My wife's cousin lives in a French enclave a stone's throw from Geneva airport I believe. She's invited us to come for ski week in February. She said Chamonix or Montblanc is a 45 minute drive. Are those the same mountain even — I'm clueless although I've skied Montblanc with my brother once — we paid for a van service from Geneva and didn't even hassle with renting a car. This time we will have a rental car so we can hit multiple resorts or stay put with one lift. What are the best options?
My kids are 9 and 11 and have only skied for about a month total. They don't handle steep or ice well but otherwise they can ski all mountain but we stick to mostly easy and intermediate slopes though they'll hit an occasional expert slope when I know they can handle it. I think it's a great opportunity for them to ski a big European mountain and since we'll have free lodging I think we should take advantage. The driving doesn't sound too bad.
We ski 4 days from 9am to 4pm and call it a day. I could probably push them to 5 days but honestly 4 full days of skiing is probably about right for now. They will be first on the mountain and last off for 4 days. This is what we've always done and they're good skiers considering how little they've actually skied.