Bally’s Auto Driving School

I joined Unilocal a few weeks ago for the sole reason of writing this review. Initially there was no negative review for this auto school and I was really irked that they are raking in business without a single honest review about their sleazy practice.
I also got Daisy as my driving instructor and she was consistently late, dishonest and worst of all, preoccupied with her own crap. She was using all of the lessons as «practice lessons» and not once, did she teach me how to properly drive. She would blabber on her cell phone in Spanish, arrange her schedules, and chat about how great Fairway is. Her idea of teaching me how to drive was by having me go to different towns and directing me here and there. She never explained anything, no hand over hand technique, how to adjust mirrors, how to look back, park, yeah, basically all of the necessary methods for any new driver.
In fact, she made me feel like some lost cause and kept pushing me to pay for more lessons since it was «clear that the DMV requires more than 17 hours on road». She was always an hour LATE to pick me up at my house and had me to drive miles out to some town out of nowhere just to pick up her next student. Afterwards, it would another 45 minutes for that student to drive me back to my house. All in all, a total waste of 3 hours of my day waiting on her. She has no regard for anyone’s time and when I told her that she needed to get to my house on time, she got pissed off and would say nothing in the car for the entire lesson. I obviously developed a ton of incorrect driving habits all thanks to her.
Unfortunately, she will continue scamming people since she caters to the non-​English speaking Hispanic population who believes that this is the way driving lessons are conducted. They probably have to pay over 40 lessons and they don’t come cheap in Long Island. Daisy was frequently trying to sell me «discounted’ packages after a few lessons because it «was limited time only». Because she did a wonderful job of screwing up my demanding schedule, I had to abandon the lessons in the end. If I scheduled 3 lessons in a week, a minimum of 6.5 hours would be wasted on waiting around doing nothing.

No. Just… No. I started off with Deysi, and let me say she could use a few defensive driving courses herself. She always had someone in the car with her, always on her cell phone, always showed up late, even no called no showed. Cut my lessons short because a friends kid decided THAT moment that he also wanted a lesson that day. Then to make matters worse she had the habit of grabbing the wheel and turning it after I told her I was not clear to merge/​turn. She almost made me turn into an SUV. She made me more nervous than I was when I started out. Mr. Joseph was a better instructor. I have no qualms with him personally. However cancelling the 5 hour class repeatedly for over a month, means overall, I will never recommend this school. Especially when they don’t inform you ahead of time that the class is cancelled.