Next month Hyatt will devalue its award chart adding more price levels within each category so that there are 78 different price points, with top hotels becoming up to 67% more costly on some nights. This goes into effect May 20th.

That’s not enough, though. In advance of those changes, Hyatt is still doing its annual moves of hotels between categories .

Category changes also go into effect May 20, 2026, at 8 a.m. Central time

You can make future bookings before then at the current rate to lock those prices in

You can book hotels now that are going down in price and get the differencein points back

Hyatt Regency Aruba

In total 136 hotels are changing category – several sites are saying that 113 are going up and 23 going down, but the number is actually 112 hotels moving up in category and 24 moving down.

And in a sign that the world – or at least one particular building in Chicago – may have gone insane, Hotel du Louvre, Park Hyatt London ; Andaz 5th Avenue ; and Hyatt Regency Aruba are all going up…