Viva Driving School, Inc. - Pasadena, California

Henrik Beijar

David and the team at VIVA were very helpful and accommodating when trying to schedule my twin daughters’ driving lessons. We had a unique situation and David was patient and friendly as we worked thru scheduling challenges. Their driving instructors are very professional, knowledgeable and courteous and helped get my daughters on their path to their licenses.

Skarce Voxan

I forgot to give 5 stars but this place hands down taught me everything about driving & helped me pass my driving test some years back. I would def recommend for anyone trying to learn.

Siddharth Premnath

Just passed my test! George is a fantastic instructor - very patient and knowledgable. I felt extremely prepared for the test after 6 hours of classes. The administrative staff (Dayz) is super helpful, and I felt like my lessons were well curated to suit my needs.

Zali Kierra

Randy is such an amazing driving instructor he made me feel very comfortable on the road and it was my very first time driving. I thought I’d have an insane panic attack but he was very patient and calm with me. He gave detailed instructions and let me know all the rules of the road. It was a very wonderful experience enough so that I’m coming for one more lesson before I finally take my driving test! (:
Update- I passed on the first try !

MERYEM GÖKYAR

BEST DRIVING SCHOOL EVER... HELPED ME TO OVERCOME MY DRIVING ANXIETY... GOT MY LICENCE EASILY. (as a 35+ yo first time driver)

Like many people in my age that had never taken their license, I was anxious about driving. In my previous attempts with another driving school just before finding VİVA and years ago with my parents I had near-collision experience so I was scared to death when I first started with Instructor Robert: I was even hesitating to hit the gas beyond 10mph in my first lesson. However, he was such a nice instructor, calm, professional, skillful, safe and supportive and encouraged me so much to overcome my anxiety and get my license easily in my second attempt. He was the real hero behind my success. Besides Instructor Robert, when he wasn't available, I took lessons with Instructor Dean, Dave, Sam and Noha all of them were nice, calm, professional, well-skilled and helped me to better my driving skills. All of my instructors were there on time, we had great communication, and they encouraged me while also respecting my borders and fears. All of the cars that I had driven with Viva were well equipped and fully branded with driving school logo and signs indicating it was a student driver inside. The routes that Viva and Ins. Robert had been choosing, were all wisely structured to teach the student the essentials with increasing challenges step by step: It was the perfect example of curriculum design for a hands on learning process. Last but not least, Daisy from the Viva office showed me she was in my team all the time, always tried her best to adjust the schedules, find me the best instructors, understood my needs as a student and informed me at every step about lesson scheduling, payments, exam scheduling, lesson heads ups, and responded even my silliest questions (I now see that some were really dumb questions) with great patience and with all of her sweetness.
THANKS VIVA,
Best, Meryem

Victoria Imo

I had a wonderful experience with viva driving school, they were very patient with me and each driver that assisted me was very encouraging and helpful when I made mistakes. George, Robert and Nora were all exceptional teachers. They were very supportive in my driving abilities and I was able to space out my appointments to fit my schedule. I highly recommend them for anyone struggling to understand what is needed to pass a driving test. Thank you Viva.

N A

Paid 10 hours for my wife and barely learned from them and failed the test horribly. She only had 5 minute parking lesson from them, some of the instructors was more distracting than helpful, talking about their lives etc... She even ask to learn the free way on the last lesson and they completely disregard her. We asked them to give us a discount for another two more lesson but they refused. Had to pay another 5 hours with another instructor and later passed the test.

Milo monteel

I passed today with viva. The instructors were very good and they help out a lot ?