IF you’re up at Hotham and you’re here for a good time not a long time, it can be hard to figure out where to go and what to do on any given night.

Here finally in once place we have the night-by-night guide to how to get carried away.

For each of these evenings, the advice for the next morning is the same.

Get up, get out the door, let the fresh air slap you in the face and get to the chair.

There is no cure for your ills like fresh corduroy and a pale pink dawn on face of Twilight.

Get to the Heavenly Valley chair and pay your respects to Mother Feathertop who may absolve you of your sins.

Monday

The most fabled of the Hotham staff nights, this one needs no introduction.

Make your way to the General Store to let DJ Eddy treat your body and your soul.

Hotham’s sweatiest dancefloor, if you’re going in your thermals make sure they’re odour resistant if you’re any chance of locking tonsils with a Melbourne Demons member up for the weekend in Daddy’s Range Rover.

Not for the faint hearted, careful with your jacket.

If you’re closer to 30 than 20, head to DP Hotel in Dinner Plain on the roundabout for a more reserved good time.

They have a social darts competition, $10 to enter, 32-person elimination tournament, winner takes all.

Busses run down and back.

For a more relaxed evening round the fire, check out cocktail specials at Highplains Hotel.

Tuesday

DP Hotel has karaoke and trivia on alternating Tuesdays, to keep you humble after your day of eliciting oohs and ahhs from the chair with your on-snow skills.

The General Store runs a trivia on a Tuesday at Hotham.

If all else fails, jump on the Hotham Community Page on Facebook and argue with a stranger about either the busses, the road, the lift infrastructure or the weather for an entertaining night in.

Wednesday

The largest darts competition in the Southern Hemisphere takes place Wednesdays between the Hotham Hotel and The General Store.

Teams are entered at the start of the season, but you can come along and watch three divisions of overly enthusiastic and meagrely talented staff throw things at a wall and yell for hours on end.

Teams tend to converge at either Hotham Hotel or The General Store as the games finish up around 10:30pm so make your way to the bus and follow the flow of traffic to either venue.

Free beer or wine with pizza purchase at Highplains Hotel.

Big Muster Distilling Co. has a karaoke night down in Dinner Plain.

Thursday

Pool competition is open to all at Highplains Hotel in Dinner Plain, $150 bar tab for the winner can help you ruin your Friday if you’re like me or pay for your meals for the weekend if you’re smart.

If you’ve been on it since Genny staff night, consider a night of rest before the weekend.

Happy Hour at Sir Loin’s in the old Last Run Bar building, elite level steaks if you want to stay after dinner.

Miss Mary’s for a cocktail and some dumplings perhaps; you’ve been riding hard and you deserve at little treat.

Bingo night at Big Muster Distilling in Dinner Plain with drinks from 4pm, food from 5:30pm and eyes down at 7:30pm.

Friday

Fresh off the Hume Highway and ready to go tear into everything the hill has to offer, you can’t really miss on this evening.

Miss Mary’s is the spot for a quick feed and a cocktail before you roll down to the Hotham Hotel, or Jack Frost, or the General.

DP Hotel has good pub fare, pizzas and vibes, $24 happy hour Jugs at Highplains.

Tsubo bar and restaurant in Dinner Plain has wicked Japanese food.

Alphutte Restaurant and Wine Bar or Club Wyndam for those who would like to pop the pinkie when they drink their martini.

Saturday

If you remember in ‘The Simpsons’ when Kent Brockman asks the expert on the news “without knowing the precise nature of the problem, would you say it’s time for our viewers to crack each other’s heads open and feast on the goo inside?’, he responds “Yes I would Kent”.

This is planning a Saturday night at Hotham.

Your guess is as good as mine, I wish you luck, may the odds be ever in your favour.

Sunday

You’ve called in sick to work for Monday cause you couldn’t quite stomach the trip home and you had one too many on the deck in the sun at the Snowbird this afternoon. Now you’ve got the howling fantods as the reality of your decision is starting to sink in, your partner is at home drunk and your neighbour is feeding your cat.

Your best option is to double down, steer into the skid and head to Dinner Plain for Amber’s Trivia at Highplains Hotel where you will find the friendliest staff night on the hill and steak and drink specials.

Happy Hour specials at Miss Mary’s include Vietnamese inspired espresso martini for $14.