i'm not saying this is the ritz... but as far as a $60 a night super 8 goes... it was dang nice enough. it was clean. it had breakfast. it had a nice night manager who was accommodating.
came into town to run the madison mini marathon, and the manager was super cool about letting the husband and i check out late on race day so we could come back after the race and shower up. we run a lot of races in a lot of towns and stay in a lot of hotels... and there are a lot of not-so-nice hotel managers that don't care why you're there and don't care if you want to shower. this guy was nice and suggested to ME that a late check out might be in order once he knew why i was staying in town. how rad is that?!
the room was clean. the bathroom was clean. there were plenty of linens. the location is near enough to downtown. if you are running in the madison mini, you are literally 5 minutes from the start line and finish line. you need not take any major highways to get to it, which is an awesome bonus.
my only complaint was the day staff at the front desk was a total flake. upon returning from the race, our door key somehow became demagnetized. it didn't open our room. we went to open it, and nothing. we returned to the desk and had the front desk personnel reprogram it three times. wouldn't have been a big deal if our room wasn't on the second floor at the end of the hall. she never suggested giving us another key... until i finally got fed up and suggested it myself. not sure english was her first language though, so maybe it was not entirely her fault.