Sur La Table Cooking Class

I was beyond excited to sign up for the french macaron making class. I am much less excited having completed it today.
For $ 69 and a course website stating «You will enjoy a generous taste of every dish» I expected to leave with a good amount of assorted macaron favor combinations. Our instructor was loud and helpful, but with 4 people per stand mixer not a whole lot of hands on was happening.
Issues:
No directions for how to get into the closed mall on Sunday morning before the mall was open … store doors also not open, not exactly inviting. Why not start class at 11AM instead?
No good temperature control of the room … pretty key for macarons.
Only one oven was working, so ½ the macarons were not cooked properly.
A taste of two flavors of macarons (one cookie per person) and each left with 5 cookies, so 7 cookies total per person. Five cookies to go home with. Three hours. $ 69. Five cookies.

Just completed the chocolate cooking class. I cannot recommend this class. I was a waste of money. Two of three dishes the chef burned. The caramels came out looking like slop. The class was such chaos that I cannot even tell you what went in to the recipes.