Hi Jessica,
Gifted babes (8-18 mths) weekdays class is $280 for twice a week and $396 for three times a week.
For weekend class, it is called parent and babe, once a week is $168. Content is similar between the weekday and weekend class but weekend class does not have the chinese component.
And yes, you have to register him for classes that fit you gal's sleep pattern or else she will get pretty cranky in class.
My son has been attending for over a month since june.
You can try other classes such as kindermusik, gymboree,my gym, julia gabriel...
went for trial at all the above except my gym. Personally find julia gabriel has got better teacher, more lively and caring but location is a bit inconvenient for me so I settled with GUG. My son enjoys all the trial classes, he is a socialble baby, so as long as there is company he is happy.
Over the last one month, he is getting more setlled in class as in he pays more attention during story telling and the phonics session. when he just started, he gets pretty restless and just want to crawl towards the teacher but now he can stay put for longer. also we notice he actually picked up the phonics sound for As and Bs , and can recognise the objects/animals associated with them .
I'm not sure if his progress is just a natural transition to toddlerhood or the classes but he is definitely happy in class..
overall, we are quite happy with his progress and will continue with GUG.