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Exhibit 10.18

AMENDMENT

This AMENDMENT to the EXECUTIVE EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT effective as of
November 1, 2001, (Employment Agreement), by and among MeriStar Hospitality
Corporation (the Company), and MeriStar Hospitality Operating Partnership,
LP . (the Partnership), and Paul W. Whetsell (the Executive), is hereby
entered into on this 20th day of November 2002 by and among the parties.

For good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which
are hereby acknowledged by Executive, the Company, and the LLC, the parties
each agree to amend the Employment Agreement as follows:

Section 4(d)(ii) of the Employment Agreement is hereby deleted and
replaced, in its entirety as follows:

(ii) Executive shall be granted annually, on May 1 of 2002, 2003 and 2004,
pursuant to the Companys Profits-Only Operating Partnership Units (POPs)
Plan, a minimum of 75,000 POPs and a maximum of 225,000 POPs as determined by
the Board. The POPs shall vest equally on the first, second and third
anniversary of the date of grant. Annual POPs grants thereafter shall be at
the discretion of the Board. The Company or the Partnership will pay the
executive a distribution on each POP, while such POPs are outstanding, equal
to, and at the same time as, distributions made to common operating partnership
units of the Partnership.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Amendment
effective as of the date first above written.

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|EXECUTIVE: |                      | MERISTAR HOSPITALITY CORPORATION, INC.
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|           |                      |                                        |                                                                                                          |                                                         
|By:        | /s/ Paul W. Whetsell |                                        | By:                                                                                                      | /s/ Christopher L. Bennett                              
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|           | Paul W. Whetsell     |                                        |                                                                                                          | Name: Christopher L. Bennett                            
|           |                      |                                        |                                                                                                          | Title: Senior Vice President
        and General Counsel
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|           |                      |                                        |                                                                                                          |                                                         
|           |                      |                                        | MERISTAR HOSPITALITY OPERATING PARTNERSHIP, LP
By: MeriStar Hospitality Corporation, its general partner
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|           |                      |                                        | By:                                                                                                      | /s/ Christopher L. Bennett                              
|           |                      |                                        |                                                                                                          |                                                         
|           |                      |                                        |                                                                                                          | Name: Christopher L. Bennett                            
|           |                      |                                        |                                                                                                          | Title: Senior Vice President
        and General Counsel