while driving. It was along by Fulham Broadway, he had wavy dirty blonde shortish hair. He had the phone he was using either to dial or text with at the bottom of his steering wheel so it could not obviously be seen by another car driver. This meant that he was looking down. He probably didn't notice me which is unsurprising and I didn't ...

ducatibird1 05.03.2007 · Read full review
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Review of BSM, London