wsmempson said
My advice to anyone about to embark on a PPL is to do the rounds of the various schools and have a good look around before committing yourself to one school - take a trial lesson at the final three you're considering, as this will be money well spent in the long run.
If I could just add, for any newbies browsing this thread.... and stating the obvious, but that's what I'm best at......
1) Those trial lessons all count towards your PPL
2) Don't think that once you have "committed" yourself that you couldn't change - if you need too, you can, just take your training record with you - no problem at all (although it shouldn't come to that in reality). Make sure you annotate your log book with the details of each lesson as well.
3) Never be afraid to change instructors within a club/school if you feel that you are not getting on particularly well with a particular instructor. It may just be that someone else explains things in a different (not better) way which you can understand.