The Ascend Hotel Collection by Choice Hotels International Inc. on Tuesday announced that The Waters at Hot Springs National Park would join its group of independent hotels and resorts.
The 62-room boutique hotel is located in the Hot Springs Central Avenue Historic District.
As part of the collection, it will participate in the Choice Privileges loyalty rewards program. Membership is free, and points can be redeemed for free nights, airline miles.
The hotel is owned by Bob Kempkes and Anthony Taylor, co-founders of the firm Taylor/Kempkes Architects of Hot Springs, and financial advisor Robert Zunick, also of Hot Springs.
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The Waters’ restaurant, The Avenue, is run by Le Cordon Bleu graduate and recent Arkansas Hospitality Association award winner Casey Copeland. The hotel also features Corinthian terracotta columns and a 1913 marble lobby that was once a doctor’s office that dispensed prescriptions for the therapeutic baths.
Other Choice Hotels hotel brands include Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Quality, Sleep Inn, Clarion, Cambria, MainStay Suites, Suburban Extended Stay Hotel, Econo Lodge and Rodeway, but those are not in the Ascend Hotel Collection.