Shutterfly

During my trip to Boston last week the trainer of my course waxed lyrical about the joys of shutterfly, with particular reference to the photobooks.

Now I used to enjoy collating albums from important events or holidays, but since we've turned digital I've not bothered so much, mainly because I'm so lazy at getting round to getting photos printed out so I thought I'd investigate.

As shutterfly are a US based company I looked around for someone offering a similar service in the UK. Photobox, whom I've used several times before and always been impressed with, do offer photobooks but the choice of styles is non existant in comparison with Shutterfly.

As I couldn't find anyone else so decided to just go with Shutterfly and pay the shipping to the UK. So this week I've been working on a mini project getting a book compiled from our trip to New Zealand.

The interface is really nice and easy to use - I was really impressed. The finished book is now been sent into production so I'll let you know what the finished results are like when it turns up in a couple of weeks.

Quote of the day...

At Knowsley Safari Park... Bear in mind this is after seeing lions, tigers, monkeys, rhinos etc.

"Wow Mum! Look!" This is the most excited Tully'd been all day. I was surprised she was so excited about an ostrich...

"Mum, a chicken!" :S

Trip to Boston

I've been in Boston this week for a training course, held at the Hyatt Harborside at Logan airport. As airport hotels go it was ok - a little away from the terminal so you did at least feel like you'd left the airport behind. By far the best bit though was the view across the harbour to the city, and somehow I managed to blag an upgrade and get a harbor view room too!

Another plus aws that the water taxis stopped right outside the hotel so it was easy to hop on one and head into town -lucky really as there was nothing much to do at the hotel so I ended up going over every day.

As trips go this was quite a good one. Still glad to be home though.

Holiday

I know, I know. Tully has more than covered it already and everyone one other than me is bored senseless of reading about it... But I do feel compelled to put something on my blog too about it, purely because despite the weather doing it's best to ruin things it really was completely and utterly wonderful, and that is all down to the hotel.

I can't praise it enough - and also struggle to describe it. Clearly it is very kid friendly, but it doesn't feel like that is all there is to it. It actually felt rather grown up and relaxing, and that was the ambience that came across rather than it being all about the kids. I suspect it was because the kids were so well catered for that it meant they didn't need to be demanding attention from their parents. And, on the whole, all the kids there were extremely well behaved.
The adults only spa area was a perfect haven too (and yes, I did pop for a treatment - it would have been rude not to!). This was actually in the interconnected sister hotel next door, that also has a posh bar and restuarant we could use if we had chosen to. As it happened the food we got was so good we didn't feel the need to go next door - whilst the kids buffet catered more than happily for every childs needs and we got served some rather delicious grown up style food alongside it which kept everybody happy.

We were rather lucky in that I think we got one of the best rooms in the hotel. I'd chosen a Kitzsteinhorn apartment for us, which were in a seperate building to the main hotel connected via an underground tunnel (which we used rather a lot given the rain!). Ours was the left hand 1st floor balcony...


View 1 from our room...


View 2 from our room...


So, would I go back to Hotel Hagleitner? Certainly. Would I go back to another Kinderhotel for either skiing or in the summer? Definitely. Would I recommend either to anyone that has 1 or more children under the age of 8 or so? Absolutely!