Surprisingly Good
I really have nothing bad to say about this hotel; I ding them a point on cleanliness only because the rooms appear not to have been redone recently, so there's a bit of wear here and there. But they will give the government rate government employees on personal travel, which made it an excellent value for our visit to the University of Montana. The staff was very pleasant and helpful.
Perhaps the biggest surprise was the hotel restaurant. The Tapas-based menu was interesting, and everything we tried, from fish tacos to pork won-tons to a small portion of steak, was cooked perfectly and served by an attentive wait staff. The "stack", a pile of home-cooked potato chips smothered nacho-style with bacon, tomatoes and multiple premium cheeses, was far better than I'm able to make it sound here. We returned there for the second night of our visit just because we wanted to try some more of the menu items. The soups of the day -- a cream of mushroom the first night, a potato-leek the second night -- were excellent. Seriously, this was one of the best affordable hotel restaurants I've ever eaten in. Yeah, I've had better in $250-a-night big-city hotels with famous-chef restaurants, but given this low-key context, it was amazingly good. Also note that, at least at the time of our visit, the bar offered $6 pitchers of microbrew beer during happy hour. And these were big, four or five pint pitchers. Given that a single glass was $4, it is cheaper to order a pitcher even if you only expect to have a second pint.
This was the only time I've ever been to Missoula, so I can't compare it to other hotels in that city. But of the dozens of hotels I've stayed at over the years in the $100-a-night price range, this really is one of the best I've experienced.