This was a clean, comfortable hotel with very friendly staff. The rooms are spacious - and quiet. The wifi - I'm guessing in response to a previous review - is now fast enough to handle streaming HD videos. Which is great, because the large CRT tv in my room's cable selection was very limited. To top things off - while they don't have a bar, you can buy bottles of beers for 2 to 2.50 at the front desk. This combined with being right by the highway and reasonable rates would warrant an easy 4 star review.
So - despite cheap beer, free popcorn and fast wifi - they lost the star for the abysmal 'gym'. One old treadmill and one elliptical in a tiny room. So, instead of getting my run in before I had to go to work in the morning, I logged my miles in the surrounding (very pleasant) neighborhood as the sun came up (there's a great hill and a few tiny parks that were fun to run through, large sidewalks and well marked streets). Fortunately, the runs were amazing, and the streets mostly well lit - but I would have been irate had I booked this room in the winter or if it was raining and I was stuck on the tredmill.
So If I'm back in Madison, I'll consider staying here again if the workout facilities are redone and expanded. If that doesn't matter to you - you really get a great room for you money here.