There is just 1 large space usually, and rooms coming off of that. The individual rooms don't have balconies. The large space will have a table and chairs or benches, and commonly hammocks. From the chairs you can lean over a rail and look at the ground and the beach and the people passing by. It's a white coral sand beach.
Kids walk up and down the beach trying to sell things to tourists.
They sell books often, or wax for waxing surfboards. They don't really want to just sell you a book, they want to trade 2 or more of your books for 1 of theirs, or trade 1 for 1 plus money. In any transaction they want their library to either remain unchanged in size, or to increase. They enjoy the trading probably more than the money. Fishermen walk along the beach selling their fish.