Many positive threads on here about European.
I did my MCC there back in 2008 and had a great time, groundschool was conducted by TD and a knowledgable and highly experianced guy who was a 747 skipper, the films are old but it doesnt have to be a new release to get the content of the film and digest/discuss the series of events.
At the time European were still operating the 737's the chief bod popped in one day to ask if any of the 4 of us had 500hrs, we didnt, but had we then we would have been offered an interview for an FO's position...
If the sims are free then you can sit in them and use them with your sim partner for as many hours as you want...free!
We did have a couple of tech faults during the course but the engineers where onto it pretty much straight away.