WARNING: Never trust the appointment with this school, and never trust any words from anyone of this school without a written agreement.
My wife intended to take a road test before we move on July 22nd. We visited John's (the owner of the school) office on Jun 1st and purchased 5 times 2-hour lesson scheduled on Jun 7th, Jun 9th, Jun 12th, Jun 14th and Jun 16th. John talked to us on that day, and we perceived that he was a patient and nice guy. But we didn't realize what would happened later, which mostly made us crazy.
On Jun 7th, 10 minutes before the schedule, John sent a text message to my cell phone to inform us the lesson had to be rescheduled because of the vehicle's problem. We had to call Lisa, the lady in the office, on next Monday Jun 8th and rescheduled a on Jun 26th. I also told Lisa my wife would like to take a road test on Jun 27th. Lisa said that's okay and would let me know the progress.
On Jun 9th, the driving lesson went through well. A lady instructor named Katie completed the lesson.
On Jun 12th, at the time we scheduled, my wife called the office to make sure when instructor would pick her up. Lisa answered the phone and told my wife that she would contact the instructor and call back. Fifteen minutes later, as not receiving any call, my wife called Lisa again. And Lisa told her that because of a traffic jam, the instructor's car could not arrive on time. She asked my wife to reschedule the lesson on Jun 25th.
During that call, when my wife tried to confirm the forth scheduled lesson on Jun 14th, Lisa told her that the lesson had to be rescheduled as well because there would be road tests on Jun 14th (Sunday). Finally, that lesson was rescheduled on Jun 22nd.
Last schedled lesson was on Jun 16th. On that day, the car didn't show up on time. My wife called Lisa to make sure everything was okay. Lisa said the instructor was on her way and would pick her up in 10 minutes. Thirty minutes were passed, no car coming. When my wife called Lisa again, Lisa said that the instructor (Katie) had cancelled the lesson because Katie thought there were communication barriers between her and my wife. I felt angry and called John. We made an appointment to meet on the next day.
On next day (Jun 17th), one of our friend, my wife and I went to the office. We talked about what had happened. We had appointed 5 2-hour lessons, but only one went through well. All other fours were canceled or rescheduled for the school's reasons. Especially, only at the first time, we were informed 10 minutes before the scheduled time. Most of times, we were not informed in advance and would never know if we had not called the office. How meaningless it is to make an appointment with this school. John apologized to us and refunded us the fee for 8-hour driving lessons.
During this meeting, we got to know that the road test appointment on Jun 27th did not succeed. John told us that the road test would be postponed to July 11th, two weeks later because of the independence day's holiday. We asked him whether my wife had the priority to register a road test on July 11th because she was on the list of June 27th originally. John said yes. We also asked him when we would know the reservation results. He said usually by the Monday or Tuesday of that week. He told us that we need to pay the road test fee two weeks before the test date. Based on the good communication with John, we decided to trust him again. We purchased a two-hour driving lesson before the road test on July 9th. These decisions were proved stupid later.
On Jun 26th, two weeks before the road test on Jul 11th, we visited the office again and payed $120 fees for road test. One week later, on July 6, Mary, another lady of driving school called me and asked me to pay the road test fee. I said the fee had been paid and confirmed with her whether my wife would take road test on July 11th. She said yes. Two days later, when I called the office to confirm the next day's driving lesson, Mary answered the call and told me that the road test reservation failed and had to be postponed to July 25th, another two weeks later. What a poor school! I called John immediately and made an appointment with him on that day. My wife and I went to his office and talked to him. John apologized again, and refunded us the road test fee. We also cancelled two-hour lesson on July 9th.
Basically, this was what happened between the school and us. Although we got the money back, we wasted a lot of time and efforts. We took two months to prepare road test, but missed the opportunity to take a road test timely. So if you are going to take driving classes and lessons from this school, please keep this in mind: Never trust the appointment with this school, and never trust any words from anyone of this school without a written agreement. read more