★★☆☆☆
Jul 2024"Good Lord, where to start....OK, let's start with facilities. In one word - inadequate. I started my course in mid-April and it was a cold rainy, windy spring till half of May. Sadly, NO HOT water in bathroom. Second, there is NO COFFEE machine in the building, nor do you have an access to hot water to make a soup or something. Yeah, there are coffee shops around and supermarket, but you lose time and a coffee is of course MUCH more expensive than it would have been from a coffee machine. Second - organisation. It's simply a chaos. Left hand is not knowing what the right hand is doing. It's NOT a big school, but communication between staff and the customers is far from perfect. Quite often I had to send multiple emails just to get a straight answer. In fact, due to the fact the school did not do its job and not informed authorities about my new address, I had IMMENSE problems getting the documents I needed.When THEY need something, they will pester you almost every day with their emails although I told them you gonna write them when you have an update. Third- attitude. Quite frankly one has a feeling you are more a nuisance for them rather than a treasured customer. They don't treat you like a customer, they treat you like a pupil at elementary school. It might be good enough for young people doing their B license, but not good enough for people who have years of work experience behind their belt. I come from professional background, wanted to do a "blue colar job", but I am not having this..sorry Fourth - tutors. There was only ONE excellent (but he was mainly teaching bus students), two or three who were also good, but sadly you have the bad apples there as well. The so called "alte Hasen" rambling during lectures how great it was 20 years ago (who cares) and how terrible it is now with migrant workers taking their jobs and bla bla bla....There was one lecturer who was simply poisoning the lectures with his frustration so much so, that one woman complained about him and I believe he was told by the management to tone it down. Now, don't get me wrong, I AM CONSERVATIVE and against the WOKE virus, but he was so unpleasant, that I felt disgusted myself in his classes. Later I got him as my first teacher during practical training and it was HORRIBLE. First lesson- -no advice before the ride. Instead just shouting, unreasonable criticism and again...you could feel his frustration. Thankfully he was replaced later. Final observation: I thought I could finish the course in three -four months, but due to abysmal organisation it took me a year (and did not successfully finish) to complete it. At first I had a month of theory, then one month break for some reason, then theory again, then you wait for exam termins, then for riding classes, etc. etc. Verdict: Before I enrolled on the course, I went to Comes and LEWA, Gullivers seemed to be the least evil out of those three. First impression at COMES and LEWA was even worse. So I am not sure if it's a Berlin thing, but Gullivers MUST improve. Starting with how they treat the customers, organisation, proper training for lecturers and also....you have to become more international. Some lecturers rejected speaking English when one could not find a German word, but hey, this is Berlin 2024 and I want to be a truck driver, not a doctor, you should be grateful someone wants to do this job. Would I recommmend it? Def not. Do it somewhere, where it is easier and quicker, like Poland or Bulgaria for example, there is no difference in driving licences in the EU."