Organization And Description Of Business	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2011
Organization And Description Of Business [Abstract]
Organization And Description Of Business	1. Organization and Description of Business MHI Hospitality Corporation (the "Company") is a self-managed and self-administered real estate investment trust ("REIT") that was incorporated in Maryland on August 20, 2004 to own full-service upper-upscale and upscale hotels located in primary and secondary markets in the Mid-Atlantic and Southern United States. The hotels operate under well-known national hotel brands such as Hilton, Crowne Plaza, Sheraton and Holiday Inn. The Company commenced operations on December 21, 2004 when it completed its initial public offering ("IPO") and thereafter consummated the acquisition of six hotel properties ("initial properties"). Substantially all of the Company's assets are held by, and all of its operations are conducted through, the Operating Partnership. For the Company to qualify as a REIT, it cannot operate hotels. Therefore, the Operating Partnership, which is owned 76.9% by the Company as of December 31, 2011, leases its hotels to a subsidiary of MHI Hospitality TRS Holding, Inc., MHI Hospitality TRS, LLC, (collectively, "MHI TRS"), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Operating Partnership. MHI TRS has engaged a hotel management company, MHI Hotels Services, LLC ("MHI Hotels Services"), to operate the hotels under a management contract. MHI TRS is treated as a taxable REIT subsidiary for federal income tax purposes. Significant transactions occurring during the current and two prior fiscal years include the following: On February 9, 2009, the indirect subsidiary of the Company, which is a member of the joint venture entity that owns the Crowne Plaza Hollywood Beach Resort, in which The Carlyle Group ("Carlyle") maintains a 75.0% equity interest, borrowed $4.75 million from the Carlyle entity that is the other member of such joint venture (the "Carlyle Affiliate Lender"), for the purpose of improving the Company's liquidity. The interest rate and maturity date of the loan are tied to a note that is secured by a mortgage on the property. In June 2008, the joint venture that owns the property had purchased a junior participation in a portion of the mortgage loan from the lender. The amount of the loan from the Carlyle Affiliate Lender approximates the amount the Company contributed to the joint venture to enable the joint venture to purchase its interest in the mortgage loan. The Company makes monthly payments of interest and is required to make principal payments equal to 50.0% of any distributions it receives from the joint venture. On February 19, 2009, the Company entered into a third amendment to its credit agreement with BB&T, as administrative agent and lender, to address certain financial covenants including the Company's total leverage ratio. The amendment establishes new methodologies for valuing the Company's existing hotel properties under renovation and modifies certain other aspects of the original credit agreement. In addition to waiving potential covenant defaults in 2008, the amendment increases the Company's interest rate spread for its variable LIBOR-based interest rate by 1.125% establishing a new spread range from 2.75% to 3.25% based on the Company's total leverage ratio and adds a new one hundred basis point spread for any prime rate loans made under the facility. It also eases the Company's total leverage ratio test by increasing the Company's total maximum permitted leverage from 55.0% to 62.5% of the total value of the Company's assets; establishes new limitations on cash distributions that the Company may pay to stockholders to a level necessary to maintain the Company's REIT qualification, until such time as the Company meets certain liquidity and other tests; requires the Company to add the Company's hotel property in Laurel, Maryland to the credit agreement's borrowing base; and provides for fixed valuation of certain of the Company's hotel properties, for purposes of determining compliance with various financial covenants, through April 2010. On May 18, 2009, the Company entered into a fourth amendment to its credit agreement with Branch Banking & Trust Company ("BB&T"), as administrative agent and lender, dated May 8, 2006, modifying the minimum tangible net worth covenant and waiving compliance with respect to such covenant for the quarter ended March 31, 2009. Subject to certain conditions, the fourth amendment permits the Company to pay in any fiscal year a dividend in an amount minimally necessary to maintain the Company's REIT status, provided that no dividend generally may be paid during the first three quarters of such fiscal year. Notwithstanding this limitation, the Company was permitted to pay the dividend declared on or about April 20, 2009. If certain liquidity thresholds and other conditions are met, the Company may be able to declare and pay additional cash dividends in any fiscal year during the term of the credit agreement. On December 1, 2009, the Company issued 2,132,680 shares of common stock at $1.60 per share pursuant to a rights offering. The Company received gross proceeds of approximately $3.4 million, the proceeds of which, after payment of fees and expenses associated with the offering, were used for additional working capital. On June 4, 2010, the Company entered into a fifth amendment to its credit agreement with BB&T, as administrative agent and lender, to address the sufficiency of the borrowing base. The amendment revises the methodology used to value the Company's existing hotel properties in the borrowing base and modifies certain other aspects of the credit agreement, as amended, including fixing the interest rate spread for the variable LIBOR-based interest rate at 4.00% and a minimum LIBOR of 0.75%. The amendment converts the facility to non-revolving, eliminates the Company's ability to re-borrow principal paid in the future and establishes minimum repayments equal to 50% of excess cash flow, as defined in the agreement, payable quarterly. Pursuant to the amendment, the Company is required to fund reserves for insurance and real estate taxes as well as a reserve for the replacement of furniture, fixtures and equipment equal to 3.0% of gross room revenues. The amendment also modifies the fixed charge covenant, eliminates the leverage covenant, places limits on capital expenditures and requires prepayments from a portion of the proceeds of future equity offerings of up to $21.7 million. In the event that the Company makes prepayments totaling $21.7 million, the excess cash flow prepayment requirement will terminate. The amendment allows the Company to pay additional dividends in any fiscal quarter, subject to the existing cap of 90% of the prior year's funds from operations ("FFO") provided certain liquidity thresholds and other conditions are met. The amendment provides for a contingent extension of the maturity date for one year to May 2012, provided that certain valuation and other criteria are met, including payment of an extension fee and an extension or refinancing of the Jacksonville mortgage. On April 18, 2011, the Company entered into a sixth amendment to the credit agreement. Among other things, the amendment: (i) extends the final maturity date of the credit facility to May 8, 2014; (ii) provides that no additional advances may be made and no currently outstanding advances subsequently repaid or prepaid may be re-borrowed; (iii) adjusts the release amounts with respect to secured hotel properties; (iv) reduces the additional interest from 4.00% to 3.50% and removes the LIBOR floor of 0.75%; and (v) adjusts certain financial covenants including restrictions relating to payment of dividends. In connection with the amendment, the Company reduced the outstanding balance on its existing credit facility by approximately $22.7 million. On April 18, 2011, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the "Securities Purchase Agreement") with Essex Illiquid, LLC and Richmond Hill Capital Partners, LP (collectively, the "Investors"), under which the Company issued and sold to the Investors in a private placement 25,000 shares of the Company's Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (the "Preferred Stock"), and a warrant (the "Warrant") to purchase 1,900,000 shares of the Company's common stock, par value $0.01 per share, for a purchase price of $25.0 million. The Company used the net proceeds from the issuance of the Preferred Stock and the Warrant to partially prepay the amounts owed by the Company under its credit agreement. On April 18, 2011, the Company entered into an agreement with Essex Equity High Income Joint Investment Vehicle, LLC, pursuant to which the Company has the right to borrow up to $10.0 million on or before December 31, 2011 (the "Bridge Financing"). The principal amount borrowed bears interest at the rate of 9.25% per annum, payable quarterly in arrears and will mature on the earlier of April 18, 2015 or the redemption in full of the Preferred Stock. On June 30, 2011, the Company entered into an agreement with TowneBank to extend the maturity of the mortgage on the Crowne Plaza Hampton Marina until June 30, 2012. Under the terms of the extension, the Company will make monthly principal payments of $16,000. Interest payable monthly pursuant to the mortgage was increased to LIBOR plus additional interest of 4.55% and a minimum total rate of interest of 5.00%. The Company also pledged $750,000 in cash collateral held by the lender in an interest-bearing account. On August 1, 2011, the Company entered into agreements with PNC Bank, National Association, in its capacity as trustee of the AFL-CIO Building Investment Trust, to extend the maturity of the mortgage on the Crowne Plaza Jacksonville Riverfront until January 22, 2013. During the extension, and pursuant to the loan documents, the interest rate applicable to the mortgage loan is fixed at 8.0% and the lender has waived certain covenants requiring the borrower to further pay down principal under certain circumstances. In order to effect the extension, and pursuant to the loan documents, the Company tendered to the lender the sum of $4.0 million as principal curtailment of the mortgage loan, thus reducing the mortgage loan's current outstanding principal amount to $14.0 million, and the lender waived certain covenants requiring the Company to further pay down principal under certain circumstances. On August 5, 2011, the Company obtained a 10-year, $7.5 million mortgage with Bank of Georgetown on the Holiday Inn Laurel West hotel property. The mortgage bears interest at a rate of 5.25% per annum for the first five years. After five years, the rate of interest will adjust to a rate of 3.00% per annum plus the then-current 5-year U.S. Treasury bill rate of interest, with a floor of 5.25%. The mortgage provides for level payments of principal and interest on a monthly basis under a 25-year amortization schedule. Proceeds of the mortgage were used to pay down a portion of the Company's indebtedness under its credit facility. On October 17, 2011, the Company obtained a 5-year, $8.0 million mortgage with Premier Bank, Inc. on its property in Raleigh, North Carolina. The mortgage bears interest at a rate of 5.25% per annum and provides for level payments of principal and interest on a monthly basis under a 25-year amortization schedule. The mortgage may be extended for an additional 5-year period, at the Company's option if certain conditions have been satisfied, at a rate of 3.00% per annum plus the then-current 5-year U.S. Treasury bill rate of interest. Proceeds of the mortgage were used to pay down a portion of the Company's indebtedness under its credit facility. On December 15, 2011, the Company obtained a 5-year, $12.2 million mortgage with Goldman Sachs Commercial Mortgage Capital, L.P. on the Sheraton Louisville Riverside in Jeffersonville, Indiana. The mortgage bears interest at a rate of 6.2415% per annum and provides for level payments of principal and interest on a monthly basis under a 25-year amortization schedule. Proceeds of the mortgage were used to pay down a portion of the Company's indebtedness under its credit facility. On December 21, 2011, the Company entered into an amendment to its $10.0 million bridge loan agreement with Essex Equity High Income Joint Investment Vehicle, LLC to extend the lender's loan commitment by 17 months through May 31, 2013. On December 21, 2011, the Company also amended the terms of the outstanding warrant issued by the Company in favor of the Investors. Pursuant to the warrant amendment, the exercise price per share of common stock covered by the warrant will be adjusted from time to time in the event of cash dividends upon common stock by deducting from such exercise price the per-share amount of such cash dividends. Such adjustment does not take in to account quarterly dividends declared prior to January 1, 2012.

1. Organization and Description of Business

MHI Hospitality Corporation (the "Company") is a self-managed and self-administered real estate investment trust ("REIT") that was incorporated in Maryland on August 20, 2004 to own full-service upper-upscale and upscale hotels located in primary and secondary markets in the Mid-Atlantic and Southern United States. The hotels operate under well-known national hotel brands such as Hilton, Crowne Plaza, Sheraton and Holiday Inn.

The Company commenced operations on December 21, 2004 when it completed its initial public offering ("IPO") and thereafter consummated the acquisition of six hotel properties ("initial properties"). Substantially all of the Company's assets are held by, and all of its operations are conducted through, the Operating Partnership. For the Company to qualify as a REIT, it cannot operate hotels. Therefore, the Operating Partnership, which is owned 76.9% by the Company as of December 31, 2011, leases its hotels to a subsidiary of MHI Hospitality TRS Holding, Inc., MHI Hospitality TRS, LLC, (collectively, "MHI TRS"), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Operating Partnership. MHI TRS has engaged a hotel management company, MHI Hotels Services, LLC ("MHI Hotels Services"), to operate the hotels under a management contract. MHI TRS is treated as a taxable REIT subsidiary for federal income tax purposes.

Significant transactions occurring during the current and two prior fiscal years include the following:

On February 9, 2009, the indirect subsidiary of the Company, which is a member of the joint venture entity that owns the Crowne Plaza Hollywood Beach Resort, in which The Carlyle Group ("Carlyle") maintains a 75.0% equity interest, borrowed $4.75 million from the Carlyle entity that is the other member of such joint venture (the "Carlyle Affiliate Lender"), for the purpose of improving the Company's liquidity. The interest rate and maturity date of the loan are tied to a note that is secured by a mortgage on the property. In June 2008, the joint venture that owns the property had purchased a junior participation in a portion of the mortgage loan from the lender. The amount of the loan from the Carlyle Affiliate Lender approximates the amount the Company contributed to the joint venture to enable the joint venture to purchase its interest in the mortgage loan. The Company makes monthly payments of interest and is required to make principal payments equal to 50.0% of any distributions it receives from the joint venture.

On February 19, 2009, the Company entered into a third amendment to its credit agreement with BB&T, as administrative agent and lender, to address certain financial covenants including the Company's total leverage ratio. The amendment establishes new methodologies for valuing the Company's existing hotel properties under renovation and modifies certain other aspects of the original credit agreement. In addition to waiving potential covenant defaults in 2008, the amendment increases the Company's interest rate spread for its variable LIBOR-based interest rate by 1.125% establishing a new spread range from 2.75% to 3.25% based on the Company's total leverage ratio and adds a new one hundred basis point spread for any prime rate loans made under the facility. It also eases the Company's total leverage ratio test by increasing the Company's total maximum permitted leverage from 55.0% to 62.5% of the total value of the Company's assets; establishes new limitations on cash distributions that the Company may pay to stockholders to a level necessary to maintain the Company's REIT qualification, until such time as the Company meets certain liquidity and other tests; requires the Company to add the Company's hotel property in Laurel, Maryland to the credit agreement's borrowing base; and provides for fixed valuation of certain of the Company's hotel properties, for purposes of determining compliance with various financial covenants, through April 2010.

On May 18, 2009, the Company entered into a fourth amendment to its credit agreement with Branch Banking & Trust Company ("BB&T"), as administrative agent and lender, dated May 8, 2006, modifying the minimum tangible net worth covenant and waiving compliance with respect to such covenant for the quarter ended March 31, 2009. Subject to certain conditions, the fourth amendment permits the Company to pay in any fiscal year a dividend in an amount minimally necessary to maintain the Company's REIT status, provided that no dividend generally may be paid during the first three quarters of such fiscal year. Notwithstanding this limitation, the Company was permitted to pay the dividend declared on or about April 20, 2009. If certain liquidity thresholds and other conditions are met, the Company may be able to declare and pay additional cash dividends in any fiscal year during the term of the credit agreement.

On December 1, 2009, the Company issued 2,132,680 shares of common stock at $1.60 per share pursuant to a rights offering. The Company received gross proceeds of approximately $3.4 million, the proceeds of which, after payment of fees and expenses associated with the offering, were used for additional working capital.

On June 4, 2010, the Company entered into a fifth amendment to its credit agreement with BB&T, as administrative agent and lender, to address the sufficiency of the borrowing base. The amendment revises the methodology used to value the Company's existing hotel properties in the borrowing base and modifies certain other aspects of the credit agreement, as amended, including fixing the interest rate spread for the variable LIBOR-based interest rate at 4.00% and a minimum LIBOR of 0.75%. The amendment converts the facility to non-revolving, eliminates the Company's ability to re-borrow principal paid in the future and establishes minimum repayments equal to 50% of excess cash flow, as defined in the agreement, payable quarterly. Pursuant to the amendment, the Company is required to fund reserves for insurance and real estate taxes as well as a reserve for the replacement of furniture, fixtures and equipment equal to 3.0% of gross room revenues. The amendment also modifies the fixed charge covenant, eliminates the leverage covenant, places limits on capital expenditures and requires prepayments from a portion of the proceeds of future equity offerings of up to $21.7 million. In the event that the Company makes prepayments totaling $21.7 million, the excess cash flow prepayment requirement will terminate. The amendment allows the Company to pay additional dividends in any fiscal quarter, subject to the existing cap of 90% of the prior year's funds from operations ("FFO") provided certain liquidity thresholds and other conditions are met. The amendment provides for a contingent extension of the maturity date for one year to May 2012, provided that certain valuation and other criteria are met, including payment of an extension fee and an extension or refinancing of the Jacksonville mortgage.

On April 18, 2011, the Company entered into a sixth amendment to the credit agreement. Among other things, the amendment: (i) extends the final maturity date of the credit facility to May 8, 2014; (ii) provides that no additional advances may be made and no currently outstanding advances subsequently repaid or prepaid may be re-borrowed; (iii) adjusts the release amounts with respect to secured hotel properties; (iv) reduces the additional interest from 4.00% to 3.50% and removes the LIBOR floor of 0.75%; and (v) adjusts certain financial covenants including restrictions relating to payment of dividends. In connection with the amendment, the Company reduced the outstanding balance on its existing credit facility by approximately $22.7 million.

On April 18, 2011, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the "Securities Purchase Agreement") with Essex Illiquid, LLC and Richmond Hill Capital Partners, LP (collectively, the "Investors"), under which the Company issued and sold to the Investors in a private placement 25,000 shares of the Company's Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (the "Preferred Stock"), and a warrant (the "Warrant") to purchase 1,900,000 shares of the Company's common stock, par value $0.01 per share, for a purchase price of $25.0 million. The Company used the net proceeds from the issuance of the Preferred Stock and the Warrant to partially prepay the amounts owed by the Company under its credit agreement.

On April 18, 2011, the Company entered into an agreement with Essex Equity High Income Joint Investment Vehicle, LLC, pursuant to which the Company has the right to borrow up to $10.0 million on or before December 31, 2011 (the "Bridge Financing"). The principal amount borrowed bears interest at the rate of 9.25% per annum, payable quarterly in arrears and will mature on the earlier of April 18, 2015 or the redemption in full of the Preferred Stock.

On June 30, 2011, the Company entered into an agreement with TowneBank to extend the maturity of the mortgage on the Crowne Plaza Hampton Marina until June 30, 2012. Under the terms of the extension, the Company will make monthly principal payments of $16,000. Interest payable monthly pursuant to the mortgage was increased to LIBOR plus additional interest of 4.55% and a minimum total rate of interest of 5.00%. The Company also pledged $750,000 in cash collateral held by the lender in an interest-bearing account.

On August 1, 2011, the Company entered into agreements with PNC Bank, National Association, in its capacity as trustee of the AFL-CIO Building Investment Trust, to extend the maturity of the mortgage on the Crowne Plaza Jacksonville Riverfront until January 22, 2013. During the extension, and pursuant to the loan documents, the interest rate applicable to the mortgage loan is fixed at 8.0% and the lender has waived certain covenants requiring the borrower to further pay down principal under certain circumstances. In order to effect the extension, and pursuant to the loan documents, the Company tendered to the lender the sum of $4.0 million as principal curtailment of the mortgage loan, thus reducing the mortgage loan's current outstanding principal amount to $14.0 million, and the lender waived certain covenants requiring the Company to further pay down principal under certain circumstances.

On August 5, 2011, the Company obtained a 10-year, $7.5 million mortgage with Bank of Georgetown on the Holiday Inn Laurel West hotel property. The mortgage bears interest at a rate of 5.25% per annum for the first five years. After five years, the rate of interest will adjust to a rate of 3.00% per annum plus the then-current 5-year U.S. Treasury bill rate of interest, with a floor of 5.25%. The mortgage provides for level payments of principal and interest on a monthly basis under a 25-year amortization schedule. Proceeds of the mortgage were used to pay down a portion of the Company's indebtedness under its credit facility.

On October 17, 2011, the Company obtained a 5-year, $8.0 million mortgage with Premier Bank, Inc. on its property in Raleigh, North Carolina. The mortgage bears interest at a rate of 5.25% per annum and provides for level payments of principal and interest on a monthly basis under a 25-year amortization schedule. The mortgage may be extended for an additional 5-year period, at the Company's option if certain conditions have been satisfied, at a rate of 3.00% per annum plus the then-current 5-year U.S. Treasury bill rate of interest. Proceeds of the mortgage were used to pay down a portion of the Company's indebtedness under its credit facility.

On December 15, 2011, the Company obtained a 5-year, $12.2 million mortgage with Goldman Sachs Commercial Mortgage Capital, L.P. on the Sheraton Louisville Riverside in Jeffersonville, Indiana. The mortgage bears interest at a rate of 6.2415% per annum and provides for level payments of principal and interest on a monthly basis under a 25-year amortization schedule. Proceeds of the mortgage were used to pay down a portion of the Company's indebtedness under its credit facility.

On December 21, 2011, the Company entered into an amendment to its $10.0 million bridge loan agreement with Essex Equity High Income Joint Investment Vehicle, LLC to extend the lender's loan commitment by 17 months through May 31, 2013.

On December 21, 2011, the Company also amended the terms of the outstanding warrant issued by the Company in favor of the Investors. Pursuant to the warrant amendment, the exercise price per share of common stock covered by the warrant will be adjusted from time to time in the event of cash dividends upon common stock by deducting from such exercise price the per-share amount of such cash dividends. Such adjustment does not take in to account quarterly dividends declared prior to January 1, 2012.