What were you flying? My flying club charges around 100 for an hours lesson in a 152 and about 130 in a 172. It's obviously going to be more expensive in a school than a club. Have a look at local flying clubs, although if you're looking at going PPL straight to CPL then you might want better continuity as a lot of flying clubs don't offer CPL training - however I think PPL training is fairly standard and can be conducted anywhere (as long as the training is up to scratch, natch) so you could move to a school after PPL and hour building, which is what I'll probably do when I slowly work up my hours. 185 per hour is very, very steep.