Cooma Getting there & around

Getting there & away

The airport is about 10km southwest of Cooma on the Snowy Mountains Hwy. Rex (13 17 13) flies to/from Sydney daily. Aeropelican (13 13 13; www.aeropelican.com.au) is due to start flights to/from Newcastle in 2007.

Greyhound Ski Express (13 14 99) buses run from Sydney and Canberra to Thredbo, Bullocks Flat Skitube and Jindabyne daily.

SkiBus (6456 2957) buses run daily from Thredbo and Perisher via the Skitube, Jindabyne and Cooma (on request) to Canberra.

The Snowy Mountains Express Shuttle (1800 679 754) meets every Rex flight and runs between the airport and Jindabyne, Alpine Way, Perisher Blue and Thredbo.

Transborder (6241 0033) buses run daily from Thredbo via the Skitube ($21), Jindabyne ($25) and Cooma ($35) to Canberra ($64).

Victoria’s V/Line (136 196) has a twice-weekly run from Melbourne to Canberra via Cooma ($63). The nine-hour trip from Melbourne takes you by train to Bairnsdale, then by bus.

Heading to Batemans Bay, you can travel via Numeralla to Braidwood on a partly sealed road skirting Deua National Park. If you’re heading to Bega, be warned that there’s no petrol until Bemboka.