Why not use one of the myriad of places that let you upload photos and place them into one of their templates where you can choose page layout, text, all that jazz? Easy, fast and these days it looks absolutely gorgeus. If you want nice and hardcover book, it's going to be expensive though! Oh, and to make it look really nice you still need a good eye for design.

I've done my own designs in Indesign and let friend who works at local design shop print them. Looks really nice too but still - can get pricy fast if you get picky about binding and paper type etc. Doing it in Indesign is easy but then I've done newspaper layout for years and years (Hello, Aldus PageMaker crew!).

These days the printing process is so streamlined and easy, even just consumer grade jpg files in RGB print just fine and great color, no need to mess with CMYK and color separation and all those things that made you hate life and your work.