Printed photo book recommendations?

Has anyone used an online service to get a photo book printed? We want to get three books printed of our wedding photos (one for us and one for each set of parents), so we want them to be nice quality, but not super expensive.

I'd used Photobox.co.uk in the past for regular prints and always been very happy with them, but I hadn't used them in over a year and last night I just had frustrating error after frustrating error (saying half my photos are too small or corrupt - neither of which is true! then not letting me login via ftp, arrgh), so I started looking elsewhere.

Apple's service through iPhoto is very good quality, I'm told, but the per page price is like 3x the photobox price and we can't really afford that for the amount of photos we have (60-75 photos, so 50 pages?).

Myphotobook.co.uk came up in a google search, but I've seen SHOCKINGLY BAD reviews of them online so I don't really want to use them now, either.

I know Truprint's photos used to be quite poor quality, so I'm a bit wary of their books being flimsy or off-colour...

Has anyone used an online service to print photobooks that they're happy with, in terms of price and quality? We don't need necessarily the cheapest place - if we have to spend an extra £10-20 for our wedding album, that's okay.

I haven't used them yet, but in my investigations, I've heard decent things about the quality of Vistaprint stuff. Their poshest photo books run less than £20, so it seems worth the risk to me!

I can not get enough of mixbook.com
You don't have to download any software, its all online. Plus you can fully customize it to look like a handmade scrapbook and they have the best templates.
Its the easiest to use and its run in the states so pretty cheap. I made a calendar and a book for about £18 at Christmas.

I've used both vistaprint & snapfish. The printing quality is good, but the customization is pretty weak.

I've also used Blurb, which is good if you are a designer. You have to download the software though if you are not, and it is more expensive and harder to use than mixbook.

My wife did one of these with Shutterfly and it turned out really nice.  She was able to customize it extensively, and was very happy with the result.  She thinks it was around £50, but well worth it for the amount of control she had over it and the final quality of the book.

Ooh thanks, guys! These are all new to me! With a cursory glance, I'm thinking Blurb might be the best fit for us, as we're a bit of control freaks when it comes to graphics design (mixbook just looked way too cutesy to my eyes, sorry) and I like that they stress colour management and have the InDesign integration. I don't mind downloading their software if it means my photos are kept locally til the end, so I'm going to give that a try this evening.

Thank you everyone!!

(oh and camasco, is there a UK Shutterfly I'm missing? All I could see is the US one)

I loved I mean loved http://www.albelli.co.uk/
I had a wedding album done for my MIL and the cover I had done was hard back black and white printed right on it.
I could arrange and add text and it was beautiful and the paper was thick and lovely!

If you have InDesign I would 100% go for Blurb. You wont need to download software, just a template and upload a high-res pdf. They are definitely the best for print & finish quality (though you will pay a little more).

(oh and camasco, is there a UK Shutterfly I'm missing? All I could see is the US one)

Emma (my wife) says, "You just go to Shutterfly.com and then they (long thoughtful pause) just ship it."  She's pretty cheap, so I can't imagine it was that expensive.   

p.s.  She also added, "It's awesome!"

 My Mom swears by Snapfish- I think the Gadget Show did a blurb on them and found they were the best site for quality and price.   

 My brother and SIL both did books for each other on that site and they turned out beautiful.  I plan to look at some of the other suggestions on here for my wedding photos but if I can't find anything better I'll stick with Snapfish.

I have real issues with green cast on Vista Print, I just think that both their materials and their printing is cheap and not good quality.
Photobox has taken a huge quality dive over the past year and I really wouldn't go with them either.

Blurb is really good I didn't use InDesign, I just use photoshop but their bookify ap works pretty well.

I loved I mean loved http://www.albelli.co.uk/

Blurb is really good I didn't use InDesign, I just use photoshop but their bookify ap works pretty well.

Thanks! I played with both Albelli and Blurb's Bookify app last night and I liked Blurb's interface for manipulating the photos and layouts better (I couldn't figure out how to rotate the photo spaces in Albelli or change the size or layout easily), so I put the whole thing together with that. It's looking like it'll be just under 40 pages so it actually works out cheaper than Photobox anyway, and I vastly prefer working locally to using a Flash tool anyway.

Now we just have to add the gazillion captions this weekend... buh!

If you have InDesign I would 100% go for Blurb. You wont need to download software, just a template and upload a high-res pdf. They are definitely the best for print & finish quality (though you will pay a little more).

I second vote for Blurb. Didn't use inDesign but a simple photo arranging software instead.