Excel Driving Academy

The owner Skip was very accommodating, and Farooq the Class 4 license trainer was extremely helpful in the one hour I spent with him, providing me insights/​information/​guidance immediately before I re-​did my Class 4 Unrestricted test. (I had failed the road test part a month earlier using another driving school’s vehicle.)
I spent some of that hour familiarizing myself with their passenger van and then about 20 minutes driving it around the road test route area with Farooq before we arrived at the PoCo ICBC, which is conveniently only about five minutes from the school. (Skip operates the business from his home, but don’t let that influence your decision about whether to use their services – they’ve got a fleet of nice vehicles.) I had failed the road test a month earlier, in part because I didn’t prepare adequately for the driving part of the test (I did pass the pre-​trip inspection part, though) and in part because the van I used from the other school was a bit of a beater with a totally inadequate defrost that wouldn’t defog the windows, which proved to be a significant distraction because it poured cats and dogs that day. Skip’s van, on the other hand, is almost brand new and feels/​performs like a charm. Even though it is longer than the other school’s, it felt like I was driving a car, not a beast. That allowed me to concentrate entirely on the skills and I passed with flying colours.

Great driving school
Great instructors