The howard hotel winner of the customer care thistle award 2006 is a 5 luxury boutique hotel in edinburgh city centre the hotel building is a traditional scottish georgian townhouse dating back to 1820 renovated in 2006 this city hotel has a total of 18 rooms over 5 floors of which 5 are suites the hotel includes a lobby a 24 hour reception with a hotel safe a lift and a cloakroom consistently classified as one of the aas top 200 hotels in britain and ireland and recently awa