Lots of amenities for a competitive price
Very clean and well kept. The place looked and felt more expensive than it was. Friendly, helpful staff who went above and beyond - it was as if I had my own personal valet. Convenient parking. The Conair white-noise maker at bedside was a nice touch. Poor construction work in the bathroom - there was a very visible hole in the wall behind the tissue dispenser. The bathtub has one of those controls which are confusing to use: No labels, not even icons to tell one how to get cold or hot water. The door to one of the stairwells had a defective door handle and was difficult to open. The second floor had no ice station; the guest laundry room took up that space. Two coin-op washers; two clothes dryers, and accessible 24 hours. Check in and check out were very painless and quick.
The location of the property can be inconvenient to navigate if coming or going from certain directions. It is located in front of a divided highway, with one side on a hill almost 100 feet higher than the motel side. This requires one to vector out one or two miles and make a U-turn. The U-turn at one end and the subsequent merge-in are sweet and effortless (but at the end of the two-mile trek); the U-turn at the other end requires sitting at a traffic signal...and it was *always* red. Always.
Microtel had a special deal during my visit: stay two or more nights, and get a discounted room rate. This meant a newly constructed building with flat screen television/queen bed/steam iron/hair dryer, hot breakfast in the morning and free beer, wine, snacks in early evening, jacuzzi spa in the swim area, a bbq pit in the picnic area cost only $2/night more than a much older motel a few miles up the road in a seedy neighborhood with reviews warning of bedbugs that charged for internet access and had only a pool and cold breakfast. Even without the discount, though, one gets a lot for the rate at Microtel.