Reviews of Chico's Driving Center LLC (Driving School)

Flag Fag

Sheer hell. The class was run by a loser who's clearly only using this as an opportunity to hang out with cool high school kids. With a mixture of bullying the unpopular kids and creepily hitting on the female students, it was honestly an awful waste of time.

Nicole Tallini

The people there are very nice and there was great service!

James Richard

This place got in contact with me today and scheduled a defensive driving class for tomorrow. Very polite and helped a lot.

Just Chill Out Everyone

This is the worst, most unprofessional, most miserable place I’ve been in my life,m. Take your money somewhere else or you’re ripping yourself off!

Klimon P.

I had a very bad experience with Chico's Driving Center. As a parent and consumer I felt obligated to share it. If you decide to go with this driving school I urge you to put everything on print before you pay. Because once you pay they would not be accommodating you in any way. This is my story. I singed up my son for the 5 week driving class program. The class time was 6-8pm Monday-Wednesday for 5 weeks. I was expecting that we would be contacted at a later time to schedule the driving times. Tuesday, was the first day of the program and it happened to be my son's first day of school year as well. The owner contacted my son by text Monday the day before school starts and asked him what time school ends. My son told him that he does not have the schedule but the first day it should be 3pm. He was told he would be picked up from school at 3pm. As promised my son was picked up at 3pm, for one hour driving lesson. Then he was left at their driving school's classroom to do his "homework", till 6pm.( That is not an appropriate environment for homework). Finally he attended his 6-8pm class as scheduled. It seems that "family time" is important when it comes to Chico.( He made that very clear on one of his email. But I guess that is not the case when it comes to his students time). The very next day I contacted Chico wanting to go over my son's driving lessons schedule. We still had not had any discussion on the subject nor did we agree to any days or times. Keeping the first week's driving schedule, would cause a conflict with my son's school activities. We would need to make an adjustment on one day a week for 3 out of the 5 week program. I contacted Chico by phone trying to resolve the scheduling issue. This is the schedule Chico assigned for us, without any discussion or our consensus. On the phone he showed no interest in resolving anything and unwillingness in accommodating us, on the 3 driving hours. I offer a few suggestions but he rejected them all without any offering his own alternative. It was clear, he did not attempt to find a solution because he did not feel he had to. His whole attitude was I have your cash and this is your problem to solve. Personally I prefer to lose the money than sacrifice my son's education for his driving lessons. This is my unfortunate encounter with Chico's driving center. KP

Maria St. Germain

I completed the course just recently, I have had siblings that have attended and had great experiences. I would highly recommend this to anyone. The teaching style Paco and Chico have is great approach to teenagers. Paco and Chico made sure that if we had any problem or conflicts he would do his best to help. This course doesn’t only teach you to drive in a short amount of time but it prepares you for the dmv test and for any possible thing that could happen on the road. I not only learned how to drive but I also got a bunch of new friends from it. Chico’s driving center was great!

Christopher Charles

very professional and informative! competitive pricing and hands down the best school for your new driver!

Gregg Chouinard

DON'T SEND YOUR KIDS TO THIS SCHOOL! We used this driving school for my daughter. She completed the course but she did say that the driving instructor was a little strange much like another reviewer posted. Last December when it was time to send my son to drivers education my wife called Chico directly and he said to just drop off a check at the school and he would fit him in the February class. We did just that and thought everything was all set until we brought our son to the first class in February. ( three months after dropping our deposit off) We were informed on the first night of class that he was not enrolled in the class that was now full due to missing paperwork? Needless to say I was upset that no one had contacted us in the three months since we dropped off our deposit about this paperwork issue and my son was heartbroken. We were told that the next opening for a class was in May. We filled out the required paperwork and reserved a spot in the class. Unfortunately our son could not attend this class because of conflicts with high school lacrosse. When we called the school to try to move him into the June class we were told that it was full and the next available class was September. We decided to just get our deposit back and look around for another school. We were told by Chico's good luck and every other driving school would be filled up until after the summer. ( We immediately found another school) We were told we needed to write a letter asking for our deposit back (more paperwork) and then waited a month to receive a check. Chico's kept $100 of our deposit! The refund policy in Chico's "paperwork" says the fee will be charged unless you register into a later course... which we did! I called Chico directly and he has outright refused to refund our entire deposit. I hope that this review will deter parents from sending their children to such a unprofessional driving school!