It was the weekend of the Talladega races and also Alabama had a home game and I was told that nothing was available within 50 miles of Birmingham...but we had appointments to view homes in the area ...so I kept trying over the internet to reserve a room with no luck. I had a Birmingham phone book so I started calling the hotels directly...and I should have known better but I went ahead and booked with the Delux Inn. When we got there the people walking around the area looked like they had crawled out from under a rock...very scary mean looking people...looked like a haven for dope dealers and murderers...well anyway..the room was filty...the carpet had dirt so embedded that you couldn't tell what it's original color was...the toilet was stopped up...the bath tub was dirty..I had asked for a non-smoking room and it smelled like someone with a two pack a day habit had just stayed there....I sprayed a whole can of disinfectant over the room...After calling the front desk for 3 hours I finally got someone to answer..I told them that the toilet was stopped up..she said she would tell "him"..well he never showed up...we were afraid our car would be broken into over night...we didn't leave the room for dinner in fear that we'd be mugged..at 7:00am the next morning.. we left .. never to return!









