My husband and I took a short road trip to Madison for Memorial Day weekend. I found a decent price online for the Edgewater and was thrilled to have a lakeview room. The hotel is old, not the nicest I've been in, but its history was not lost on us. The common areas smacked of old school glamour. We loved having drinks on the Pier, overlooking Lake Mendota on a nice night. Rooms were very clean, but I have a weird thing about ugly bedspreads and lawdy, those bedspreads could've used a facelift. Sorry, just me. I would stay again, though. Location really can't be beat.