Cheese making kits - any recommendations?

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I’m looking into getting my SO a cheese making kit for Christmas.
We frequently try out different food and beverage makings, to see what it’s like.
So what I’m looking for is a basic kit, to get a feel for what cheese making is like, and if it’s something we want to try more of.

So for a complete kit, up to $100 would be doable. Less if there are additional materials (not counting milk) that are needed.
We do have experience trying out new cooking/food making, so it doesn’t have to be super simple.
We do have refrigerator/cool storage space, if aging is needed.

Does anyone have kits that they can recommend?

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My aunt bought this one last year. She’s made several soft cheeses that came out tasty.

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I’ve used the 30 minute Mozzarella & Ricotta Kit from here:
http://www.cheesemaking.com/

Worked well except I couldn’t easily find milk that hadn’t been ultra-pasteurized.

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You can’t buy raw milk (non-pasteurized milk) in stores, and you can only buy raw milk cheese if it’s been aged for 60+ days.

But you can get it directly from a farm - here is a list for Virginia.

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Nice list. I was making a distiction between pasteurized milk and ultra-pasteurized milk. Regular old pasteurized milk works fine for making Mozzarella apparently. The problem is that the jug of milk at the grocery store doesn’t say if it is ULTRA-pasteurized or not.

The kit even tells you how to make it with powered milk but I haven’t tried it.