Why even look for a ski "Destination" if you are all beginners?!! Why spend the air-fare and lodging for Bunny Hills?? Ski the hell out of the little hill close to home until you are all at least mid-intermediates. Then you can enjoy a good BIG hill!
OK here's some I like, and the reasons -- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA -- Small, friendly & cheap(er) - Sunlight: one base, near Glenwood Springs (hot springs) and Aspen; Sol Vista: 2 mountains, one base = easy to get back together; Ski Cooper (not Copper Mtn): beginner runs all come to one base (side lift has the hard stuff); Loveland: has one very small ski area (Valley) with bunny hill and a top-to-bottom green, and another large ski area (Basin) with 3 (of 6) chairs having top-to-bottom green runs. -- BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB -- Big Resorts - Keystone: a resort with 3 mountains, and all greens are on the front mountain, but has a beginner chair and a magic carpet at the TOP of the mountain for great snow for beginners (avoid the urge to ski "Schoolmarm" until you are sure 3 miles non-stop will not wear your most beginner out! -- so down-load the gondola to be fresh for the next day), central to all of Colorado; Breckenridge: great town, 2 mountains with green, and a third (Peak 7 ) with very easy blues, lots of other stuff to do; Copper Mtn: "naturally separated terrain" means the greens in one part with "green" base, blues to the left and black further left, also has a more-difficult green area at the top.
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I DO NOT suggest Steamboat for beginners!...basically the only green runs are at the low-altitude base which can be sparse or slushy snow, there are no greens above the gondola, and the few from there are LONG catwalks (often narrow) and one run will likely exhaust you for the day, expensive and discounts are rare....however, a great town with lots of other stuff to do.
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