Impairment	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2016
Impairment Charges [Abstract]
Asset Impairment Charges [Text Block]	Impairment Charges Our hotels are comprised of operations and cash flows that can clearly be distinguished, operationally, and for financial reporting purposes, from the remainder of our operations. Accordingly, we consider our hotels to be components for purposes of determining impairment charges. We test for impairment whenever changes in circumstances indicate a hotel’s carrying value may not be recoverable. We conduct the test using undiscounted cash flows for the shorter of the hotel’s estimated hold period or its remaining useful life. When testing for recoverability of hotels held for investment, we use projected cash flows over its expected hold period. Those hotels held for investment that fail the impairment test are written down to their then current estimated fair value, before any selling expense, and we continue to depreciate the hotels over their remaining useful lives. In September 2016, we recorded a $20.1 million impairment charge for a hotel. The impairment charge was primarily based on both third-party offers to purchase the hotel and observable market data on a price per room basis from transactions involving hotels in similar locations (a Level 2 input under authoritative guidance for fair value measurements). In June 2016, we recorded a $6.3 million impairment charge for a hotel subsequently sold in the third quarter of 2016. The impairment charge was based on an accepted third-party offer to purchase the hotel (a Level 2 input under authoritative guidance for fair value measurements) at a price below our previously estimated fair market value for the property. In the third quarter of 2015, we determined that this hotel no longer met our investment criteria, and we recorded a $20.9 million impairment charge for this hotel at that time. The 2015 impairment charge was determined using Level 3 input under authoritative guidance for fair value measurements. For this estimate, we used a discounted cash flow analysis with an estimated stabilized growth rate of 3%, a discounted cash flow term of 5 years, a terminal capitalization rate of 8%, and a discount rate of 11%. We may record additional impairment charges if operating results of individual hotels are materially different from our forecasts, the economy and lodging industry weakens, or we shorten our contemplated holding period for additional hotels.

Impairment Charges

Our hotels are comprised of operations and cash flows that can clearly be distinguished, operationally, and for financial reporting purposes, from the remainder of our operations. Accordingly, we consider our hotels to be components for purposes of determining impairment charges.

We test for impairment whenever changes in circumstances indicate a hotel’s carrying value may not be recoverable. We conduct the test using undiscounted cash flows for the shorter of the hotel’s estimated hold period or its remaining useful life. When testing for recoverability of hotels held for investment, we use projected cash flows over its expected hold period. Those hotels held for investment that fail the impairment test are written down to their then current estimated fair value, before any selling expense, and we continue to depreciate the hotels over their remaining useful lives.

In September 2016, we recorded a $20.1 million impairment charge for a hotel. The impairment charge was primarily based on both third-party offers to purchase the hotel and observable market data on a price per room basis from transactions involving hotels in similar locations (a Level 2 input under authoritative guidance for fair value measurements).

In June 2016, we recorded a $6.3 million impairment charge for a hotel subsequently sold in the third quarter of 2016. The impairment charge was based on an accepted third-party offer to purchase the hotel (a Level 2 input under authoritative guidance for fair value measurements) at a price below our previously estimated fair market value for the property. In the third quarter of 2015, we determined that this hotel no longer met our investment criteria, and we recorded a $20.9 million impairment charge for this hotel at that time. The 2015 impairment charge was determined using Level 3 input under authoritative guidance for fair value measurements. For this estimate, we used a discounted cash flow analysis with an estimated stabilized growth rate of 3%, a discounted cash flow term of 5 years, a terminal capitalization rate of 8%, and a discount rate of 11%.

We may record additional impairment charges if operating results of individual hotels are materially different from our forecasts, the economy and lodging industry weakens, or we shorten our contemplated holding period for additional hotels.