I know - sorry - I am trying to think ahead.
DH, DD (now 12) and I went skiing when I turned 40 - a week in Rauris, Austria. We had a ball. As beginners, we learned how to stay upright (although I fell off a button lift so spent barely any time in the mountains between getting stitched up again and letting it heal). We all got up to the mountains, but I only spent 1 session up there (I did get back on skis on the nursery slopes afterwards - but as my eye was a bit swollen, I chickened out of learning scarier slopes with reduced visibility and practiced stopping and turns and having fun instead, building confidence rather than destroying it further).
DH found he could do it ok, but was sore (I know - to be expected) and is getting older so doesn't want to over-do things. DD loved it and was frustrated that there were some in her class so slow she couldn't get going much.
We were going to go again last year, or this year, but life got in the way. So we are trying to plan ahead to go next spring instead.
Before we went before, we did some lessons at home (an astro-turf covered moving walkway type of slope, not brushes) and had the basics. And we did 5 days of ski school in Austria. We would likely do some refresher sessions in the artificial slope again before going next year.
Though we loved the slopes and the school and the hotel in Rauris, it was a very small place and not a lot to do if you didn't ski daily. DH thinks he'd only want to ski maybe 4/5 days, and only get lessons 2/3 days. So he'd prefer a larger town (we quite liked Zell Am See as a town, when I had to go back to get stitches checked).
Other than Zell Am See, does anyone have good recommendations for us?
We would like accommodation where we have access to a pool, but self catering or hotel are both fine.
We are definitely not looking for advanced skiing - beginner to intermediate at most.
But we also don't want a big party town with lots of apres-ski, that's not our thing. Fresh air, getting on the slopes, nice food. And something to do on a couple of days when we don't hit the slopes (although DD probably would ski daily).
I've heard France is a bit more for people who know what they are doing. Austria was nice. But we'd be open to any country once it's relatively accessible from Dublin airport.