How much driving lessons cost these days?

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DD is 17 in the summer and wants driving lessons as her present. How much is the norm?

Wow! DD has had 2 lessons this week & all the instructors were quoting £40ph Hampshire/Surrey border. Only drops to £38 if block booking 10 hours. So expensive compared to other areas.

@needadvice54321 Also it's pretty likely that your ds will need a black box for insurance, they have an app that you have to have which tracks your driving and gives a score out of 100. The only insurers we found that didn't insist on a black box wanted over £3000

We used compare the market and went with the one that included breakdown cover and didn't have a ridiculous excess.

I'm on Hampshire/Surrey border and pay £40 for a 90 minute lesson.

DS actually started lessons in November 2019 but all the lockdown and disruption has been a nightmare and of course you constantly have more kids turning 17 and wanting lessons. I think some instructors are better than others at turning away pupils they don't really have time to fit in. My son's instructor has now said no more new pupils until August so he's got time to get some of his existing pupils through.

At least the new ones don't have the stress of a passed theory test which is gradually counting down and won't be extended.

I think there are people who've had their tests cancelled about 7 times!

www.wearemarmalade.co.uk/learner-driver-insurance

This is what we used when DD was learning to drive on my car £1.23 / day .... so cheap - didn’t need a black box for learning only after she passed I was surprised that insurance once she passed was so expensive.

We paid £28 for blocks of 10 - she mostly did double lessons and we are also Home Counties. This was 2 years ago but I expect the supply / demand shift of the back up due to COVID has allowed some to hike their prices.

Has anyone come across week long intensive courses - I have another 3 to get through and can’t imagine teaching my sons especially.

@Sssloou

www.wearemarmalade.co.uk/learner-driver-insurance

This is what we used when DD was learning to drive on my car £1.23 / day .... so cheap - didn’t need a black box for learning only after she passed I was surprised that insurance once she passed was so expensive.

We paid £28 for blocks of 10 - she mostly did double lessons and we are also Home Counties. This was 2 years ago but I expect the supply / demand shift of the back up due to COVID has allowed some to hike their prices.

Has anyone come across week long intensive courses - I have another 3 to get through and can’t imagine teaching my sons especially.

Sorry I wasn't clear, I did mean that they would need a black box once passed.

Also agree that some instructors take on far too many pupils, ds has friends who are older than him who could barely get a lesson every other week last summer, because the instructors just didn't have the time to fit them in.

Crikey! my eyes are watering reading these prices. I took a few lessons in 1981 and paid £2.00 an hour.