It depends on your budget really. 

If you're willing to pay for it, private lessons are really good, and can be had in most resorts (I don't recommend booking with ESF though, I had a beginner lesson with them and swore I would never ski again it was so bad. Fortunately a good instructor elsewhere got me back on the snow...)

If you want group lessons, you won't be able to go through resort ski schools unless you take a week off, but the Geneva based clubs run lesson packs - try messaging the CERN Ski club, I've met people who've done their courses and enjoyed them:

https://sites.google.com/site/cernskiclub/Home/the-club/prices

Or message ClareA who posted the girls beginner ski weekend - I did one of her weekends last year and it was brilliant. Great value and very well organised. 

If she has enough interest she might be able to organise one that's not girls only.

http://www.scig.ch/

Hi Matt,

Check the link above. It's a ski club, they offer lessons or just transport to ski days. It's quite social, though the sign-up procedure is a bit faffy. 

Enjoy the snow :-)

Thanks both.  I have fired off a couple of emails to see what the deal is. Cheers.

Keep us updated, Matt! :D

Amy, whats the signup procedure for SCIG? Im thinking of trying them out for intermediate snowboarding lessons soon. Their website wasn't clear, especially about snowboarding. 

Thanks!

I took all my lessons with ESF and I think it all depends on the individual instructor. The best one turned out to be a 19 year old boy, and if I was told his age before the lesson I would not have agreed to it probably :) But I am so glad I had the lessons with him, he helped me get rid of fear and really improve my skills.