"What a terrific school”

I've just completed a week as a complete beginner in Escuela Montalban. I have to say that I had a terrific experience of the school.

The Spanish classes were split up into different levels, indeed during the week that I was there I was in a class of only 2 which was great for learning and there were numerous opportunities to hang out with the other students during breaks.

I couldn't have asked for a better teacher in Paco, who was extremely funny, patient and an extraordinarily gifted educator. The entire class was in Spanish, which, if I had known in advance might have made me a bit worried about whether I could understand but it totally worked. Somehow with even my low level of Spanish it wasn't a problem. Paco was able to communicate extremely effectively even to a class of total beginners.

The school itself has a great atmosphere and is definitely one of the highlights of Granada for me. The teachers are very engaged, funny and relaxed. There are students from all over the world which makes it a really fun place to study. The teachers made paella for us one lunch time, and gave us an opportunity to bring food from our respective countries (or whatever we could source in Granada) which was a great way of meeting people from different cultures.

This is without actually getting into some of the unique selling points of the school. There is a fantastic itinerary of optional electives and trips. Indeed if you are booking through an agent I would advise contacting the school directly (the office staff have excellent English) so you can time your flights to go to as many of them as possible. I don't know if they vary them so I won't list them here, but they were really special.

I had no issue with the language school. The agent I used to book the trip, golearnto, got the dates of the course wrong (it was 5 instead of 7 days) which made things unnecessarily difficult with flights but I put the blame for that on the agent, so that's the only thing to look out for.

In summary, if you are thinking about signing up for this school then my categorical advice is do it. I can't think of anything to improve.

David Forrest (29 years / Glasgow) in TRIPADVISOR