Lessons
From the first two hours to the motorway after you pass, every lesson is from your door with the instructor for your area, priced by the hour or the block with nothing added. Each page says what happens, what it costs and how long it usually takes, honestly.
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Never driven before, or a few lessons years ago: an introductory two-hour lesson for £60, then a plan written against the DVSA syllabus, two-hour lessons from your door with the same instructor and the same car, the app to track it, and a test booked when you are ready and not before.
£60 for the introductory two hours, then £38 an hour or £34 to £36 in a block.
02
Four hours a day with one instructor, Monday to Friday, for one or two weeks, with the practical test booked at the end before the course begins. For people with a deadline, people who have driven before, or people who learn best by immersion. Dates and spaces on the intensive page.
20 hours over one week £760; 30 hours over two weeks £1,110; 40 hours over two weeks £1,440.
03
Learning in an automatic at the same hourly and block prices as manual, with Amara in the west and Raj in the south and the bay. No clutch, no stalling, usually fewer hours, and a licence that covers automatics and the electric cars most people will be driving in ten years.
The same as manual: £38 an hour or £34 to £36 in a block, £60 for the introductory two hours.
04
For licence holders: a two-hour refresher after years away from driving, a motorway lesson after passing (the M4 at Cardiff is not where you want to learn alone), parking and manoeuvres, driving in the city after moving here, or confidence after a bump. No syllabus, just the thing you asked for.
£76 for two hours, at the block rate if you book more.
05
Help with the theory test from the first lesson: the guide on this website, the app with the DVSA question bank and hazard perception clips, your instructor checking your scores, and, before the practical is booked, a 40-minute mock test with a different instructor marked on the examiner's sheet.
Theory help is included in lessons.
06
The test itself, explained: the car hire and the hour before for £95, which test centre and why, what the examiner does and does not do, the sat-nav section and the "show me, tell me" questions, the fifteen-minute debrief if it goes wrong, and Pass Plus and the motorway if it goes right.
£95 for the hour before and the car for the test.
DVSA approved
Every instructor here is a fully qualified Approved Driving Instructor on the DVSA register, with a green badge in the windscreen. A pink badge means a trainee who has passed two of the three qualifying tests and is allowed to charge for lessons while training; some schools use them without saying so, and it is worth asking. All four of ours are green badges, graded A or B at their last DVSA standards check (the DVSA sits in on a lesson every four years and marks it), DBS checked, and insured for you to drive their car. The registration numbers are on the instructors page and in the cars.
The controls on a quiet road, moving off and stopping, and enough driving to see how you take to it, with the instructor who covers your area. At the end you get a written plan and an honest estimate of the hours. Book with the form or ring the office, Monday to Saturday 8 to 7.
