Acquisitions of Hotel Properties (Details Textual) (USD $)	12 Months Ended		0 Months Ended	1 Months Ended			1 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010	Feb. 16, 2011 Argonaut Hotel [Member]	Apr. 06, 2011 Westin Gaslamp Quarter [Member]	Apr. 07, 2011 Monaco Seattle [Member]	May 03, 2011 Mondrian Los Angeles [Member]	May 26, 2011 Viceroy Miami [Member]	Jun. 08, 2011 W Boston [Member]	Feb. 16, 2011 Minimum [Member] Argonaut Hotel [Member]	Feb. 16, 2011 Maximum [Member] Argonaut Hotel [Member]
Acquisition of Hotel Properties (Textual) [Abstract]
Total amount in which company acquired			$ 84,000,000	$ 110,000,000	$ 51,200,000	$ 137,000,000	$ 36,500,000	$ 89,500,000
Total number of guest rooms	3,812		252	450	189	237	148	235
Amount of Investments in available cash for acquisition			42,000,000
Amount of which acquisition made in first mortgage loan	42,000,000	91,070,000	42,000,000
Ground lease Base Rent			1,200,000
Percentage of revenue in initial years									8.00%	12.00%
Percentage of revenue in later years									12.00%	14.00%
Percentage of food and beverage and other department revenue			4.00%
Renovation expenses incurred by seller				25,000,000
Reimbursement of renovation expenses incurred by seller				8,600,000
Key money liability							3,000,000
Period on which management fee expense term of the agreement							10 years
Acquisition of hotel properties (Textual) [Abstract]
Hotel acquisition costs	$ 3,392,000	$ 6,581,000