Testimonials - Barry

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5 Stars

Jade

Over the last couple of months I have had lessons with Barry and honestly he is fantastic, very calm and gentle - yes, I passed my driver's. I highly recommend him as an instructor. Thanks to the Coastwide team for all their hardwork, keep it up.
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
5 Stars

Nicky

Our sincerest gratitude to Barry for his calm and patient teaching. His guidance and reassurance saw my daughter get her manual licence on the first try. Highest of recommendations for Barry.
Wednesday, 23 April 2025
5 Stars

Leanne

Barry is awesome! Very patient and a great teacher. The guys in the office were always so helpful!!
Tuesday, 24 September 2024
5 Stars

Christine

Excellent driving school. It was easy to book lessons, and the packages offered were reasonably priced. Everyone we dealt with (mainly Barry, who was teaching my child) was lovely and professional. Highly recommend Coastwide Driving School!
Friday, 9 June 2023
5 Stars

Frederick

Great driving lessons provided. Teaching was great.
Wednesday, 3 May 2023
5 Stars

Sascha

A big thankyou to Barry. Sacha had a 1.5 hour lesson with Barry. It was perfect - Barry was flexible, patient, thorough, and a great communicator.
Friday, 21 November 2025
5 Stars

Molly

Barry is amazing, lovely humble man, fair, tough and funny.
Thursday, 30 October 2025
5 Stars

Toby

Hi Barry, Toby is slowly getting more relaxed. Thank you so much for your patience and consideration with Toby. Best wishes, Nicole
Thursday, 5 June 2025
5 Stars

Jade

Barry has been amazing with Jade. Jade is so very happy with Barry. He has been amazing with his teaching skills and kindness. Barry has helped Jade immensely to improve her driving skills
Friday, 9 May 2025
5 Stars

JJ

Via Google I had both manual driving instructors Michale and Barry, they were fantastic with their teaching skills, calm and collective where I felt ease in learning to drive manually. I was able to pass the practical test at first go. Highly recommend both instructors.
Wednesday, 30 April 2025
5 Stars

Hazel

Cannot thank Barry enough! He has taught all four of our children, all passing their tests on their first attempt. Barry is very thorough, and is excellent at gauging your child's confidence level, helping to calm the nervous ones and ground the overconfident to be safe, responsible drivers (we had both). If you are looking for a driving instructor for your child, we highly recommend you use Barry. All the best & thanks so much Barry!!!
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
5 Stars

James

James cannot speak highly enough of Barry. Just loves the lessons and is learning a lot.
Thursday, 27 February 2025
5 Stars

Jodie

Barry is the absolute best, he taught me Auto, I really truly believe I passed because of him, even after I got my licence I always had Barry's voice in my head calmly saying slow down and what does that sign say and what's the speed limit here, he's really good at getting U to pay attention to all Ur surroundings, I had gone thru a few different driving schools before I got Barry, and I got my licence the day after my dad passed away, I don't think I could have got thru it without him and he's kind words. Thankyou Barry!
Thursday, 20 February 2025
5 Stars

Stuart

Thanks Barry you are the best and a very patient understanding instructor. Stuart Eley
Friday, 1 November 2024
5 Stars

Darcy

Very friendly and constructive feedback.
Wednesday, 11 September 2024
5 Stars

Corina

Highly recommend Barry as a Manual driving instructor for young & older learners. He came highly recommended , everyone person I asked about manual lessons they all said " Barry, hands down" Bloody Barry is a legend" Barry, Barry, Barry.
Friday, 10 May 2024
5 Stars

Braidyn

Barry has been fantastic with teaching my son Braidyn to drive. Braidyn finds him calm and constructive in his approach. Braidyn has praised Barry alot and has felt that he has adequately prepared him to successful pass his driving test.
Tuesday, 2 April 2024
5 Stars

Taylah

Cannot sing Barry’s praises any higher - I have recommended him to so many of our friends and family. He is so patient, a gentleman, and just so good at what he does. Our girl has high anxiety and he knew just how to teach her best, and has got her through her L’s and onto her P’s. He now gets a little 4 month break til we throw the next one at him! An absolute asset you your company!
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
5 Stars

Luke

Barry is absolutely amazing as a instructor he has been so patient with my son, teaching him the right way. You are a great person
Wednesday, 13 December 2023
5 Stars

Keelan

Barry was a great instructor, he would never yell, whenevr you made a mistake he would gove clear advice on how you could go about it for next time and he was just a great instructor
Saturday, 2 September 2023
5 Stars

Isabella

My 2 daughters get manual lessons from Barry. I was worried about using a male driver but my girls say he is the best, When I mention Barry's name to anyone, they always have great reviews on him.
Friday, 14 July 2023
5 Stars

Emily

Barry taught me pretty much everything i needed in manual. he was always very calm and helped me when i was always stressed out. Thank you barry for teaching me to be a good driver and making me feel comfortable when driving manual
Monday, 18 July 2022
5 Stars

Ethan

I can highly recommend Barry as he is patient, explains everything with road rules to parking the car and much more.
I went for a driving test on Friday 15/7 had a lesson prior and got tips from Barry on how to approach the driving test. I was so excited when I passed and now I’m on my red P’s. Thank you Barry.
Ethan M
Saturday, 16 July 2022
5 Stars

Mikaylah

Barry was so nice and very helpful in terms of helping me in learning what I needed to do in terms of driving. he was very precise on what I needed to work on and I wouldn’t have passed without him .Would 100% recommend him
Thursday, 5 May 2022
5 Stars

Siena

Amazing instructor, all my lesson are definitely going to be with him!!Highly recommend!!
Monday, 18 April 2022
5 Stars

Ryan

Incredible teacher would recommend to anyone
Saturday, 5 February 2022
5 Stars

Peter

Thanks for all your help Barry towards getting my licence. Peter
Monday, 31 January 2022
5 Stars

Casey

5 stars! Barry is the best couldn’t have done it without him!
Tuesday, 14 September 2021
5 Stars

Ebony

Highly recommend coast wide driving. I recently upgraded my license and passed first go. Barry was the most excellent driving instructor, very professional and patient. Thank you again Barry
Monday, 30 August 2021
5 Stars

Tomas

Thanks Barry, great teacher and great customer service!
Thursday, 22 July 2021
5 Stars

Thomas

Barry is a wanderful teacher for Thomas to learn to drive and is a patient and happy and a really nice man
Thursday, 15 July 2021
5 Stars

Athena

Barry was an amazing instructor that was very supportive throughout the whole experience, and with his thorough driving lessons and feedback i was able to pass first go.
Tuesday, 13 July 2021
5 Stars

Krystal

Barry was awesome! i appreciate the Professionalism and thoroughness in my lessons:)
Tuesday, 6 July 2021
5 Stars

Sam

Sam was very happy with Barry as his instructor.

Mum (Jenny) was impressed with the great customer service whenever she spoke to them on the phone.
Tuesday, 29 June 2021
5 Stars

Brett

Very professional, and informative lesson.
Thursday, 24 June 2021
5 Stars

Liam

Barry is excellent!
Thursday, 27 May 2021
5 Stars

Sid

Highly recommended
Wednesday, 24 March 2021
5 Stars

Tyrone

Barry is a great teacher, and all the staff have been extremely kind and helpful at Coastwide Driving School.
Wednesday, 24 March 2021
5 Stars

Andrew

Cant recommend Coastwide Driving School enough! From lessons with Barry to test day with Steve, the journey couldn’t have been easier. Thank you both so much for ensuring that I passed my manual test first go! Both these blokes couldn’t do enough for us and my younger brother will be starting with them next.
Sunday, 14 February 2021
5 Stars

Cai

Great instructing by Barry :)
Thursday, 4 February 2021
5 Stars

Rhys

You are the best driving school and keep up the great work
Thursday, 10 December 2020
5 Stars

Tyson

Barry was great cool calm and informative, thankyou
Friday, 23 October 2020
5 Stars

Isaac

Barry was excellent. Very patient and helped Isaac to feel confident in his driving
Tuesday, 13 October 2020
5 Stars

Georgia

Barrys is a very good teacher and he taught me a lot i thank him :)
Wednesday, 23 September 2020
5 Stars

Adam

I personally had Barry Spencer. Great instructor very thorough and very reassuring. Easy to speak to and ask questions. All around great experience and great result! Can’t thank Barry enough
Thursday, 17 September 2020
5 Stars

Hector

First of all I would like to thank the team and Barry for getting my goal done Barry is a patient instructor and the team is also customer service friendly .
Monday, 31 August 2020
5 Stars

Blake

Amazing Driving instructors who will go to any length to help a learner out. Really appreciate the time and effort that has gone into getting me to this point. Thanks
Monday, 31 August 2020
5 Stars

DJ

Barry Spencer is an excellent teacher, very patient and kind. Hoping he is still doing the teaching when my 13 year old goes for his licence.
Friday, 28 August 2020
5 Stars

Harry

Barry Spencer has been an amazing instructor,
Very calm and patient, knowledgeable and a great teacher. Cannot recommend Barry highly enough.
Tuesday, 28 July 2020
5 Stars

Natalie

Barry was excellent , very patient , punctual and friendly would highly recommend Barry and Coastwide
Thursday, 26 September 2019
5 Stars

DEEDAR

Thanks Coastwide for such an awesome instructor “Barry Spencer”. Very friendly & experienced mate. Highly recommended for anyone looking to clear their manual in just one shot :)
Tuesday, 13 August 2019
5 Stars

Natalie

Barry was extremely helpful. He made my first time drive manual a breeze and took a lot of stress off.
Friday, 3 May 2019
5 Stars

Patrick

Barry's an awesome teacher. Will be making bookings for more lessons very soon.
Thanks
Wednesday, 24 April 2019
4 Stars

Bethanie

Thank you for making my daughter feel comfortable and having patience with her
Friday, 16 August 2019


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  • Brisbane Office: South Brisbane, Qld 
    Lockyer Valley Office: Laidley, QLD 4341
    Sunshine Coast Office: Birtinya, QLD 4575
  • Mail: PO Box 5232 West End Q 4101
  • 2WARDS DRIVING Pty. Ltd. ABN 41 919 711 847 trading as Coastwide Driving School under licence.