Howard Hotel Edinburgh, winner of the 'customer care' Thistle Award of 2006, it is a 5 Star luxury Boutique hotel in Edinburgh city center.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 AA's Top 200 Hotels in Britain and Ireland and recently awarded a Scottish Boutique Hotel Special Commendation from the Scottish Hotel of the Year Awards 2007.The hotel offers a butler service to cover such day-to-day tasks as valeting, surfing the web, polishing shoes, taking care of dry-cleaning requirements, arranging dinner parties and organizing social itinerary, or other special requests.