Earlier, we featured a select few of our favorite Small Luxury Hotels properties in Europe. This week we’re looking in the other direction, and have pulled out a few notable and unique SLH properties in Asia and The Indian Ocean that are definitely going on our Hyatt hit list.

World of Hyatt recently joined up with Small Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH) – a collaboration of over 500 independent boutique properties around the world. World of Hyatt members will soon earn points and elite status credit at certain Small Luxury Hotels properties.

It remains to be seen what type of availability will open up for World of HyattHyatt's free nights and point redemptions, but it’s likely most, if not all, of these popular properties will be available for points bookings.

If you’re needing extra Hyatt points, Hyatt is running a generous 60,000 point, introintroductory promotion on its new co-branded Chase card, for new cardholders who spend $3,000 in the first three months and at least $6,000 in the first six months. More info here.

Hyatt has yet to announce the specific properties, so for now, we will cross our fingers and wait.

Asia

The Small Luxury Hotels Asian portfolio is its second largest after Europe, at 73 hotels across China, Japan, Mongolia, South Korea and Southeast Asia. However, for World of Hyatt members, the biggest draw will be the boutique properties in Indonesia and the continental southeast, as there are no less than seven Hyatt properties in China alone. Add to that an astonishing 297 Marriott/Ritz-Carlton properties in Asia and 86 Hilton hotels and resorts, and those booking onmaking bookings using points definitely have options!