Mike Del Grosso

Negative experience: Initially, I was not going to leave a review as I felt it would probably be unfair after not even completing a full lesson. However, part of the reason I contacted Mike was because of his many positive reviews, so I feel I should share the bad experience I had with him. I have had three other prior instructors who I had to change for various reasons, and obviously all provided me with feedback and pointed out my mistakes as I was driving, and I did not have an issue with it. I found the way Mike spoke to me while driving very condescending, and after probably not even half an hour into the lesson, he seemed to be becoming impatient and frustrated with me. I started to feel nervous to even do anything out of fear I would get something wrong. He gives me the impression he is not at all open to any criticism about the way he teaches, commenting that if I don't want to be told what I'm doing wrong then I should just get an instructor that doesn't teach me. He made me feel like the problem was with me and told me that I am oversensitive. But now after looking into it more I can see that there are other people who've had lessons with him and feel similarly. Edit: very unprofessional response from you. Resorting to personal attacks and baseless speculation after I left a bad review is beyond pathetic. My previous instructors did not "make up excuses to stop seeing me". With my first instructor I started when I was unemployed and then got a job after starting, so my schedule and availability changed. The second one had to stop because the amount of roadworks in town at the time made it not feasible for her because of how long it would take her to travel to see me. And my most recent one had an injury while on holiday and so is not able to teach at all. I said to you that I had my test in March but that I did not feel ready and would most likely end up pushing it back. When we pulled over, I felt overwhelmed and at first I said I was okay because I felt embarrassed about the fact I was getting upset and was trying my best not to. But after we switched over I admitted to you that it was the way you were speaking to me. "Controlling behaviour" this is a genuinely laughable accusation. How is an involuntary response controlling behaviour? And to what end? What do you I think I was trying to control you to do exactly? The reality is that you are charging people money for a service, and if I have an unpleasant experience and feel that your teaching style contributed to that, then I have every right to leave a review saying that so people can make up their own mind about it. And after reading some of your reviews, I can see that there are others who share this sentiment and have a substantial amount of likes. If you feel that your teaching style works for most people and thus don't feel there is an issue, then that is fair enough, but it is perfectly reasonable for me to leave a review informing other people about it.

Fantastic experience: A great instructor, very friendly and explains everything clearly.

Fantastic experience: After roughly 22 lessons (1hour30) with Mike and practice in my own car outside of lessons, I passed my test first time with no minors.

Fantastic experience: Mike is a very patient and friendly driving instructor, I struggled with driving for a long time but with Mike's help I passed last week. I work full time in a fairly high pressured role and Mike was very flexible and understanding with lesson timing as well so can definitely recommend if you work full time.

Fantastic experience: Mike was a brilliant instructor with clear and logical feedback that helped me pass my test first time. Methods used were very effective, he was very patient and created a positive and relaxed learning environment