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Income Taxes (Details) (USD $)
In Thousands, unless otherwise specified
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014
Dec. 31, 2013
Dec. 31, 2012
Current:      
Federal $ (244)us-gaap_CurrentFederalTaxExpenseBenefit $ (323)us-gaap_CurrentFederalTaxExpenseBenefit $ (50)us-gaap_CurrentFederalTaxExpenseBenefit
State (1,543)us-gaap_CurrentStateAndLocalTaxExpenseBenefit (1,439)us-gaap_CurrentStateAndLocalTaxExpenseBenefit (1,381)us-gaap_CurrentStateAndLocalTaxExpenseBenefit
Deferred:      
Federal 572us-gaap_DeferredFederalIncomeTaxExpenseBenefit 830us-gaap_DeferredFederalIncomeTaxExpenseBenefit 64us-gaap_DeferredFederalIncomeTaxExpenseBenefit
State 70us-gaap_DeferredStateAndLocalIncomeTaxExpenseBenefit 53us-gaap_DeferredStateAndLocalIncomeTaxExpenseBenefit (2)us-gaap_DeferredStateAndLocalIncomeTaxExpenseBenefit
Income tax expense (1,145)us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit (879)us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit (1,369)us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit
Differences between provision for income taxes from the amount of income tax determined by applying the applicable U.S. statutory federal income tax rate to pretax income from continuing operations      
Expected federal tax benefit at statutory rate (47,906)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationIncomeTaxExpenseBenefitAtFederalStatutoryIncomeTaxRate (40,271)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationIncomeTaxExpenseBenefitAtFederalStatutoryIncomeTaxRate (14,952)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationIncomeTaxExpenseBenefitAtFederalStatutoryIncomeTaxRate
Tax impact of passthrough entities 45,842rlj_IncomeTaxReconciliationIncomeLossOfPassthroughEntities 37,230rlj_IncomeTaxReconciliationIncomeLossOfPassthroughEntities 22,618rlj_IncomeTaxReconciliationIncomeLossOfPassthroughEntities
Expected tax benefit at TRS (2,064)rlj_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefitAtTRS (3,041)rlj_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefitAtTRS 7,666rlj_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefitAtTRS
Change in valuation allowance 2,203us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationChangeInDeferredTaxAssetsValuationAllowance 3,612us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationChangeInDeferredTaxAssetsValuationAllowance (8,741)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationChangeInDeferredTaxAssetsValuationAllowance
State income (expense) benefit, net of federal tax benefit (1,273)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationStateAndLocalIncomeTaxes (1,345)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationStateAndLocalIncomeTaxes 595us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationStateAndLocalIncomeTaxes
Impact of rate change 42us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationChangeInEnactedTaxRate (94)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationChangeInEnactedTaxRate 146us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationChangeInEnactedTaxRate
Other permanent items (418)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationOtherAdjustments (443)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationOtherAdjustments (394)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationOtherAdjustments
Impact of acquired tax attributes (5)rlj_IncomeTaxReconciliationAcquiredTaxAttributes 361rlj_IncomeTaxReconciliationAcquiredTaxAttributes (361)rlj_IncomeTaxReconciliationAcquiredTaxAttributes
Impact of provision to return 370rlj_IncomeTaxReconciliationProvisionToReturn 71rlj_IncomeTaxReconciliationProvisionToReturn (280)rlj_IncomeTaxReconciliationProvisionToReturn
Income tax expense $ (1,145)us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit $ (879)us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit $ (1,369)us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit
Common distributions      
Income Taxes      
Ordinary income (as a percent) 100.00%rlj_OrdinaryIncomeDistributionsPaidPercentage
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100.00%rlj_OrdinaryIncomeDistributionsPaidPercentage
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Return of capital (as a percent) 0.00%rlj_ReturnOfCapitalDistributionsPaidPercentage
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= us-gaap_CommonStockMember
0.00%rlj_ReturnOfCapitalDistributionsPaidPercentage
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= us-gaap_CommonStockMember
 
Capital gains (as a percent) 0.00%rlj_CapitalGainDistributionsPaidPercentage
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0.00%rlj_CapitalGainDistributionsPaidPercentage
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Total (as a percent) 100.00%rlj_DistributionsPaidPercentage
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100.00%rlj_DistributionsPaidPercentage
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