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JEFFREY D. SYMES
Senior Vice President
Chief Accounting Officer and Controller

June 18, 2014

VIA EDGAR
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
100 F Street, NE
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re:
FelCor Lodging Trust Incorporated
 
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013
 
File No. 1-14236
 
 
 
FelCor Lodging Limited Partnership
 
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013
 
File No. 333-39595-01
Ladies and Gentlemen:
On behalf of FelCor Lodging Trust Incorporated and FelCor Lodging Limited Partnership (collectively “FelCor”), we hereby file FelCor's response to comments contained in the letter from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Division of Corporation Finance; (the “Commission”) dated June 12, 2014. For your convenience, we have repeated each comment prior to the response.
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013
Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules, page 116
Schedule III - Real Estate and Accumulated Depreciation, page 109
1.
Please provide us with reconciliations of total cost of land, building and improvements, as well as the related accumulated depreciation in Schedule III, to the related amounts on the balance sheet and/or the related amounts in Note 3.






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June 18, 2014
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Please see below reconciliation:
Reconciliation of Note 3 to Schedule III
 
 
 
 
(in thousands)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Information as Included in Note 3:
 
 
 
 
 
 
December 31,
 
December 31,
 
 
2013
 
2012
 
 
 
 
 
Building and improvements

$
1,833,165


$
1,962,164

Furniture, fixtures and equipment
 
482,628

 
488,237

Land

234,447


248,614

Construction in progress
 
32,828

 
24,847

 
 
2,583,068

 
2,723,862

Accumulated depreciation
 
(929,801
)
 
(929,298
)
Investment in hotels, net of accumulated depreciation (per Balance Sheet and Note 3)
 
$
1,653,267

 
$
1,794,564

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Accumulated Depreciation components:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Accumulated Depreciation - Building and improvements
 (per Schedule III)
 
$
(698,146
)
 
$
(693,114
)
Accumulated Depreciation - Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment
 
(231,655
)
 
(236,184
)
Total Accumulated Depreciation (per Balance Sheet and Note 3)
 
$
(929,801
)
 
$
(929,298
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Reconciliation of Total Land, Building and Improvements per Note 3 to Schedule III:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Building and improvements (per Note 3)
 
$
1,833,165

 
$
1,962,164

Land (per Note 3)
 
234,447

 
248,614

Total Land, Building and improvements (per Note 3)
 
$
2,067,612

 
$
2,210,778

Rounding differences(a)
 
(4
)
 
(3
)
Total Land, Building and improvements (per Schedule III)
 
$
2,067,608

 
$
2,210,775


(a)    Rounding differences will be eliminated in future filings.

545 E. JOHN CARPENTER FREEWAY, SUITE 1300
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We acknowledge the following:

FelCor is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing;

staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; and

FelCor may not assert staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.

If any members of the staff have any questions concerning the above responses or desire further information or clarification in connection therewith, he or she should contact me at 972-444-4925.


Sincerely,

/s/Jeffrey D. Symes


Jeffrey D. Symes
Senior Vice President
Chief Accounting Officer and Controller


cc:
Michael C. Hughes, Chief Financial Officer, FelCor Lodging Trust Incorporated
 
Jonathan H. Yellen, General Counsel, FelCor Lodging Trust Incorporated
 
Robert W. Dockery, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.


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