cabana boy
{{Short description|Type of male attendant}}
{{confuse|Cabin boy}}
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A cabana boy is a male attendant who serves the guests of a hotel, large private estate,{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}} or luxury resort{{Cite web |date=2015-08-06 |title=What It's Really Like to Be a Cabana Boy |url=https://www.afar.com/magazine/what-its-really-like-to-be-a-cabana-boy |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=AFAR Media |language=en}} 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.[https://dot-job-descriptions.careerplanner.com/CABANA-ATTENDANT.cfm 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
References
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External links
- [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/09/24/onthejob.DTL "ON THE JOB: The former president's pool boy", Chris Colin, SF Gate, September 24, 2007]