What I mean by "it's only a PPL" is...it is not like you are looking for a creme de la creme CPL license from "quality" school that only Lord Fathersham Ponsonby Smithe can afford, and only a school that Lord Farqhaurt Snittert-Rothschild is intertested in hiring from.
And I am not saying Floirda schools a re not quality.
I have trained in the US and the UK, and for a PPL i can't see the point in paying £8k for something I can get for £3k without any differences for the worst.
As for manouvers, I have not come accross a UK based school that teach the following:
1) Spins (as in actualy spinning)
2) Short field landings (practical not just waffle)
3) Short field take off's (practical not just waffle)
4) Soft field landings (practical not just waffle)
5) Soft field take off's (practical not just waffle)
6) 360 turns over an object
7) S turns over landmarks
Items 1 - 5 I think are absolutley critical to learn.