Driving Lessons Herne Hill

Geelong VicRoads, at 180 Fyans Street, South Geelong. It is about 7.4 kilometres south east of Herne Hill, roughly 14 minutes, and it is the office your driving lessons are built around.

Because the office is on the far side of the city from you. Central Geelong is only about three kilometres from Herne Hill, but Geelong VicRoads sits at South Geelong beyond it, so you drive through the city traffic to get there. The distance is modest and the run is not instant.

Yes, for ordinary driving lessons. Home, work or the Minerva Road shops all work. For drive test preparation we would suggest meeting at Geelong VicRoads instead, or booking a 90 minute driving lesson, because at 14 minutes each way the travel takes about half of a 60 minute booking.

The residential streets between the small shopping strips. Local traffic, room to work, and enough slope towards the river that gradient control comes in from the first few driving lessons without anyone having to look for a hill.

It is the busiest road you will meet locally and the natural step up after the shopping strips. It carries the traffic through this side of Geelong, so it asks for lane discipline and turns set up well ahead. Good preparation for the city driving the test is conducted in.

They ask a little more early and it pays off. The ground falls away towards the Moorabool River, so pulling away on a grade and holding speed downhill get sorted in the first driving lessons rather than being put off until later.

Yes, and it is the most valuable part of learning here. The run into the city brings roundabouts, one way streets and steadier traffic all at once, and that is the kind of driving the roads around Geelong VicRoads ask for. We build up to it rather than starting there.

On the flatter residential streets first, then on a slope deliberately, because parking on a grade is common here. The kerbside parking along Minerva Road and Church Street is the busier version and worth doing before test day.

The rules are identical and the conditions are a little kinder. Traffic is lighter than a Melbourne suburb and the testing office is closer than most of Melbourne manages. Geelong still has a busy city centre, so there is no shortage of real driving to prepare you.

Automatic. Driving lessons in Herne Hill are in a small dual-control automatic, and that is also the car you would sit the Geelong VicRoads drive test in if your package includes it. An automatic licence covers you for automatic cars, which is what most people now drive. If you specifically need manual, tell us when you book and we will give you an honest answer on whether we can cover it.

The same as everywhere else we teach, with no regional loading. A 60 minute driving lesson booked as a package of three works out at $225, and packages that include the Geelong VicRoads drive test start at $224. The full list is further down this page. The price does not change for weekends, public holidays, early mornings or evenings.

With one driving lesson so your driving instructor can see where you are. Experienced overseas drivers usually need fewer driving lessons than they expect, and the gap is rarely car control. It is Victorian road rules, and around here it is the Geelong city streets a few minutes down the hill. From there we plan how many driving lessons you need before the Geelong VicRoads drive test.