Cabana boy

Cabana boy

A cabana boy is a male attendant (boy in this sense) performing 'personal services' to the guests of a hotel etc., operating from a nearby "cabaña" (American Spanish for cabin; compare cabin boy), notably on a beach. A pool boy performs the same duties at a swimming pool.

Cabana boys in fiction

Literature and Motion pictures

*Enrique Salvatore in Legally Blonde
*in the novel Montauk by the Swiss writer Max Frisch (1974)
*Jeffrey Willis in "The Flamingo Kid"
*Nathaniel Sullivan in The fantastic holiday of Amanda Hamilton

Video game

*in The Curse of Monkey Island and The Siege of Plunder

ee also

*Page (servant)

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]


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