Debt (Mortgage Debt) (Details) (USD $)	6 Months Ended		0 Months Ended						0 Months Ended
	Jun. 15, 2012 hotels	Jun. 17, 2011	Feb. 07, 2012 JW Marriot Denver at Cherry Creek [Member]	Mar. 09, 2012 Lexington Hotel New York [Member] Number_of_renewal_terms	Jun. 15, 2012 Lexington Hotel New York [Member]	Mar. 23, 2012 Renaissance Waverly and Renaissance Austin [Member] hotels	Mar. 23, 2012 Renaissance Waverly [Member]	Mar. 23, 2012 Renaissance Austin [Member]	Mar. 09, 2012 Interest Rate Cap [Member] Lexington Hotel New York [Member]	Jun. 15, 2012 Interest Rate Cap [Member] Lexington Hotel New York [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Number of hotel properties secured by mortgage debt (in hotels)	11
Number of Rooms Acquired under Leasehold Interest (in hotels)	23
Mortgage Loans on Real Estate, Face Amount of Mortgages			$ 27,000,000	$ 170,400,000
Write off of Deferred Debt Issuance Cost			100,000
Mortgage loan maturity term (in years)				3 years
Number of extensions subject to subject to the satisfaction of certain terms and conditions and the payment of an extension fee ( in extensions)				2
Term loan, extension length (in years)				1 year
Libor rate based on month (in months)				1 month					1 month
Debt Instrument, Basis Spread on Variable Rate (as a percent)				3.00%	3.00%
Debt Instrument, Corporate recourse eliminated if hotel achieves specified yield test				25,000,000
Derivative, interest rate cap agreement term (in years)									3 years
Derivative, Bais Spread on Variable Interest Rate (as a percent)									1.25%
Notional Amount of Interest Rate Derivatives	934,000	0							900,000
Interest Rate Derivative Assets, at Fair Value										300,000
Numer of hotel portfolio properties sold (in hotels)						3
Debt Instrument, Secured Mortgage Debt assumed by buyer							$ 97,000,000	$ 83,000,000