We give a simple method to estimate the number of distinct copies of some classes of spanning subgraphs in hypergraphs with a high minimum degree. In particular, for each
$k\geq 2$
and
$1\leq \ell \leq k-1$
, we show that every
$k$
-graph on
$n$
vertices with minimum codegree at least
\begin{equation*} \left \{\begin {array}{l@{\quad}l} \left (\dfrac {1}{2}+o(1)\right )n & \text { if }(k-\ell )\mid k,\\[5pt] \left (\dfrac {1}{\lceil \frac {k}{k-\ell }\rceil (k-\ell )}+o(1)\right )n & \text { if }(k-\ell )\nmid k, \end {array} \right . \end{equation*}
contains
$\exp\!(n\log n-\Theta (n))$
Hamilton
$\ell$
-cycles as long as
$(k-\ell )\mid n$
. When
$(k-\ell )\mid k$
, this gives a simple proof of a result of Glock, Gould, Joos, Kühn, and Osthus, while when
$(k-\ell )\nmid k$
, this gives a weaker count than that given by Ferber, Hardiman, and Mond, or when
$\ell \lt k/2$
, by Ferber, Krivelevich, and Sudakov, but one that holds for an asymptotically optimal minimum codegree bound.