Originally Posted by gleff

Since you included the quote with the spacing that I added, even to the explanation World of Hyatt gave me I'll add a link to the source: https://viewfromthewing.com/hyatts-e...k-hyatt-tokyo/

Originally Posted by VFTW

However the real takeaway here is that Hyatt doesn’t have rules requiring hotels make a minimum percentage of their rooms available for redemption. This is in contrast to Marriott which requires a hotel designate a minimum percentage of its inventory as ‘standard’ rooms that are available for redemption (except at ‘all suite’ hotels, which do not have to do this).

This is a loophole that is wide enough to drive a truck through and increasingly hotels that prefer not to host award guests are figuring out how to game the program. Simply taking a room type out of inventory for long-term renovation means, apparently, not having to make rooms available on points. The correct approach ought to be of course that a hotel offers at least a minimum percentage of its active inventory – whatever number of rooms that is – for redemption. Period.