This woman is on vacation, she just landed in Florida and she’s all alone on the beach. She decided to wait here on the beach until she could check in at the hotel. She notices a man who was watching her from a distance, then he came over and sat down next to her and even listened to her conversation she had on the phone with her sister.
He ended up walking away but he didn’t leave the area when another woman came up to talk to her and warned her about him. The woman wasn’t local and only stayed because she felt the man was very suspicious and she didn’t want anything to happen to the woman on vacation.
The woman on vacation ended up waiting inside the local bar and grille as soon as they opened. When you are traveling alone, it’s never a good idea to let that be known, never tell anyone you are from out of town because it makes you a target. If she couldn’t check in until later, couldn’t she just use stayed in the lobby of the hotel with her bags until check in time?