The meeting point
Starbucks parking lot, 1290 Marine Dr, North Vancouver, BC V7P 1T2.
Your instructor meets you in the parking lot, and every lesson ends back here. Arrive a few minutes early and bring your licence.
Where lessons start in North Vancouver
Every Zula lesson starts and ends in the Starbucks parking lot at 1290 Marine Dr, a few minutes from ICBC's North Vancouver road-test office. Here's how to find it and where we drive from there.
Why lessons start here
A 90-minute lesson is for teaching, feedback and practice, not for driving from your home to the practice area and back. With one fixed meeting point, almost all of your lesson is spent on useful driving.
The meeting point is close to good practice routes, so your instructor can match the lesson to your level from the first minute.
Areas and routes we drive
Students come from Central and Lower Lonsdale, Lynn Valley, Edgemont Village, Deep Cove, Norgate, Pemberton Heights, Capilano and nearby neighbourhoods.
From Marine Drive, your instructor picks routes for your level: quiet residential streets in Norgate and Pemberton Heights for the basics, hills and school zones toward Upper Lonsdale and Lynn Valley, busy multi-lane roads such as Marine Drive and Lonsdale Avenue, and the Upper Levels Highway once you're ready. Highway driving is now part of the ICBC road test.
Close to ICBC's road-test office
ICBC's North Vancouver driver licensing office, where road tests in North Vancouver start, is at 1331 Marine Dr in Norgate Mall, a few minutes' drive along Marine Drive from the meeting point.
A warm-up lesson before your test can cover the streets around that office, so the test area isn't new to you. Always check the exact time and place in your ICBC booking.
Book your first lesson
Pick a time online. Your confirmation email has the meeting point and what to bring.