A cabana boy is a male attendant who serves the guests of a hotel, large private estate, or luxury resort operating from a nearby cabaña (Spanish for cabin; compare cabin boy, a similar occupation aboard ships during the Age of Sail), often on a beach. A pool boy or pool attendant performs the same duties at a swimming pool. Duties may include: working with towels, swimsuits, robes, blankets, bathing caps, soap, umbrellas, beach chairs, launder, and may serve refreshments.careerplanner.com Cabana
Notable cabana boys in fiction
Literature in the 1974 novel Montauk by the Swiss writer Max Frisch Motion pictures Jeffrey Willis in The Flamingo Kid Enrique Salvatore in Legally Blonde Alan Riply in Forever Mine
Video games in The Curse of Monkey Island and The Siege of Plunder a single mission in Hitman: Blood Money, set in Del Mar, California
Television Brad Carlton in The Young and the Restless Cabana Boy (also known as Pool Boy) in MADtv'''s recurring skit "Cabana Chat" played by Bryan Callen John Cherland and Kirk Porter in Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants Sean (Dustin Clare) in Satisfaction Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry) in Friends Ramon (Carlos Jacott) in Seinfeld Zak (Paul Michael Robinson) in Sabrina, the Teenage Witch Brandon Walsh (Jason Priestley) in Beverly Hills, 90210 Bart Simpson in The Simpsons was once described by his sister Lisa Simpson as "the devil's cabana boy." In Monk (TV series)'' Lieutenant Randy Disher is mockingly dubbed a "Cabana Boy" of his superior, Captain Leland Stottlemeyer, by the criminal Dale the Whale.
See also Butler Page (servant) Groom (profession) Valet
References
External links "ON THE JOB: The former president's pool boy", Chris Colin, SF Gate, September 24, 2007