Thanks for procrastination and a busy weekend (and company-imposed hotel $ budget), we were stuck booking a room at Microtel. The description on Orbitz mentioned a baby grand piano in the lobby - how bad could it be, right??
I have to say we were pleasantly surprised. The place was clean, though nowhere near fancy. The only beef I had was with the smell, characteristic of many other cheap hotel chains. Like, overdose of cleaner to get rid of whatever stinky smell the previous occupant left behind.
Everyone was pleasant and the breakfast was pretty decent although they made you eat it in the lobby. And on the 2nd morning we were there, they ran out of eggs for a long time. When I told the lady who was serving the area, she took about 20 minutes to come out with more...and she came out with THREE scrambled egg patties. I mean c'mon...did they run out? These were obviously frozen and merely microwaved. Three. At peak breakfast time. There were about 20 people eating breakfast and waiting for the same thing I was. Luckily, I saw her approach and snagged one.
All in all, a pretty great value. The clientele seems to consist of business people (probably constrained by the same budget we were) and young people.