The frontier spirit in modern comfort welcome to the hampton inn abilene ride back into the past or embrace the future in abilene with a heart for the texas frontier spirit and a vision for modern cultural expression the hampton inn hotel in abilene is located less than ten minutes south of historic downtown abilene and within walking distance of the mall of abilene get a unique glimpse of the past at frontier texas a multimedia facility where you can interactively meet comanche warrio