Prestige is Sydney’s multi-award-winning driving school. Our Balmain East instructors pick you up from home, school or work across Balmain East, Birchgrove, Balmain, Pyrmont, McMahons Point and Milsons Point, 7 days a week from 8 am to 7:30 pm.
Learning to drive in Balmain East gives you a mix of quiet residential streets and busier local roads typical of the Inner West area. Your instructor builds your skills step by step, from your first turns to confident lane changes.
Balmain East learners usually sit their driving test at Service NSW Marrickville or Service NSW Bondi Junction. In your final lessons we practise around the test centre you book and the manoeuvres testing officers look for.
“Adam is a fantastic instructor. He’s polite, patient and knowledgeable. Highly recommend him.”
“Made me feel comfortable in my first ever time driving, looking forward to taking more lessons with him”
Your first lesson with us. Online bookings only. Details
One-to-one in a dual-control automatic car. Details
Ten 1-hour lessons at a lower price per hour. Details
Warm-up lesson, our car for the test and drop-off afterwards. Details
Prestige Driving School is an accredited provider of the Transport for NSW Safer Drivers Course.
If you’re under 25 and have logged at least 50 hours of driving, including at least 10 hours at night (bonus hours don’t count), the course gives you a 20-hour credit in your log book. It has two modules: a 3-hour facilitated group discussion and 2 hours of in-vehicle coaching.
The nearest test centres are Service NSW Marrickville, Marrickville Metro, 20 Smidmore Street, Marrickville, and Service NSW Bondi Junction, Shop G2, 19-23 Hollywood Avenue, Bondi Junction. Driving tests are by appointment.
Yes. Our instructors pick you up and drop you off anywhere across Balmain East, including Birchgrove, Balmain, Pyrmont, McMahons Point and Milsons Point. You can choose a different pick-up and drop-off address for each lesson.
Yes. Our Driving Test Package includes a pick-up 75 minutes before your test, a one-hour warm-up lesson around your test centre, use of our dual-control car for the test and a drop-off afterwards.
Yes. We also teach in Birchgrove, Balmain, Pyrmont, McMahons Point, Milsons Point, Waverton, Rozelle and Kirribilli, and in suburbs right across Sydney.
No. All our lessons are in automatic cars. If you pass your test in an automatic, your P1 licence will have an automatic-only condition.
Questions? Call us on 1300 806 506 (office Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm).