+1 on finding the instructor being the more important thing.
This was a long time ago in the States, but Cessna used to have a $5 for your first lesson promotion. So one day I pulled in.
The instructor du jour (a frustrated airline pilot wannabe) was a jerk. We took off and climbed to a couple thousand feet and he showed me how to make a left turn around a point using a barn. OK, not problem, I'm now focusing on the barn and making the left turn and it suddenly dawns on me that the barn is getting bigger and bigger. I looked over and this guy was sound asleep. I poked him in the ribs and he woke up with a screaming obscenity and grabbed the stick.
We went back and landed and I left that place forever. My next instructor was fantastic. Former Navy F-14 jock. I really learned