We like to occasionally stay in this historic hotel, walk to restaurants, relax in pretty Eureka Springs. When we arrived they were testing the fire alarms throughout the building, excruciating noise every few seconds, all day. The desk clerk was non-committal about how much longer it would be happening, was pretty rude and unhelpful about it, and was finally convinced to move us to the sister hotel in a comparable room. As that was happening, the fire alarm tech came through and explained how they working and how much longer it likely would take. He was nice and seemed to know his job well. We chose to stay at Basin Park, take a walk until the testing finished, and it worked out fine. The hotel seemed to have no policies or compensation or vouchers in place to deal with the day-long issue, and although they knew the testing day a week in advance, we were not warned. The restaurant and spa was closed all day, but guests could unknowingly book a room. Weird. There were so many ways to communicate with us and warn us, but those were used continuously to try to sell us activities and spa services instead.