Company: PEB
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001474098-25-000096
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Company: Pebblebrook Hotel Trust
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form: S-8
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<div align='center'>As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 27, 2025</div>

### UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

#### Washington, D.C. 20549
| FORM S-8                   |
| REGISTRATION STATEMENT     |
| UNDER                      |
| THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 |

#### Pebblebrook Hotel Trust
<div align='center'>(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</div>

| Maryland                                 
 (State or other jurisdiction of          
 incorporation or organization)           |     | 27-1055421          
 (IRS Employer       
 Identification No.) |
| 4747 Bethesda Avenue, Suite 1100         
 Bethesda, MD                             
 (Address of Principal Executive Offices) |     | 20814               
 (Zip Code)          |

| Pebblebrook Hotel Trust 2009 Equity Incentive Plan |
| (Full title of the plan)                           |

#### Jon E. Bortz

#### Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

#### 4747 Bethesda Avenue, Suite 1100

#### Bethesda, MD 20814
<div align='center'>(Name and address of agent for service)

(240) 507-1300

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

With copies to:

Mark W. Wickersham, Esq.
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Riverfront Plaza, East Tower
951 E. Byrd Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219-4074
(804) 788-8200</div>

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See definition of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

| Large accelerated filer |     | ☒ |     | Accelerated filer         |     | ☐ |
| Non-accelerated filer   |     | ☐ |     | Smaller reporting company |     | ☐ |
|                         |     |   |     | Emerging growth company   |     | ☐ |

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards