Nifty250: the perfect gift for travellers

Instagram has become a great go-to platform for travellers sharing their journeys and, like most things in the digital age, they remain somewhere out there floating on the line. If you want an effortless, affordable, thoughtful gift this is it.

Nifty250 is a clever printing company based in Cape Town that links up to your Instagram profile so you can choose your favourite snaps and order them to print. Three days later the quality prints and memorable moments land at your door. Elementary stuff.

The vouchers are a great gift or you can arrange to have a personal selection of prints from your feed sent to the door of your loved one. Traditional Polaroid style prints, measuring 90x105mm, on lasting 250gram premium photo paper cost R4 a print and you need to order a minimum of 24. Including the R35 courier cost and some maths later and you’ve got a gift that costs R131.

I spent a good hour choosing my selection of images and decided to throw in some old-school photobooth-styled strips too. These cost R6 each and you need to order at least 16.

In the end I got 24 Polaroid snaps, 16 strips and spent R230 for my troubles. The prints are really great quality and great to display in your home to inspire more travel.