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As an ex instructor I'd say they're generally pretty good. Doing an hour or so at a time wastes a lot of lesson time getting back into the swing of things. A full week of stuff can be quite intense though, if you've got the time then I reckon do it kinda semi intensive, about 4 hours a day, stop in the middle of that and have a ten or fifteen minute chill out, maybe a couple of 5 minute breaks around the other hour marks as there's a lot of concentration needed and you'll make better progress after a few minutes out of the car. Knowing how to ride a bike around gives you a big advantage in regards to knowing how roads works and predicting traffic, main bits to learn are how a car works and making your observations and checking mirrors at the right time, can practice that on the bike too for free, ride around, pretend you're in your sick whip, and think about which mirrors you'll be checking approaching lights and junctions and when, and do a little look towards them, mainly up and left often, with a look left or right thrown in when turning or changing lane, normal turning your head to look around fits in with that pretty well. You'll probably be looking at about 30 hours of in car instruction as an average minimum.
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Anyone done the intensive one week driving lessons thing? Recommendations? Since I'm not going to be going anywhere this holiday, I was thinking of using my time off to do that instead. Ideally it would then make taking smaller trips in the future simpler.