Advice on booking guitar lessons

Check out www.guitarscanada.com.  There is a lot of discussion about online lessons, Skype lessons, and video lessons.  I think that would be a good start.

It is always good to have good teacher early on to make sure you don't develop any bad habits/form that is really tough to correct.

I hope this helps.

www.jamplay.com  It's excellent value.

I can personally recommend two acoustic guitar instructors on that site: Miche Fambro and Randall Williams.  Miche is one of the most talented and original musicians I've ever heard, never mind played with. Randall is a nationally recognized instructor and clinician. He's also a BTer who occasionally hires me to play bass for him so he can make funny faces at me.

Marma - jamplay looks great! Thank you so much, that is the perfect gift for him. I'll be buying him a subscription shortly. :-)

Don't know about jamplay, but I really like guitartricks.com.  I've let my subscription lapse but I am about to renew it.

Double post.  Sorry

Sounds like you've made up your mind on lessons, but still wanted to put in my thought on the matter. I learned to play guitar on my own through internet tabs/chord sheets. My main goal was to be able to play my favorite songs. I didn't (and still don't) have much desire to learn the nuances of the musical scales, notes and fret board. Some teachers are very much into the music theory and it can frustrate some who "just wanna play a song."

My FIL is a long time music teacher and currently gives lessons and he teaches the theory. For kids I think this is the right way to teach. For someone who's 47yo, I wonder if he'd prefer a teacher willing to take a simpler (and quicker) approach to learning songs on the guitar.

I'm no pro, but can get by.