I made the reservation 2 months in advance of our trip knowing that it's very hard to find a reservation in the area surrounding the Alabama/LSU game. Late game and after game traffic made us arrive closer to 12:30am. We were SO tired and ready for a good night's sleep. We arrived only to find our reservation was given away and the hotel was booked up, as well as every other decent hotel in the area!! I called Hotels.com and they were very dilegent in trying to help me, but there wasn't a room to be had anywhere close. I highly recommend Hotels.com because they went to bat for me, but we ended up just driving all the way home that night since there were no rooms available.
This was a birthday trip for my husband, and it really was very disappointing.