The best western marlborough motor inn is a 3. 5 star motel, sitting majestically on the monaro highway, the first motel on your right as you come from canberra. Its about 110km or one hour drive from canberra and 90km to the snowy mountains and coast. The best western marlborough welcomes visitors with sixty well appointed units and suites, all with direct isd and idd phone, color tv with austar cable channels, mini bar, tea and coffee making facilities, central heating, refrigerators, iron and ironing board and hair dryers. There are conference facilities for up to eighty people with a break away room for group discussion. Specialising in quality accommodation for discerning travelers, this luxurious property is an ideal base for a ski excursion in winter or for discovering the snowy mountains at other times of the year. Cooma is the capital of snowy mountain and the first multicultural town in australia during the time of the building of the great snowy mountain hydro scheme.