I went to NZ this summer, wicked fun but the snow was appalling.
If you've got a flight to europe refunded you probably won't get much further than Europe!!
For skiing in France, the biggest and best are the portes du soleil (morzine, avoriaz, chatel, 3 valleys (courcheval, meribel val thorens) and espace killy (val d'isere, tignes).