Cabana boy

Type of male attendant

A cabana boy is a male attendant who serves the guests of a hotel or large private estate, 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.^[1]

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.