A+ Driving School

Negative experience: Poorly planned behind the wheel pick up resulted in a missed appointment AND had the nerve to charge for appointment reschedule. Communication said - Lakeville South High School pickup. No door information. Daughter at bottom door, driver at top door. Driver calls and says come to top level then proceeds to call text by the minute when my daughter cannot receive calls or texts in the school. She checks middle level and top level only to find the driver had left. Left my daughter at school without a ride home and required me to leave work to pick her up! Additionally, left mean voicemail on my wife's phone who was in appointments cleaning teeth while this all played out. Solution - Dictate a standard parking spot, communicate clearly, and show patience for paying students who want their licenses. Avoid this organization if you can at all help it.

Negative experience: I mistakenly did drivers ed and BTW here, my driving instructors did not tell be about a rule where you have to be close to the curb on a right turn. Failed my first test. Finally got my license today though. Scheduling was also rough.

Negative experience: I have had 3 boys go through A+ for their classes and Behind the Wheel, 2 of them went well. 3rd child set up an appointment for 10/17/24 10:00 am home pickup. This was his 1st BTW, received a call late evening that the appointment was being canceled and needed to reschedule, so rescheduled for 10/21 immediately after school at 2:45 pm. I asked school to let him out 10 minutes early for this day to ensure he was out when they showed up and would not be late. I got a message from my son at 3:05 pm asking if they were at our home to pick him up as they never showed to the school, which they were not at our home. I called the number for A+ and someone called back within minutes, stating that they had sent both myself and my son's phone a text the morning of 10/21/2024, which they hadn't sent either of us a message to cancel. We even got the reminder message at 11:16 am 10/21/2024 confirming his appointment for the afternoon. He again tried to tell me they sent us message, I again advised neither got a message, why would my son be waiting outside the school for someone from A+ and miss his bus if we had been notified. Stated how pathetic it is that they had pulled this now 2 times and within just days of each other. Had to scurry to find someone to pick him up to get him home, since they failed on their end. This has really changed my view of A+ Driving School, as they are not reliable and left my child stranded at the school and then tried to continue to make false claims that they sent a text when they did not. Also a more effective way to ensure that the party gets the notice of cancelation it shouldn't just be a text, it should definitely be a phone call to speak to someone.

Negative experience: I took this class over 6 years ago and still remember how horrible it was. Middle of winter, below 0, and the heat was broken for the entirely of the course. The instructors teaching skills were very weak.

Negative experience: They are impossible to get a hold off and schedule BTW.

Negative experience: Disclosure, I have not been directly taught, nor have my kids been taught by anyone at the school. However, based on the driving that I saw one of the instructors perform this afternoon—cutting me off, turning without their right of way, erratically veering across center and shoulder lines, I wouldn’t expect that students of this school would learn how to be very capable, or effective drivers. Drive by example.

Negative experience: Classroom: Simley Inver Grove Heights. The teacher Ann Flood was HORRIBLE! She was late EVERY SINGLE DAY, the 1st day my daughter thought she was a Substitute because she was late and acted like she didnt know what to do. She only read from the slideshow, anybody can do that for the amount of money i spent on this class is ridiculous. Let me go on, she has us parents drop the kids off at another school to find out she was wrong and had to go back to Simley! We WORK how was my child supposed to get back to Simley? Thankfully she found a ride from a classmate. I heard the other kids were pretty upset,wonder why, they were stuck there! To top it off the last day shes over half hour late! Another person on this review page said the same thing the teachers end a whole hour to half hour early. My daughter said she did NOT learn anything from the teacher and just taught herself. I paid over $300 for my child to teach herself. The “Validity” is the teacher signed her name of each card as Ann Flood so……

Negative experience: Impossible to get ahold of anyone and once I finally did they were extremely rude. They used their horrible ability to answer their phones to cheat me out of my daughters behind the wheel lessons that I had paid for.

Fantastic experience: I would recommend this driving school to everyone. They did an awesome job with my son. They are very courteous and they strengthened my sons knowledge of driving and his road skills. Thanks to everyone there.

Positive experience: i just had my 2nd behind the wheel and i had Amanda, she was amazing! she was so nice and made conversation with me and taught me how to parallel park perfectly.

Fantastic experience: Super friendly, always accommodating, & great communication! Thank you!!

Negative experience: Did not show for my son's appointment, no call. Does not return calls.

Negative experience: I have paid for services up front for all 3 sessions. This company for a while had no availability to schedule anything. Now there is end of November and we are not able to schedule more than one time. I have called with no response, email is slightly responsive. Go outside sources if you have someone who needs to get their driving instruction done.

Negative experience: Terrible. Drivers would randomly cancel appointments, though actual class was quite nice. Calling was awful, they were confusing and rude.

Negative experience: I literally swear they hire people who have no social skills. It also looks very homeless inside like squatters be living in there.

Positive experience: everything depends on your teacher I strongly recommend trying to find who your’s will be and attempting to be with Dan, Renee is quite literally the worst you can think of.

Negative experience: The teacher my son had was very rude and disrespectful towards me. He raised his voice and yelled at me for walking into the business to pick up my sons blue card. I felt very threatened by him. This is after I talked to the main office and they told me what time I should stop in. Many days during online classroom instruction he was done teaching an hour early. Would inform students to stay logged in until a certain time and then they could log out. With the virtual classroom there was no way for my son to ask questions. If I had to do it all over again I would not choose this company. Not worth the price you pay for classroom instruction. Their website is not easy to navigate at all or register for classes.

Fantastic experience: We learned that my son's previous driving school had permanently closed. A+ was VERY helpful getting his 3 behind the wheel classes scheduled in a short period of time before his scheduled driving test. Can't thank them enough! Several other driving schools wouldn't take outside students or had waits of 3+ months. The instructors were all polite and professional. Good communication.

Fantastic experience: Surprised to see complaints about getting in, although that looks like it was during the throws of the pandemic. I was able to schedule easily and timely. Had friends that went with other schools and it took . months to schedule I was able to get in within a couple of weeks for each of my lessons. Could not recommend this company more. Dan the Man is the best!

Negative experience: Extremely rude customer service

Fantastic experience: Recommend Theresa, she’s amazing

Fantastic experience: Thank you Dan for getting my sons 3rd behind the wheel taken care of during all of this COVID stress. The only complaint I have is the lady that answers the phone and emails is a total A Hole that NEEDS to be fired. Other than that we have been happy with A+ driving school with both of our kids. KUDOS Dan.

Negative experience: Website regularly crashes. Behind the wheel appointments are currently 3 months out at some locations and none available for the next 12 months at other locations. May be tough to schedule 3 BTW appointments in the next year.

Fantastic experience: The online class during COVID-19 has been easy to access and wonderfully taught. This was a great opportunity for my daughter who is otherwise super busy with dance.

Positive experience: I’m quite jealous of the people who‘re talking about this “Dan” guy in the reviews. I didn’t have dan, can’t remember my instructors name, but the class was pretty boring. Honestly, the enthusiasm and engagement of your instructor seems like it can make or break the experience- make sure you get a good one! Otherwise, I obtained the material well and learned a bunch regarding driving safely.

Fantastic experience: I couldn’t think of a better teacher to teach this class

Positive experience: The class was pretty boring but very helpful. It helps to have a fun teacher that tells you story’s and makes it fun (Dan).

Fantastic experience: This school is great, I learned tons. I think I’ve gotten more out of this school than I would at most other driving schools. Dan’s great.

Fantastic experience: Dan is a really good teacher, and the class wasn’t super boring.

Fantastic experience: Dan made drivers ed fun and was great at teaching the road rules. I liked dan

Fantastic experience: dan is a good teacher and keeps us engaged

Fantastic experience: The class taught me everything I needed to know to get my permit! Dan was a great teacher.

Fantastic experience: Dan was super cool and really helped me learn by connecting topics to real life experiences.

Fantastic experience: Dan explained everything really well and gave good stories.

Fantastic experience: Dan is the best teacher. Also great class.

Fantastic experience: Dan is one of the best teachers

Negative experience: We had called A+ to ask some questions regarding my upcoming road test. The lady at the office said that backup cameras are not allowed on the test. We had also asked if I could adjust my parking Incase I was going to hit the cones. She said it depended on the instructor. We had called up to the DMV to ask about the backup camera to confirm what A+ had said. The lady read it right out of the drivers manual that backup cameras are allowed on the test as long as you use other forms of observation. During my road test a few days ago, I asked my examiner if I could adjust my parking and he told me he would highly recommend it and that he didn’t know where the rumor started that you can’t adjust, because they (the DMV) never said that. I was also able to use the backup camera. For those wondering, if you need to adjust, your instructor may deduct points (mine did), however I did everything else perfect and passed my first try. Not to mention A+ cancelled 2 of my behind the wheel lessons, one of them 10 minutes before my scheduled appointment. The instructors teach parking differently so you could have one instructor teach you one way and then another one might teach you another, which may confuse some students. I’m giving 2 stars because I learned some things, but they should have more knowledge of what the rules are for the road test, and if they are unsure of the laws, they should call the state so they can give students the correct information.

Fantastic experience: Great teachers, they really helped me succeed and still have fun and now I have full confidence in myself to pass the knowledge test.

Fantastic experience: DAN IS THE MAN.... other than cheating at kahoots

Fantastic experience: Dan is the almighty kahoot God do not challenge him and if you do hope he gets one wrong. You only have a chance when he gives you the answers.

Fantastic experience: kinda boring but all drivers ed is. lots of good lessons and i feel confident about passing my test.

Fantastic experience: Dan is the best instructor. He feeds us snacks.

Fantastic experience: Class was pretty fun but Dan was great. Would recommend.

Fantastic experience: Great teachers #Dan is the man

Fantastic experience: Dan is the man

Fantastic experience: The school is educational and will make driving easier. Dan was a great teacher too.

Fantastic experience: great class, really helped me lots of cool teachers

Positive experience: Dan was the best teacher ever

Fantastic experience: This was a long class but if u got dan bro it was low key awesome.

Fantastic experience: dan was a great teacher who made it a lot less boring than it could have been also he brought us food

Positive experience: Dan was a good teacher, the class was boring but the food made it better.

Fantastic experience: Dan was the best teacher and the only reason I passed

Positive experience: the first week was okay but the second week is pointless and boring and there is no point of it. the tests are worded very poorly too

Positive experience: I think the teacher was super funny and really nice! But the class was long and boring.

Fantastic experience: Excellent driving school.

Fantastic experience: dan is the best

Positive experience: the questions and test answers are worded terribly. learned a lot though

Positive experience: It was good, specially the last day. So chill.

Fantastic experience: super good driving school highly recommend

Negative experience: Dan should have a monument what a sexy man of a man

Positive experience: The class is informative and good, but the website to schedule lessons is always down and I called to schedule a lesson and the lady who picked up was very rude and told me to wait for the website to work again..

Fantastic experience: The course was easy to follow along and well presented. The teacher Dan was great

Fantastic experience: “Dan is the man” -2019

Fantastic experience: It was a fun class with dan but in also it taught me a lot and I learned a lot of great things

Positive experience: Seems to be night and day experience. Go during the day not at night. Night class instructor didn't even show up sometimes. Got our money back and went to 1st in Burnsville. That worked well. 3pm seems like it works fine for people we know. That was not an option for us. Gave them another try. Went in afternoon with our second son. All was well. Moved up from 1 star to 4. Leaky roof was the only issue we had the second go round. Instructer likes Karate Kid movie and not a fan of kids on cell phones...which sounds alright by me.

Negative experience: The course itself wasnt terrible, but I have been trying to schedule behind the wheel lessons and they have messed up 3 times now. From not even putting me on the schedule, to sending the driver to the wrong house, they also have given me the wrong time for when the lesson was supposed to take place. This has me quite upset because I only have a few more months until my permit expires and I have been trying to get my license for the past year.

Positive experience: The teacher made the class somewhat entertaining, the slideshows were informative... but even the somewhat entertaining teacher couldn’t save the boring presentation, making it easy for a student’s mind to wander.

Fantastic experience: It was a W.

Fantastic experience: Dan made drivers ed not boring. He prepares you so you can pass your drivers test with ease, but also gives you breaks :)

Negative experience: My Teen took the required 3 lessons from this place and they never showed him how to parallel park nor 90 degree back parking. When I called them to see if I can book a lesson for parking only they said they don't teach parking they only teach people how to drive. Parking is up to the parents to teach them. Unbelievable!!!! They couldn't even recommend a place that's set up with cones for parking practice. Also one of the lessons got cancelled last minute because the tire blew up on the way to our house. Just imagine if that would have happened while my teen was driving. On the 3rd lesson they returned 30min early I guess it had too much snow on the roads and they were not plowed yet and the guy came with a front wheel drive car on a day full of ice and snow

Fantastic experience: Dan is the most perfect human being in the whole world and is the reason I’ll be a safe driver and can’t thank him enough you need to give this man a raise and make him the boss he deserves it

Fantastic experience: Dan made drivers ed extremely enjoyable, he is really fun!

Fantastic experience: I love the school and the instructor! I feel horrible for him because all of the students were disrespectful and nasty to him, but he was a great teacher

Fantastic experience: Dan made class fun and easy and I liked that we had breaks and he told good stories

Fantastic experience: Dan was good cause he brought us food. We learned some stuff but I mostly like food. Food is good. We like Dan

Fantastic experience: Dan Leach is a good teacher, good stories and made good relations to everything. Made the class fun! Well presented

Fantastic experience: i learned a lot. dan is the best

Fantastic experience: Fire truck dan is the best instructor that you could get yeah dan your the man let’s go drivers ed

Fantastic experience: I LOVE DAN HES FUNNY AND I KNOW WHAT IM DOING!!!

Fantastic experience: Dan is the MAN

Fantastic experience: i loved dan he was the best! class was fun and we got treats!

Fantastic experience: Daniel is great man.

Positive experience: Pretty good

Fantastic experience: Thank you so much dan! I learned so much

Fantastic experience: i loved it and learned so much!

Fantastic experience: I think the slides and and the presentation was very well done and Dan told good life stories.

Fantastic experience: This is a great class and I would recommend taking this class I hope you have Dan best of wishes

Fantastic experience: The class may have been agonizingly long and boring, but defenetly worth driving for.

Fantastic experience: Dan is the Man. it was kind of boring for some parts but i think the teaching was good and i learned a lot.

Fantastic experience: teaching was good and everything needed to know was taught to us.

Positive experience: Not bad. Dan is the man!

Fantastic experience: DAN IS THE BEST!!!!!! HE MADE CLASS LIT AND ENJOYABLE

Positive experience: Upgrade servers we killed it with 30 people

Fantastic experience: Great class! Definitely take it to pass your permit test with ease

Fantastic experience: Dan gang rise up

Negative experience: My story with A+ driving school starts in March 2018.I signed my mother up for driving classes. She had only taken two of the six classes that I’d paid for. To book the classes was nearly impossible as they made the communication process extremely difficult. After trying multiple times to book the classes and multiple failed attempts due to the A+ driving staff I tried to receive my money back. The A+ driving staff refused to give me my full amount that I had paid. I do not recommend anyone to sign up for driving classes through with this school.

Negative experience: My experience at A+ Downtown Lakeville was an absolute disaster, there were kids talking and swearing at the instructor and the Instructor fell asleep!!! Absolutely Ridiculous!!! Wish I could rate a 0

Fantastic experience: Dan is the best instructor ever. If u don't agree your stupid. Super fun class.

Fantastic experience: dan is the best don’t @ me

Fantastic experience: Dan is a great teacher, he makes learning about driving an easy and stress-free experience. I feel ready for my road test.