rziola - the 'grand total' figure is meaningless without a full breakdown of how it was achieved.
Advertised prices - at ANY school - are usually twaeked to fit the minimum profile requirements and are rarely achievable.
At least one school here in the USA advertises a JAA PPL assuming 25 hours dual and 20 hours solo - but to do it is pretty much out of the question - so there WILL be extra charges.
They admit that it is an advertised price that is generated by the back biting flight training industry here in Florida.
I'm curious as to where the $2,500 estimate for re-sits and extra training came from. Take the UK Instrument Rating flight test, for example, the first attempt is the hardest flight you are ever likely to do - the second hardest will be the re-sit (statistically, only 40% of applicants pass this test first time - less than half - so it is MORE LIKELY that you will end up re-sitting this one).
With a test fee around GB£600, 2 hours of aircraft hire at around £350 per hour, landing fees, approach fees, car parking fees, lunch, bit of V.A.T., possible transit of the aircraft from base to the test centre and back (with extra landing fees and instructor fees?), the test day is going to cost you somewhere in the region of GB£1,500 - that's US$2,700 at todays exchange rate and you haven't yet added in "extra training" required to correct the mistakes.
As the saying goes, "Be afraid, be very afraid" of any advertised price - at ANY school.