smartski wrote:This sounds like a slippery slope to me [pun intended ;-)]
SwingBeep partly got to the point before me. I suspect the lifts are running anyway, for staff etc. You can often see bubbles running an hour or so before they officially open, it's not extra "cost", just extra profit...which is my point about a 'slippery slope'.
Well, bringing the point that the lifts were already running anyway, I guess I can see the "slipperiness"... the charge cannot be seen as covering the costs, but rather as "fee" for a "priviledge" and thus a way to increase their profit.
--But I would still go for it, at least once; especially on a sunny/clear morning after some good fresh snowfall the previous night ;)