I had a similiar problem at YLIL several years ago when I was looking for places to do my PPL. Lilydale was very close to home, and seemed convienent but had very junior instructors (at that time) who seemed much more interested in building their own hours rather than actually teaching me to fly. I also remember that they had a policy whereby once you had a PPL (or CPL if I understand correctly) you had to do a 3 hour 'check flight' with one of their instructors every 3 months if you wanted to hire one of their aircraft. C'mon please. Evern one of the instructors told me that that was just money grabbing....
The A/C where cheaper per hour than most you'll find at MB, however the qualitity of training aircraft at MOST MB schools is better, IMHO.
AB