B&B Casa Dolce Casa

There are three rooms, all with a private bathroom with shower and hairdryer, a TV with DVD player and wi-fi. Primula has a double bed or two singles and a small side terrace, and outside high season it can also be booked for single use. Ciclamino has a four-poster bed and a large panoramic terrace where breakfast can be served, but it does not take a third bed. Stella Alpina has a wood-burning fireplace, a bow window facing the mountains where breakfast can be served in the room, a bathroom with whirlpool bath-shower and a large side terrace; a folding bed can be added.

The flats have equipped kitchens with crockery, pans, microwave and fridge-freezer, and the price includes water, electricity and gas but not breakfast, which can be added for a supplement if requested the day before. Anemone is a one-bedroom flat for four, with a double bedroom, a living room with a double sofa bed, Smart TV, washing machine and panoramic terrace. Bucaneve is a studio for two with a double sofa bed, its own entrance and a large shared terrace, and it is let only from June to September.

Breakfast is a buffet of home-made cakes and tarts, croissants, cheese and cured meats from the Da Paganì Antichi Sapori shop in Serina, jams from the Il Mongetto farm, Bergamo honey, seasonal fruit and Illy coffee. There are products for guests with coeliac disease or intolerances, to be requested in advance.

The breakfast room, heated by a wood stove, has a library, a film collection and board games, and guests can also use a fully equipped kitchen. Together with the Serina shop the B&B offers platters of cheese and cured meats with Bergamo wine, to be enjoyed in the breakfast room or in your room, and delivery of cheese to the house; on request it prepares the stay for a marriage proposal, an anniversary or a birthday.

Wi-fi is free throughout the house and guests can use the terrace with sun deck. Pets are allowed for a supplement which, according to the property's page on VisitBergamo, the province's tourism portal, is charged from the second animal per room or flat.

For children up to three the website offers a cot, for a supplement, in the Primula room and the Anemone flat; in Stella Alpina a folding bed can be added for a third guest. The VisitBergamo page instead lists the cot in Ciclamino and Stella Alpina, and a free extra bed in Stella Alpina: what you agree with the owner is what counts. The same page mentions free parking in public spaces; the B&B's website does not mention parking.

Rooms and flats are available from 3 pm to 8 pm on the day of arrival and must be vacated by 10.30 am. The website counts July and August, long weekends, Easter and the Christmas holidays up to Epiphany as high season: during those periods Primula is not let for single use.

You book by phone or WhatsApp on 333 6189592, by email or through the bed-and-breakfast.it portal, which the website gives as its online booking channel. Guests get a discount at the partner businesses listed below.

The website gives an hour from Bergamo and an hour and a half from Milan. Leave the A4 motorway at Bergamo coming from Venice, or at Dalmine coming from Milan; follow the signs for the Brembana valley and at the mouth of the valley turn off for Val Serina, towards Serina and then Oltre il Colle. The B&B is at the start of the village, with the sign on the left.

Without a car there is Bergamo Trasporti bus line B, which climbs from Bergamo into Val Serina with a compulsory change at Zogno and runs Monday to Saturday only: the piazza Tiraboschi stop is about 260 metres from the B&B as the crow flies, based on its position on OpenStreetMap.

The house is at the Serina end of the main village, and services are a short walk away. As the crow flies, the Tiraboschi grocery in the main village is about 40 metres away, the Raieri butcher 90, the petrol station 130, the Postamat cash machine 190, the church of San Bartolomeo 200, the Pro Loco tourist office 210, the pharmacy and the A&M Market under 300 metres and the Banco BPM branch about 310.

For cross-country skiing the B&B suggests taking the SP27 provincial road towards Zambla Alta and parking at the Passo di Zambla, where the trail starts: the first three kilometres, the easiest, lead to Pian della Palla. As the crow flies the Colle di Zambla is about 2.5 kilometres away and Pian della Palla about 1.1. The Zorzone Mineral Museum is about 1.2 kilometres away and the Monte Alben Adventure Park, a partner of the B&B, about 2.4.