In Transit Blog: Pros Get the Shots You Can Share

Many travelers these days feel that going on vacation and failing to document it on Instagram, Flickr or any number of other photo-sharing sites is much the same as forgetting to send a postcard might have been a generation ago. It's a little antisocial.

This presents a problem: When you're on vacation, having the fun you want so much to document, who can snap your photos? A number of hotels have volunteered, offering photographers or videographers as perks that come with various packages.

One such hotel, the Alma del Pacifico Beach Hotel & Spa, on the central Pacific coast of Costa Rica, enlists a professional photographer to capture guests learning to surf in a two-hour lesson with a package that also includes horseback riding, cocktails for two and a one-day car rental. Neophyte boarders can pick up the digital images on a disk.

In Puerto Rico, at the San Juan Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino, a concierge shoots 30-second videos of guests on the water slide, in the pool or at the beach, combines it with what videographers would call B-roll — slide-show-style stills of the island and the hotel — and uploads the result on YouTube as a digital postcard. The service is free.

And at least one hotel is selling a package that includes photos you may not want to share, at least not widely. The new Revere Hotel Boston Common in Boston has begun advertising a "Midnight Ride" package that includes a 90-minute photo session with Allana Taranto, who specializes in boudoir shots featuring women in lingerie. A makeup artist and a bottle of sparkling wine are thrown in, too. After you sleep in the next day — the deal comes with late checkout — you can scan the gallery of photos on a password-protected Web site. It's up to you whether you want to Tweet about it or not.

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