We just got our first photobook this past May and I was very happy with the purchase and the experience. If anything I found I had trouble finding the 36 photos to fill the book. We stopped at a lot of photo opportunities on our 7 night cruise but DH is a pain about it, he doesn't like lines or characters. We went with this option for two reasons - 1. as just stated, getting DH to wait in lines for characters is a pain and so we found that we never really had enough digitals to justify the digital purchase 2. The mad rush to pick up the USB at shutters is completely avoided with the photo book, you just personalize your book at a kiosk and then it gets mailed to your home a few weeks later.
I've gotten to the point with cruises that if you take all of those digital photos, after a while you're just like meh, all the photos are the same... at least with the photo book you get high quality, hard cover product out of the whole ordeal.
there are themed pages, like one page is a
castaway cay day, another is a pirate night, the quality of the drawings inside make it look like a professional scrapbook with high quality images of the ship as well
I would show you photos but I'm moving my house on Friday and the photo book is packed somewhere in one of the boxes in my house Lol