Intensive driving courses in Luton

Course options

• 3-Day Intensive — 15 hours of tuition (£675 paid to your instructor)
• 4-Day Intensive — 20 hours of tuition (£900 paid to your instructor)
• 5-Day Intensive — 25 hours of tuition (£1,125 paid to your instructor)

A booked practical test is required for an intensive course. Requests with fewer than four days before the test cannot proceed to payment automatically — they are held for manual review first.

What you pay

£149 Course Management Fee paid to DriveBooked, and tuition at £45 per hour paid directly to your independent instructor. The two are never combined. A practical driving test is not included and is booked by you with the DVSA.

Who an intensive course suits

• You already hold a booked DVSA practical test — a course is built around it.
• You can free up several consecutive days or a run of long sessions.
• You have had some lessons already, or you learn quickly under pressure.
• You need a licence by a fixed date, for work, study or a move.

It suits you less well if you can only drive once a week, if you find long sessions tiring, or if your test is so close that no instructor could realistically prepare you in time.

Learners booking from Luton most often test at Luton. Your course is planned around the centre shown on your own DVSA booking.

Choosing your course length

• 3-Day Intensive — 15 hours of tuition, £675 paid to your instructor.
• 4-Day Intensive — 20 hours of tuition, £900 paid to your instructor.
• 5-Day Intensive — 25 hours of tuition, £1,125 paid to your instructor.

Beginners usually need the longer courses; drivers with previous lessons or overseas experience often need fewer hours. Your instructor assesses you at the first session and will say plainly if the hours you picked are not realistic. Nobody at DriveBooked promises a pass.

Realistic scheduling

Courses are planned backwards from your test date, with the last sessions as close to the test as possible and, where practical, on the roads around the centre you will use. Instructors need a few working days between accepting your booking and your test, and requests with fewer than four days to go are held for manual review before any payment is taken.

Long days are tiring. Two to four hours a day, with breaks, is common; six-hour days back to back rarely produce better driving.

Around Luton the realistic options are Luton, Leighton Buzzard (Stanbridge Road) (about 9 miles), Stevenage (about 9 miles). Travelling time to and from the centre comes out of your course hours, so a centre a few miles further away can cost you a chunk of driving over a week.

Instructors covering Luton often also work in Leighton Buzzard, Stevenage, St Albans, Letchworth, so a session may start or finish outside the town if that fits the roads you need.

Manual or automatic, and acceptance

Intensive courses run in both transmissions. A manual pass covers manual and automatic cars; an automatic pass gives an automatic-only car licence, which is a DVSA rule rather than ours. Your booking is only ever offered to verified instructors whose recorded transmission matches your choice.

An instructor must accept your course before anything is confirmed. The £149 you pay DriveBooked buys the search and the management of the booking for up to 28 days — tuition at £45 per hour is agreed and paid separately with the instructor.

Luton sits in Bedfordshire, LU postcode area. We search instructors by test centre rather than by town boundary, so a course can still be arranged if the right instructor is based a few miles outside Luton.