Dinner Plain is accessible by on the Great Alpine Road from Harrietville 45 kilometers via Mount Hotham 20 kilometers or from Bairnsdale via Omeo 60 kilometers. If travelling through Mount Hotham, just tell the gate staff that you are driving right through to Dinner Plain and they will not charge you the entry fee. Fitting snow chains must be carried after Harrietville or Omeo between June 1 and October 10 each year and you can be required to fit them at various points on the highway.
There is a bus service from Mount Hotham in winter, leaving from the Transit Center and opposite the Big D ski lift. Bus travellers would catch the Melbourne-Bright-Harrietville service to Mount Hotham and change at the transit center, but the bus is usually used by people skiing at Hotham and staying at Dinner Plain.
Northeast Coachlines operates HothamBus.com from 2013, offering daily & overnight services from Melbourne to Mt Hotham, Dinner Plain & Falls Creek from June to early October.
