136. Solo Travel Tips & Points Strategies with Kelsi from PointSisters

Points Talk®: Your Travel Dreams, Made Possible by Points

Alex, Pam and Jess

Places & Travel, Education, Society & Culture, How To

4.9 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Jess and Alex are joined by Kelsi Sullivan, one half of PointSisters on Instagram, who has mastered the art of solo travel using points and miles. Kelsi brings a unique perspective shaped by her international upbringing and her discovery of the financial independence community. Her journey from casual miles collector to strategic points optimizer shows how solo travelers can thrive in the points and miles world.

Throughout the conversation, Jess, Alex, and Kelsi explore how solo travelers can approach earning and redeeming points while traveling alone, safety considerations for solo female travelers, and specific strategies for maximizing value without a traditional "player two." Kelsi shares concrete examples from her adventures in Tanzania, India, Sri Lanka, and beyond, revealing how she stretches her points across multiple international trips each year.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Do you feel like this hobby only works if you have a dedicated player to like a spouse or a partner?
0:05.2	Well, we're happy to say that that is not the case at all.
0:08.9	Listen in today as our special guests talks all about how to kill it in points of miles as a
0:12.9	solo traveler.
0:14.3	Welcome to points talk with the travel mom squad.
0:17.4	We are three moms who've discovered how to leverage credit card welcome offers to get hundreds of
0:22.5	thousands of dollars of travel expenses for nearly free. We've used credit card points of miles to take
0:27.8	vacations to places like Hawaii, Paris, Greece, Maldives, Japan, and so much more. And the best part,
0:35.0	we each still have 800 plus credit scores. Imagine being able to take the
0:39.3	vacation of your dreams for nearly free. It's totally possible and we're here to show you how.
0:45.2	Hey, I'm Alex. And I'm Jess. Let's Talk Points. Today we have a very special guest joining us, Kelsey
0:52.8	Sullivan, who is one half of Point Sisters on
0:56.9	Instagram, is here to talk all about solo travel. And Devin, Kelsey's sister, the other half of
1:05.4	Point Sisters, was previously on episode 70, talking all about her honeymoon on points with the around the world ticket,
1:14.7	but RIP around the world, it is no more. So we're not going to, we're not going to go back
1:22.4	to that episode because, I mean, you can go back and hear about Devin's amazing honeymoon.
1:26.6	You just won't be able to use. Yeah, she has some great stuff.
1:28.4	You just won't be able to use the strategy that she used to book something similar for
1:32.9	yourself.
1:33.8	Point sisters, I don't know, if you've ever messaged us on Instagram or on our Facebook
1:38.0	group and said, I have all these points.
1:39.8	I don't want to book this myself.
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