This was one of the best hostels I've ever stayed in. Spotlessly clean, excellent facilities and a great location in Bergamo (2 mins walk from train station, 5 mins from town centre 'citta bassa'). We stayed overnight en route to Verona for the opera. The owner/manager collected us from the airport for an extra €10.. worth every penny as we arrived late in the evening on a Friday and were too tired to be dealing with public transport in a foreign country! The owner had very limited English but enough to communicate with us and give us all the information we needed about getting around the town. The 'citta alta' is well worth a visit for a few hours but Academia Carrera is missable unless you're very interested in medieval art... the staff followed us around the whole time which was very aggravating (I promise we did not look suspicious!) The opera was superb and worth the trip but next time we will save up and pay the extra for a direct flight to Verona as we had huge difficulties with delayed trains, delayed flights and lack of buses and taxis on the Sunday when we were travelling back to England. If we return to Bergamo again we would definitely stay in Abaco, a great base!
