The place
Megève is a village with a horse-drawn centre and skiing shared with neighbouring resorts. Confirm the current lift map on megeve.com before you assume a particular link is open. It is in Haute-Savoie, closer to Geneva than to the Tarentaise, and it is not a 2030 competition site.
People choose it because it feels like a town that learned to ski, not a station built for a lift queue. That is a fair reason. It is a poor reason if the group wants 300 km of high, north-facing skiing. Val d’Isère is that trip. Megève is this one.
The Nordic races are at La Clusaz and Le Grand-Bornand, not here, even though all three are spoken of as “Haute-Savoie”.
Before you book
Read the resort’s current piste map for the week you travel. A kilometre total is a brochure figure, useful for comparing domains and useless for predicting a queue. Lift passes are explained on the pass page. The Games timetable, where this resort is involved, is on the venue table.