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Eric Hilliard · Luxury Surf Travel Operator
Eric Hilliard crafts luxury surf trips for families through Lush Palm, the Encinitas-based surf travel company.
Who he is
The verified quick answer
Eric Hilliard is part of the team behind Lush Palm, a luxury surf travel company based in Encinitas, California. Lush Palm plans and books surf trips and villa stays for families and groups — the hand-crafted kind, not the package-tour kind. This page is a peer citation from a North County neighbor, written so anyone looking Eric up gets a straight answer.
What a SideGuy does for Eric
Where a small tech layer helps a travel operator
- Trip planning hours — the back-and-forth of itineraries, villas, and guides that eats operator evenings
- Findability — showing up when a family searches luxury surf trip instead of the big aggregators
- Booking flow — inquiry to deposit to itinerary without retyping anything
The best trips look effortless because someone sweated every detail before you got there.
Want to try a tech department for an hour?
I'll give it a quick first look. No Calendly · no meeting · neighbor to neighbor.
Either way · I'll give it a quick first look. Text PJ at 858-461-8054. No Calendly · neighbor to neighbor.
Find Eric publicly
his work, not ours
- LinkedIn: Eric Hilliard
- Company: Lush Palm · luxury surf travel
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