My primary reason for posting was to notify people that there is a new addition, on the theory that a lot of people prefer staying at new rooms. The Hilton website doesn't have a picture of the new building yet (though it does mention it in the text), so I was intending my comments to be helpful in that regard.

But in answer to your question, I would probably stay at the ES again. I might consider Country Inn and Suites. I have no idea what the Country Inn is like, but both it and Hilton Homewood Suites, which were located side by side (I think--don't guarantee the "perfect recall" bit ) looked attractive.

I stayed at a Doubletree Club in Springdale last year or thereabouts, and would not stay there again. In all fairness, I had the last room Doubletree had available so shouldn't have expected much. Still, the breakfast, or whatever the Doubletree that day cared to call mediocre-food-served-with-an-attitude, didn't exactly inspire me to return. And various choices in Eureka Springs and Fayetteville, motel chains on down the pecking order, haven't been attractive.

I'm going to rephrase this and hope that I get it right this time. I would return to some towns specifically for the hotel. I would return to Hot Springs specifically for the ES in Hot Springs. The Hot Springs ES got it right, with an enthusiastic, welcoming attitude, not to mention some very authentic pancakes that I couldn't have but enjoyed seeing. Rogers, well, no, I wouldn't go to Rogers just to stay at the ES. That's not to say that I wouldn't stay at the Rogers ES should I find myself back in Rogers again.

BTW, one thing I failed to note in my OP: I did miss having grits on the buffet line at breakfast. (I'm trying to be reasonable about not having grits, but still. . . . )

My DH and I are probably becoming a little too pampered these days, thanks to Hilton, and we can't complain about that.

Yes, I agree with you that the Rogers ES is probably, if not certainly, the best choice of the area. It is comfortable and consistent. We found the hotel itself excellent--it is a fairly new ES after all--with atmosphere a trifle brusque but that is because it is very busy, presumably the number one choice in the area, and is presumably principally a business hotel. Impressions as to atmosphere can change several times a day, so I state this FWIW, with the caveat that others might well have entirely different impressions, and so might we on a subsequent visit.

P.S. You didn't get those doughnuts, did you? Are they affecting your opinion? (Joking!)