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Is the lesson price for a full hour?

Many seemingly cheaper lessons last only 45 or 50 minutes! £22 for 45 minutes = £29.33 for a full hour!

You should expect to be picked up from and dropped off at your home, or any other destination within the areas that the instructor covers (such as a pick up from work or a train station and a drop off at home) and for the lesson time to begin when you get into the car and end when you get out of the car.

The 'lesson' price quoted should be for a full hour. If you are told that the lessons do last an hour and yet they seem cheaper than most of the other driving schools then you need to ask yourself why. Are the cheap lessons just an introductory deal? Any introductory offers should be clearly stated as such.

Some schools make offers such as "5 hours for just £99" but fail to make it clear that two of those hours are reserved for the driving test (in order to try to keep you with them) and after the initial three hours the price increases. If you need to ask it isn't really good enough. The terms and conditions of any offer should be made very clear from the outset.

Is the lesson duration variable?

Some instructors will only offer two hour lessons with less "dead" time for them travelling between pupils. But this may not suit your attention span, especially at the early stages. A two hour lesson is fine for the introductory because there is either a lot of explaining to do about the controls of the car or time needed to assess your current capabilities and it also gives you time to get to know how you feel about the instructor. But after that the lesson duration should be flexible to fit in with your personal needs and requirements at any point during your course of tuition.

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