Best Posts in Thread: Driving Lessons in Dumaguete

Word of warning with these solo driving instructors they require payment in advance for 10hrs lessons then often accept too many clients. They will do half the total hours paid for if your lucky then give excuses after excuses why they can't turn up to complete the lessons - and will not refund the unused portion of the payment. Best to use GlobalLinks driving school.

 

Adapt and learn.... such precious words of wisdom here.

 

I also had a very positive experience with Globalink. My other half learned with them and her instructor was extremely competent. They have both a manual Sportage and an automatic Wigo. They are not the cheapest but you usually get what you pay for!

 

Any way also the Philipines has signed the Vienna convention (8 November, 1968) on road traffic, while ratification was done on 27 December 1973, no matter how locals do interpret them unless local traffic laws do overrule the convention, the convention is the one that tells how are the rules.

 

Questions about prices have been answered by others, but my wife took driving lessons with Global Link a year ago and was very satisfied (I would give you the name of her instructor but she is asleep at present). Under my advice she took a week's course in a manual and I was amazed what she could do at the end of the week - which was to drive confidently in peak time traffic within the city. But when we looked for a car, we were always advised to use an automatic if doing much city driving and so she did a short conversion course in their automatic (they do have both). You are thinking of your wife doing a course in an automatic and I would agree with you.

Other driving schools or private instructors may be cheaper, so best to shop around. If the instructor is competent then a lower price is mostly irrelevant (in that low cost usually means low standards, but I think not so in this case).

Best of luck for your wife's adventure.

 

Safe driving in Philippines...NO WAY.....personally I think you need to have learnt outside Philippines. There is only one standard here down right DANGEROUS.