Depends on your place located like here in the philippines we have our online wallet which is coins.ph that is so accessible.
Yes, I agree with you, it totally depends on where you are located because there are some country that have their own coin and online wallet that makes their country men feels easy and to those who does not have they uses blockchain.info
For beginners, I think blockchain.info is the best choice as it is easy to create the wallet, to use it, and you can access this anywhere. Also, I think the site has no restrictions in most countries. At least so far, I don't know any country that prohibits its use.
Web wallets are probably one of the best ways to go for beginners, but it's also fairly easy to setup an online desktop wallet too. I believe it's BitPay's PC wallet that has step by step instructions that you have to click through after you download it, and some of the slides you have to click through even educate you on bitcoin and best security practices.