Berkeley Driving School

Negative experience: They do not answer the phone or respond to email. If you schedule a lesson, their instructions say to call, but since nobody answers you can’t reschedule. This means that they end up keeping your deposit and you have no recourse. I tried calling for two weeks. No one ever returned any of my calls. Review Updates We had to re-do our lessons with another school because we could never get BDS to respond and provide evidence of our previous lesson. So ended up paying double. 11/3/25 - I have filed a complaint with the BBB. The BBB was also unable to reach anyone at this business and they closed the inquiry. 11/10/25 - I have filed a complaint with the CA DMV. Will see if they can take action and have this company's license revoked. I recommend anyone else having trouble with this business to file complaints with BBB and the DMV.

Negative experience: Paid online deposit and received confirmation of upcoming appointment. They were no-show and never called or answered calls or texts. Storefront looks abandoned and others have had similar experiences.

Negative experience: No one showed up for my daughter’s 2nd lesson, despite multiple confirmation emails. No one has followed up after multiple texts and emails. We need a letter from this school to confirm our completion of the 2 hour lesson. As a result we will need to start over with a new school to get our required 6 hours.

Negative experience: The first two lessons were fine, but the teacher never showed up for my daughter’s 3rd lesson, which was scheduled just days before her driving test. As a result, she does not have documentation of the first four hours that she did with them and they have not responded to my phone calls, texts or emails. As a result of this very unprofessional service, my daughter will likely have to delay getting her license, despite all of her efforts to be very prepared

Negative experience: The instructor failed to show up for a scheduled lesson, and neither they nor the company has responded to calls or text messages.