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Organization
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2021
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Organization Organization
DiamondRock Hospitality Company (the “Company” or “we”) is a lodging-focused real estate company that owns a portfolio of premium hotels and resorts. Our hotels are concentrated in key gateway cities and in destination resort locations, and the majority of our hotels are operated under a brand owned by one of the leading global lodging brand companies (Marriott International, Inc. or Hilton Worldwide). We are an owner, as opposed to an operator, of the hotels in our portfolio. As an owner, we receive all of the operating profits or losses generated by our hotels after we pay fees to the hotel managers and hotel brands, which are based on the revenues and profitability of the hotels.

As of March 31, 2021, we owned 31 hotels with 10,103 guest rooms, located in the following markets: Atlanta, Georgia; Boston, Massachusetts (2); Burlington, Vermont; Charleston, South Carolina; Chicago, Illinois (2); Denver, Colorado (2); Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Fort Worth, Texas; Huntington Beach, California; Key West, Florida (2); New York, New York (4); Phoenix, Arizona; Salt Lake City, Utah; San Diego, California; San Francisco, California (2); Sedona, Arizona (2); Sonoma, California; South Lake Tahoe, California; Washington, D.C. (2); St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands; and Vail, Colorado. Subsequent to March 31, 2021, we sold the Frenchman's Reef & Morning Star Marriott Beach Resort (“Frenchman's Reef”) located in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. See Note 3 for further discussion of the sale. Frenchman's Reef has been closed since September 2017 as a result of damage caused by Hurricane Irma.

We conduct our business through a traditional umbrella partnership real estate investment trust, or UPREIT, in which our hotel properties are owned by our operating partnership, DiamondRock Hospitality Limited Partnership, or subsidiaries of our operating partnership. The Company is the sole general partner of our operating partnership and owns 99.6% of the limited partnership units (“common OP units”) of our operating partnership. The remaining 0.4% of the common OP units are held by third parties and executive officers of the Company. See Note 5 for additional disclosures related to common OP units.

Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic

In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, a global pandemic. The virus spread throughout the United States and globally. As a result of the pandemic, government mandates and health official recommendations, the overall demand for lodging has materially decreased. We suspended operations at 20 of our 30 previously operating hotels for a portion of 2020. For the three months ended March 31, 2021, four of our 30 previously operating hotels were closed for all or a portion of the quarter.

We have taken aggressive steps to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic's operational and financial impacts on our business, as described in our consolidated financial statements contained within our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 1, 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a material adverse impact on our operations and financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2021. The severity and duration of the COVID-19 pandemic cannot be reasonably estimated at this time, but we expect it will continue to have a material adverse impact on our results of operations, financial position and cash flow in 2021.

Demand at our leisure-focused hotels has improved in the latter part of 2020 and the first quarter of 2021. Demand at our other hotels, however, remains at historically low levels. Several markets throughout the country experienced a resurgence of COVID-19 case counts during the recent winter months and reimplemented or strengthened closures, quarantines, and social distancing requirements. The availability and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines, as well as other public health and geopolitical factors, are likely to impact the timing, pace, and extent of a lodging demand recovery.
As of March 31, 2021, the Company had unrestricted cash of $99.8 million and $300.0 million of borrowing capacity on our senior unsecured credit facility.