Number Of Real Estate Properties, Leased

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Represents the ownership interest in real estate properties expressed as a percentage.

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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://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 323
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (a)(1)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=114001798&loc=d3e33918-111571

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

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The number of states the entity operates in as of the balance sheet date.

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The number of units in a real estate property owned as of the balance sheet date.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Organization Real Estate Properties (Details)	6 Months Ended
Organization Real Estate Properties (Details)	Jun. 30, 2019 property	Jun. 30, 2019 hotel	Jun. 30, 2019 room	Jun. 30, 2019	Jun. 30, 2019 state	Dec. 31, 2018 hotel
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Number of Real Estate Properties	28	6
Equity method investment, ownership percentage				50.00%
Number of states in which hotels owned by the entity are located \| state					13
Number of hotel rooms owned \| room			8,100
Wholly Owned Properties
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Number of Real Estate Properties	25
Hotel property ownership interest (as a percent)	100.00%
Consolidated Properties
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Number of Real Estate Properties	26
Number of leased real estate properties	27
Unconsolidated Properties
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Number of Real Estate Properties	2					2
Equity method investment, ownership percentage				50.00%		50.00%
95% owned \| Partially Owned Properties [Member]
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Hotel property ownership interest (as a percent)	95.00%
50% owned \| Partially Owned Properties [Member]
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Number of Real Estate Properties	2
Hotel property ownership interest (as a percent)	50.00%