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SCHEDULE 14A INFORMATION
 
PROXY STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 14(a) OF THE SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
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DiamondRock Hospitality Company
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DIAMONDROCK HOSPITALITY COMPANY
6903 ROCKLEDGE DRIVE
SUITE 800
BETHESDA, MARYLAND 20817
 
AUTHORIZE A PROXY BY INTERNET - www.proxyvote.com
Use the Internet to transmit your voting instructions and for electronic delivery of information up until 11:59 P.M. Eastern Time the day before the cut-off date or meeting date. Have your proxy card in hand when you access the web site and follow the instructions to obtain your records and to create an electronic voting instruction form.
 
   
 
ELECTRONIC DELIVERY OF FUTURE STOCKHOLDER COMMUNICATIONS
If you would like to reduce the costs incurred by DiamondRock Hospitality Company in mailing proxy materials, you can consent to receiving all future proxy statements, proxy cards and annual reports electronically via e-mail or the Internet. To sign up for electronic delivery, please follow the instructions above to authorize a proxy using the Internet and, when prompted, indicate that you agree to receive or access stockholder communications electronically in future years.
 
    
 
 
AUTHORIZE A PROXY BY PHONE - 1-800-690-6903
Use any touch-tone telephone to transmit your voting instructions up until 11:59 P.M. Eastern Time the day before the cut-off date or meeting date. Have your proxy card in hand when you call and then follow the instructions.
 
    
 
 
AUTHORIZE A PROXY BY MAIL
Mark, sign and date your proxy card and return it in the postage-paid envelope we have provided or return it to DiamondRock Hospitality Company, c/o Broadridge, 51 Mercedes Way, Edgewood, NY 11717.
                 
TO VOTE, MARK BLOCKS BELOW IN BLUE OR BLACK INK AS FOLLOWS:           
      DMRCK1   KEEP THIS PORTION FOR YOUR RECORDS
 
 
 
          DETACH AND RETURN THIS PORTION ONLY
THIS PROXY CARD IS VALID ONLY WHEN SIGNED AND DATED.
 
                         
DIAMONDROCK HOSPITALITY COMPANY   For
All		   Withhold
All		   For All
Except		  
To withhold authority to vote for any individual nominee(s), mark “For All Except” and write the number(s) of the nominee(s) on the line below.
                                                                   
  The Board of Directors recommends a vote for each of the nominees listed below in Proposal 1 and for Proposal 2.   o   o   o    
                     
  Vote on Directors                    
                         
  1.  To elect seven directors to serve until the next Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their successors have been elected and qualified. The nominees are as follows:    
 
   
(01)   William W. McCarten         (05)   Maureen L. McAvey
(02)   Daniel J. Altobello              (06)   Gilbert T. Ray
(03)   Mark W. Brugger                (07)   John L. Williams
(04)   W. Robert Grafton		                  
 
 
                       
  Vote on Proposal           For   Against   Abstain
               
 
2.
To ratify the selection of KPMG LLP as the independent auditors for DiamondRock Hospitality Company for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2009.
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Note: Please sign exactly as your name or names appear(s) on this Proxy. When shares are held jointly, each holder should sign. When signing as executor, administrator, attorney, trustee or guardian, please give full title as such. If the signer is a corporation, please sign full corporate name by duly authorized officer, giving full title as such. If signer is a partnership, please sign in partnership name by authorized person.
 
                                   
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Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the 2009 Annual Meeting: The Notice of the 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and Proxy Statement, each dated as of March 3, 2009 and the 2008 Annual Report are available at www.proxyvote.com.
 

DIAMONDROCK HOSPITALITY COMPANY
PROXY SOLICITED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
FOR THE ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
TO BE HELD ON APRIL 30, 2009
The undersigned stockholder of DiamondRock Hospitality Company hereby acknowledges receipt of the Notice of the Annual Meeting of Stockholders and Proxy Statement, each dated March 3, 2009, the terms of which are incorporated by reference, and hereby appoints Michael D. Schecter and Sean M. Mahoney, and each of them, as attorneys-in-fact and proxies of the undersigned, with full power of substitution in each of them, to attend the Annual Meeting of Stockholders of DiamondRock Hospitality Company to be held at the Bethesda Marriott Suites Hotel, 6711 Democracy Boulevard, Bethesda, Maryland on Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. (local time), and at any and all postponements, continuations and adjournments thereof, to vote all of the shares of DiamondRock Hospitality Company that the undersigned may be entitled to vote at such meeting and otherwise to represent the undersigned at the meeting with all powers that the undersigned would possess if personally present, upon and in respect of the following matters and in accordance with the following instructions, and revokes any proxy previously given with respect to the meeting.
UNLESS A CONTRARY DIRECTION IS INDICATED, THIS PROXY WILL BE VOTED FOR ALL NOMINEES LISTED IN PROPOSAL 1 AND FOR PROPOSAL 2, AS MORE SPECIFICALLY DESCRIBED IN THE PROXY STATEMENT. IF SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS ARE INDICATED, THIS PROXY WILL BE VOTED IN ACCORDANCE THEREWITH. FOR ANY AND ALL OTHER MATTERS AS MAY PROPERLY COME BEFORE THE MEETING OR ANY POSTPONEMENT, CONTINUATION OR ADJOURNMENT THEREOF, THIS PROXY SHALL BE VOTED WITH DISCRETIONARY AUTHORITY BY THE PROXY HOLDER.