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{{Short description|Type of male attendant}}
{{confuse|Cabin boy}}
{{Redirect|Pool boy|film|The Pool Boys}}{{Notability|date=July 2024}}
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<ref>{{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}}</ref> operating from a nearby ''[[Cabana (structure)|cabaña]]'' ([[Spanish language|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.<ref>[https://dot-job-descriptions.careerplanner.com/CABANA-ATTENDANT.cfm careerplanner.com Cabana] </ref>
==Notable cabana boys in fiction==
===Literature===
*in the 1974 novel ''[[Montauk (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 (Australian TV series)|Satisfaction]]''
* [[Chandler Bing]] ([[Matthew Perry]]) in ''[[Friends (TV series)|Friends]]''
* Ramon ([[Carlos Jacott]]) in ''[[Seinfeld]]''
* Zak ([[Paul Michael Robinson]]) in ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996 TV series)|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)]]'' [[Randy Disher|Lieutenant Randy Disher]] is mockingly dubbed a "Cabana Boy" of his superior, [[Leland Stottlemeyer|Captain Leland Stottlemeyer]], by the criminal Dale the Whale.
==See also==
*[[Butler]]
*[[Page (servant)]]
*[[Groom (profession)]]
*[[Valet]]
==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]
[[Category:Personal care and service occupations]]
[[Category:Domestic workers]]