Days after announcing their latest Guide, Relais et Châteaux just released their own iPhone app downloadable here.

This interesting initiative reinforces the trend of hotels and restaurant’s guides to publish more and more of their contents and their offers through new media.

The app itself is pretty good, and you will notice the polish design according to the association guideline : Luxe and simplicity. 480 destinations from 56 countries are listed and you can search by using the localization from the iPhone or search by name. Each destination is very documented with full list of services available and prices. You can even book..by telephone !.

Well it’s not really what we would expect from an iPhone app where we would have appreciate the possibility to book online directly from the app. This would have made this app not only a basic destination directory but also a useful app.