Defensive Driving School and Driver License Testing Location

Fantastic experience: great driving school. great at telling us what to do.

Fantastic experience: Such a great program for all people. Everyone is super nice and makes sure you get to know everything that you need to know. JUST DONT MISS A DAY

Fantastic experience: Very informative and good idealology for driving

Fantastic experience: Makiah is a great instructor

Fantastic experience: Our son just finished driver's ed incl. knowledge and skills test at the Poulsbo location. We had such a great experience there. All instructors and staff were great and friendly. Whenever we had a question, they replied in a very timely manner via email or call. Scheduling lessons and tests was easy, and the different time slot offers worked great with our schedules. Big shout-out! You guys did a fantastic job, and our son had a good time. Thank you so much!

Fantastic experience: This is our 2nd time using Defensive Driving school and both daughters learned a lot. It definitely prepares them! This most recent experience Makiah mcinnis was exceptional instructor. Highly recommended.

Fantastic experience: Great instructors! I learned a lot.

Fantastic experience: Great school! Papa D is the best instructor

Fantastic experience: Fun classes. I like papa D he’s a nice guy. :)

Fantastic experience: papa d is the best instructor ever!!!

Fantastic experience: i had Mr Makiah as my instructor and he is great highly recommended this school

Fantastic experience: Makiah is the greatest instructor of all time. He is very nice and calm in all situations. Never stresses you out. He always gets his point through clearly and teaches extremely efficiently. This man deserves a raise defensive!!!

Fantastic experience: Thank you DEFENSIVE DRIVING SCHOOL team specially to the very patient and kind Mr David Hudson,Mr Makiah,and sir Dave for helping me to understand driving defensively and be a responsible driver in the future. With your teaching and guidance i now can finally have my license. i will surely recommend you to my acquaintances and friends who wish to have a license successfully. GOD bless

Fantastic experience: Excelente servicio del señor Paul

Fantastic experience: Paul Excelente servicio recomendado

Fantastic experience: Excelente servicio recomendado vengan con el señor paul

Fantastic experience: Exelente instructor paul muchos más como el

Fantastic experience: Paul una excelente persona “ recomendable “

Fantastic experience: Excelente para la comunidad latina! Pregunten por Paul, él habla español

Fantastic experience: Excelente servicio el señor Pablo muy amable

Positive experience: Drivers are calm (great for first drives!) and they do there best to make the online classes interesting.

Fantastic experience: Paul el mejor

Fantastic experience: excellent place with excellent service and staff, Mr. Paul was my instructor and he was a great help. Si hablas español es un gran lugar para realizar tu examen y prueba de manejo. El señor Paul realiza examen de escrito (en español) cada miércoles a las 6:30 pm asegúrate de llegar temprano para que asegures tu espacio y efectivo para pagar tu examen.

Fantastic experience: El instructor fue muy amable y paciente y habla español

Fantastic experience: Muy bien perfecto

Fantastic experience: This service is excellent

Fantastic experience: Excelente atención de Paul, un instructor ejemplar

Fantastic experience: Ofrecen un buen servicio y tienen gente que habla español se lo recomiendo

Fantastic experience: Really help me driveing

Fantastic experience: Very nice instructors

Fantastic experience: Me ayudó mucho hacer mi examen en español, recomiendo mucho que vengan hacer su examen aquí muy buena persona y muy amable el señor Paul.

Negative experience: This company was a waste of time. Switched to Northwest and have had a much better experience. Online instructor talked politics too much. Also, this company's snarky responses to their reviews show the horrible nature of this company and are frankly cringe

Fantastic experience: Good

Fantastic experience: It was very positive, Instructor Makiah and Bob were very nice and funny individual. Would definitely recommend others to Defensive Driving School,

Fantastic experience: Very kind people

Fantastic experience: So far so good, my new driver has learned a lot here and feels confident behind the wheel. He speaks highly of the instructors.

Fantastic experience: Overall awesome experience. I had Mr Makiah for all of my classes and drives, he’s super cool. def recommend this school.

Fantastic experience: very good experience

Negative experience: Horrible company policies. They wouldn’t allow me to change my daughter’s class before classes even started. My daughter’s grandma is sick and she might go down to California to visit her. I wanted to move to the next month just in case. They wouldn’t allow me to move to the next month. And so I asked for a refund. They wouldn’t issue a full refund either, all this before classes even started. They would only refund 50%. They are just out to get as much money as they can without descent policies for their customers. Go with another agency.

Positive experience: Very good

Fantastic experience: super nice and fun to drive with!

Fantastic experience: Office and classroom spaces are clean and welcoming. Staff are friendly and helpful. They respond promptly to questions and actually reached out to us a couple times!

Positive experience: The classes were the most helpful, and the drives were good for constructive criticism, but it's difficult to learn to drive in a car that you don't use. If you practice with a different car and then come to drive in a sedan, then turning, reversing, and parking are all different and just confusing. I recommend practicing just being in your car and knowing how big it is. Also, if you have access to anyone with a different driver license, like a truck driver, don't just interview them – practice with them as well. Spatial awareness in general is the most important thing while driving.

Fantastic experience: Great peers, classroom, and teachers/ instructors.

Fantastic experience: papa d is cool, great teaching, instructors are great. i drive well

Positive experience: Instructors were great, same goes for classroom hours. Would’ve been five starts if the instructors could’ve reminded us at the end of class who had drives that day and at what time. It could just be a lot more useful for the students.

Fantastic experience: choosing Defensive Driving School its the best and the closest

Fantastic experience: Professional and clear

Fantastic experience: This place is very cool I learned how to drive. Makiah is awesome and taught me to be an awesome driver

Fantastic experience: good driving school! doing the online version and I’ve learned a lot. Papa D is a great instructor.

Fantastic experience: bob and dave are best, drive with them

Positive experience: It’s aight

Fantastic experience: david hudson is perfect!

Fantastic experience: David Hudson is probably the best instructor out there, I have anxiety and it’s hard driving without being nervous, with David he makes it so you’re not nervous at all. He lets you know that you’re doing good and make you comfortable and confident when driving and that it’s okay to make mistakes. He’s truly the best and has made me a confident and calmer driver. He deserves the best.

Fantastic experience: Very patient and understanding instructors.

Fantastic experience: I highly highly recommend Defensive Driving School (our experience was in Poulsbo). They are all about teaching the dangers and responsibilities of driving in a very effective way. The instructors are also kind and know how to interact with teens. The school is organized and tech savvy too for scheduling. They offer online and in person. Make ups are easy to arrange. If you can put the time in I recommend signing up for in-person classes because your teen then has a ton of opportunity to practice driving to the class. They are much much better than our experience at another Poulsbo school and also stand on their own as being outstanding. Do everyone a favor and send your kids here. They and everyone else will be much safer now and for a lifetime!

Positive experience: Driving school is super fun though with some of the videos they share in the online classes makes me scared to actually get on the road and start driving. But the most enjoyable and fun part of my driving school experience is my instructor Mitch he’s a lot of fun to talk to and has the most bizarre vocal impressions which makes class much more enjoyable which pulls in my attention so much more.

Fantastic experience: DDS is an amazing program, Papa D is a very good instructor he is very organized and nice and he stays on task. Mitch is also an amazing instructor he’s is very funny and entertaining. This program is a 10/10 do reccomend!

Fantastic experience: Una gran experiencia. Muy recomendado

Fantastic experience: Mikah did amazing and so did David

Fantastic experience: There was an awesome new instructor and I was his practice student. Best drive ever!!

Fantastic experience: Defensive is by far the best driving school in the area especially instructor David Hudson who exceeds the expectations and goes above and beyond to ensure that his students are prepared and successful! I would recommend Defensive Driving school to anyone!

Fantastic experience: The instructors are so kind especially my instructor David H. He is amazing at what he does really recommend! Also the new instructor to be kye I think was his name is amazing as well.

Fantastic experience: David Hudson was the sweetest, most patient driver!

Fantastic experience: All of the instructors were incredibly kind and patient. I was in Papa D’s online class, and he was awesome. He made sure that everyone got their notes down before moving on, and was very patient and happy overall. For my driving lessons, I had Bob and David, and both were just as equally patient and uplifting as Papa D, making sure to take time on teaching me the things I had trouble with and were very encouraging. There were a lot of dad jokes too, but hey, in my opinion it just made the entire experience 100x better.

Fantastic experience: Great driving school! I recommend.

Fantastic experience: Really made things easy to understand

Fantastic experience: Excelente servicio

Fantastic experience: Pretty good service

Fantastic experience: Awful, even after i took this course, i still crashed my car

Positive experience: I am taking online classes right now, and they are amazing. Papa D was my instructor for teaching!! Their office does close a bit earlier than some of the online classes start like I start class at 6pm but the office closes at 5pm so always make sure to call before your online class. Other then that it’s been an overall great experience.

Fantastic experience: Instructors and drivers are very nice, and make the learning experience fun and engaging. Papa D is an online instructor and a super fun dude. He made me look forward to class time.

Positive experience: The vehicles all worked well, but the only instructor I liked and learned from was Dave.

Fantastic experience: i drove with David Hudson and honestly i really appreciated it. it was my fourth drive and he let me repeat any things i needed help with or was unsure how to do, he taught in a way that really let me learn how to do it myself without being nervous. if i messed up he sent a kind reminder on why i did and how to avoid it next time. 10/10 experience and there was nothing he could’ve done better

Fantastic experience: Came here to take my driver's test.Paul help me out with class,he is super professional , helpful and speaks Spanish also.Took my test and pass it.

Fantastic experience: I had a great time learning to drive at defensive! My instructors were great and really helped me do my best on the road, especially david. The class itself was also great.

Fantastic experience: Very good teachers great program !

Fantastic experience: I don’t know who I have to talk to? But Mitch deserves a huge raise! He gave me so much confidences in driving ! I felt more comfortable and relaxed while he taught me. He is the best instructor in the company. Please tell me who do I have to talk to getting this man a huge raise!

Fantastic experience: The classes can be entertaining and Papa D keeps me engaged. They put effort into the classes with videos made by the defensive driving company. All around a good driving school

Fantastic experience: All instructors are super polite.

Fantastic experience: My mom had a driving test with Paul. He is a kind instructor who made sure my mom understood what was happening, especially since Spanish is not her first language. We would recommend this instructor to anyone!

Negative experience: Extreme grifters. Will do literally ANYTHING to squeeze more money out of you. Do NOT go here. I would recommend anywhere else. Online instructor is condescending and constantly talks politics. Unprofessional. Awful place. Refuses to take any constructive criticism and only responds with condescending comments. Awful customer service. Disgusting.

Fantastic experience: Very helpful. Service is excellent. They care about teaching their students.

Fantastic experience: I always have a great time driving with David H

Fantastic experience: My instructor (Coach Mitch) made my experience enjoyable and made class a daily activity that I always looked forward to. He was an amazing teacher and I wouldn’t have wanted anyone else.

Fantastic experience: Coach Mitch was the best. I took his online course and he was extremely engaging and helpful

Fantastic experience: I love the driving instructors here! Dave and Bob are the best :)

Fantastic experience: These people really know their stuff and make you feel safe while you drive. I'm lucky to be learning from these guys

Fantastic experience: Mr Hudson is the nicest drivers Ed teacher he made learning how to drive fun I enjoyed taking drives with him not any of the other ones tho

Fantastic experience: Mitch is good instructor very helpfull

Fantastic experience: Helped me take my written and skills test. The staff was kind and helpful. Very professional. Paul and Mitch are great instructors. I recommend going to defensive.

Fantastic experience: Great man

Fantastic experience: Excelentes

Fantastic experience: I dealt with LuAnn regarding a time sensitive and complicated need. She was helpful, professional and timely in helping meet the conditions and needs of my situation. The services and instructors at Defensive Driving School in Poulsbo are punctual, professional and just good people. I highly recommend their services to anyone in need.

Negative experience: Clear Scammers ! I’ve been a driver for 10 years , not from this country so I had to take a test . Not only my instructor lied on my score ( asked me to stop instead of park , and I asked specifically to clarify if I have to park or stop) but he scored my “parking on hill” low because I haven’t turned my wheels to the right , he also marked that I haven’t looked left (which I also did ). But well nobody can check what happened and change my score after). So he’s either too old to remember or they simply trying to make money. May be both. Not recommended !

Fantastic experience: Very professional testers, and Dave in particular helped me out a whole lot after a driving skills test to make sure I knew how to improve. Came in for a second test, and his post-test feedback helped me pass the second time. :) Highly recommend.

Negative experience: Money sink hole, do not hire. Prices are both high, and do not match services to be rendered, in my opinion. If you value your time or money, read other reviews if this place, and think twice. Other driving schools do not have such poor financial policy, but since you are closest to my low income housing area, you are my only option. Thank you for putting me out a days wages over nothing, I really needed that money for my family. Edit: now that you have responded to my review in an irrelevant and derisive manner to my issue with your service, I'm sure that you feel much better about yourself.

Negative experience: The school was ok my girlfriend told me but the old guy who is testing made her parrel park had her do it between imaginary car and said she wasn't centered this is the one in poulsbo not really fare if u ask me Just saying

Fantastic experience: I took my knowledge test and skills test here after moving from another country. I had the one hour lesson followed immediately by the skills test and it was a great experience. My instructor was very accommodating and patient with me since I hadn't been out on the road in a couple of years. The whole experience was well organised and professional.

Fantastic experience: Great place to learn