Full scale hotel development and management company. Darling hotels is a newer company stemming from a line of family operated businesses from the 1930's. Started by the current owners great grandparents Eileen and Arthur Darling as an ice cream stand that later evolved into a hot dog stand and then into a restaurant and banquet facility; Eileen Darling's of Seekonk. They got into the hotel business with Town and Country Motel and then later in 1968 built Ramada. In 2001, the Hampton Inn Seekonk MA was built forming the current "Darling Hotels" corporation. In 2009, Hampton Inn & Suites Cape Cod was built in West Yarmouth MA. In 2012, Ramada changed franchises and names and became the Clarion Inn, with a banquet facility the Grand Rose Ballroom.