Organization (Details)	Dec. 31, 2014 GuestRooms properties	Jul. 29, 2011 properties
Organization (Textual) [Abstract]
Number of hotels owned by the company	35us-gaap_NumberOfRealEstateProperties
Number of wholly owned real estate properties	29
Total number of guest rooms	6,948peb_NumberOfGuestRooms
Percentage of Operating Partnership units owned by company	99.70%
Percentage of Operating Partnership units owned by other limited partners	0.30%
Manhattan Collection Joint Venture [Member]
Organization (Textual) [Abstract]
Number of hotels owned by the company	6	6
Equity interest issued in a joint venture	49.00%	49.00%
Number of guest rooms in joint ventured real estate properties	1,775

Total number of guest rooms.

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Number of guest rooms in joint ventured real estate properties.

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Number of wholly owned real estate properties.

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The percentage of ownership of common stock or equity participation in the investee accounted for under the equity method of accounting.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 323

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 3

-Subparagraph (a)(1)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6382943&loc=d3e33918-111571

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The equity interest of noncontrolling shareholders, partners or other equity holders in consolidated entity.

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The parent entity's interest in net assets of the subsidiary, expressed as a percentage.

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The number of real estate properties owned as of the balance sheet date.

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