Testimonials

Donna has been great to have as a driving instructor. Really friendly, while being an effective teacher, and adapting to your individual learning style and preferences. I passed first time.

Donna is a brilliant driving instructor. I had no previous driving experience. She helped boost my confidence and gave me great tips to stay calm. I passed first time due to Donna´s excellent teaching skills. Thank you so much.

Donna is the ideal driving instructor -- precise, persistent and patient. After moving to Cumbria from the US, I used Drive to Arrive to learn British driving culture and the rules of the UK road. Donna made me more knowledgeable, observant and disciplined...

Brilliant instructor and an overall lovely person…she got me a pass first time so I’d vouch for her any day!

Donna has been very supportive and patient whilst teaching me to drive. She has a lovely friendly manner and ensured I was ready to take my test where I passed first time. Thank you very much! Couldn´t recommend more.

Donna has been exceptionally helpful throughout the entire process of me learning to drive. Not only has her teaching itself been of a consistently high quality, she has been very flexible and accommodating in terms of organising additional lessons at...

Learning to drive with Donna was the best choice I could have made. Not only is she unbelievably patient but she made me feel incredibly safe at every single step of the journey. I trusted her completely to be brutally honest (in a nice way) and when she...

Wonderful instructor, kind, and with the patience of a saint. She had a great teaching style; she was very knowledgeable and explained everything in great detail. Thank you so much Donna! xx

Donna is amazing!!! My daughter loved her lessons. She is so organised and covers everything in so much detail. Donna made sure that my daughter felt completely ready and safe to take her test and always kept us in the loop on what she needed to practice...

Can not thank Donna enough for all of her help to pass my test and also her patience! Couldn´t of asked for a better instructor to go with, really helped boost my confidence and also helped change my negative thoughts into positives! I will forever...

Great driving instructor
Very thorough and covered much more than others, including motorway driving before test. They learnt to drive, not just learnt to pass test.

Very helpful for my driving helping me pass. Helped me get over nerves of driving and would recommend to people wanting to learn to drive.

Lovely person and great instructor! Very patient and great at teaching in a way I understood, amazing at working at my pace. More than glad I chose you as my instructor Donna! 😁😁

Thank you Donna for teaching me, and helping me get over my nerves surrounding driving, 100% will be recommending to anyone wanting to learn to drive.

A parent´s review:
I chose Drive to Arrive as Donna’s excellent reputation preceded her. I have not been disappointed. My one piece of advice is get your name on the waiting list now - she is that good - from the preliminary introduction...

Anyone in the area who´s thinking of doing lessons I couldn´t recommend Donna more. Very professional and very patient with you. Thanks again Donna.

I would recommend ‘Drive to Arrive’ to everyone. Donna has been a fantastic driving instructor. She has been professional and supportive both during my lessons and leading up to my test. The lessons have always been extremely well planned and relevant....

Really enjoyed learning to drive with Drive to arrive. Donna was very friendly and made the experience as easy and stress free as possible.

Donna was a fantastic driving instructor from start to finish, and was very calm and patient throughout the whole process. Each lesson was varied and structured to ensure that every element of driving was covered in preparation for my test. Donna’s thorough...

I would wholeheartedly recommend Drive to Arrive, Donna is a fantastic instructor, very kind, professional, patient and really helps to build your confidence and ability. Throughout my lessons, Donna was incredibly understanding of my autism and structured...