The Choice set of brands form an extremely variable chain. Different properties within a few miles of each other with similar prices are often very different experiences. My general advice is to search the area where you intend to travel for prices, then studiously compare reviews by actual travelers of the subset of properties in that area that are within your price range to determine if each merits further consideration. While there is seemingly some intent to position each sub-brand of Choice (e.g. Clarion, Comfort, Quality, Econo, etc.) to different price points or demographics, my personal experience has been that the variability with each sub-brand is so wide as to make such distinctions nearly irrelevant.

Breakfast of some form is usually available, but in some places that means a couple of yesterday's muffins, lukewarm coffee and a couple pieces of fruit that have been picked up and rejected by the last 50 people before you. In other places that free breakfast will be a set of trays with hot items, multiple kinds of fruit and juice on real china with real silverware. You can find gems with diligent research but also many truly bad properties. IHMO, "Consistently inconsistent" is the only way to describe Choice.

That said, I think I would have given a nearly identical response were you to ask me the same question about Best Westerns, save for the part about sub-brands.