Yup, Billo I have heard about them and I even trained with them.
If anyone from epa reads this, they will know who wrote it, so I am not hiding behind anonimity.
My PPL training was a nightmare, it began well, but things very quickly went sour. They are a business not a school and they certainly are no where near to an "academy". Unfortnately I have to refrain from giving my full opinion of the place and the people but, suffice to say, I am 100% positive that you WILL get better training elsewhere for much much cheaper. There are plenty of hidden costs involved at epa.
Seriously you are better off doing the course closer to home instead of travelling to a foreign place where they will play you into a corner from which the only escape is to finish the course as amicably as possible.
I hope that this helps you, more importantly I hope that you have not already enrolled with them as I realise that this topic/thread has been dorment for a couple of months.