My new bride and I were on the last leg of our cross-country drive, and after having to drive a few extra miles beyond Butte (the Special Olympics were in town, and hotels were booked solid), we decided to try our luck in Deer Lodge. We were looking for the Super 8, as our AAA book had not yet been updated. We stopped in, booked a room, and went up to try to get a much needed rest. When we entered the room, we were greeted by a rather odd smell (and no, it wasn't cleaning products, as you'll see in a moment). OK, so it's an older hotel... I don't expect it to smell sparkly and new. Then, my bride uses the commode... finds that it has NOT been cleaned, and warns me not to sit down without "protection". Not only that, the bathroom floor shows signs of not being cleaned in a while. When she grabs a "fresh" hand towel off the rack, to dry her hands, she notes that the towel is dirty. Not just a little stain, but like someone wiped their dirty hands, neatly folded it, putting it back on the rack. She starts checking more towels, and better than half are stained and/or dirty. We call the front desk, and ask for more towels. The night manager apologizes, says she'll bring up clean towels. When she comes to our room, she asks if we'd like to be moved to another room, instead. We accept her offer, and hope that the next room will be cleaner (We were sorely disappointed). Same story... filthy towels, bath mat did not appear to have been laundered after the last guests, and then (being on full-alert for filth) my bride pulls back the covers on the bed, to reveal stains on the sheets and pillow cases.
She then calls to politely request that we not be charged for the room, as we will be leaving. I'm standing across the room, and I can hear the previously polite manager berating her for "messing up two rooms and now you're not STAYING??!?"

On our way out and when we returned the room key, she started to say something about our ingratitude or some such, and then tried to say something derogatory about my own home and housekeeping. I didn't care to listen... I was already out the door, and halfway back to the truck. My bride received the last of the insults as we were leaving. We headed on into Missoula, and stayed at the newly renovated (and spotlessly clean) La Quinta, for only a few dollars more.

My advice is, don't bother staying in Deer Lodge, unless absolutely necessary. Butte is less than 40 miles away, and has a wealth of better managed and maintained hotels to choose from (barring any large events being in town).

We stayed at this hotel on our way through Deer Lodge. It was formerly a Super 8 and recently was taken over by Rodeway Inn (part of Choice Hotels). We payed $71 total with AAA. We were pleasantly surprised when we cheked in at the size of the room. It had a kitchen with table, couch and tv in one room, then the bed and another tv in a seperate room. The front desk was cheery and helpful even though it was late at night when we arrived. The hotel was very clean. It is an older hotel and some of the furnishings are dated. But they are clean and show little wear. While we were there, they were preparing to install all new carpeting. The bed was very comfortable and the shower was strong with plenty of hot water. They have a complementary continantal breakfast which included pastries, hard boiled eggs. waffles (yes, waffles!) orange juice, coffee, tea and fresh fruit. I would definately recommend this hotel. It was nice when we stayed and it appears that Rodeway hs plans to make even more improvements.

I was driving from Idaho to Yellowstone and needed a hotel room before Butte. This hotel, which is now a Rodeway Inn, was the only decent place in town.

Good location- right off the highway, across the street from McDonalds, next to a gas station. The mountains are beautiful. We arrived right around sunset and it was so pretty.

We asked for a room on the first floor and got the first room by the office, it was a handicap room. It was nice and big (which one would expect). It was clean and comfortable.

I expected the place to be noisy, especially since we were next to the lobby- but it was fine.

The staff was VERY nice and helpful. We slept through breakfast, so I don't know how it was.

If I had to stay in Deer Lodge again, I would stay at the Rodeway Inn.

We stayed in the Super 8 August of 2003. It's clean and our room was quiet. It's close to the interstate and there is a 4-B's restaurant next door so we didn't even look at the continental breakfast. We will be staying there again this year.