Tivoli Estela Golf & Lodges is a new luxury resort concept from Minor Hotels, located in Póvoa de Varzim, on Portugal’s northern coast near Porto. Designed to offer a premium leisure experience, it combines accommodation, wellness, sports, and lifestyle services in a unique coastal setting.

As a technology partner of Minor Hotels, Nonius was selected to deliver a fully integrated digital infrastructure for the resort, ensuring a guest experience and operational backbone fully aligned with the group’s high hospitality and technology standards.

The project covers a wide range of resort facilities, including 80 lodges and apartments, 18-hole golf course, restaurant, bars, outdoor pools, 2 padel courts, wellness centre, kids club and other public spaces, all connected through a robust and scalable technology ecosystem.

The Challenge: Delivering a Unified Technology Infrastructure Across an Entire Resort

Tivoli Estela Golf & Lodges required a technology platform capable of supporting a modern, premium guest experience while ensuring operational efficiency and long-term scalability across the entire resort.

The challenge involved:

• Delivering seamless connectivity across multiple buildings and outdoor areas
• Supporting high-density Wi-Fi usage throughout the property
• Providing a modern and personalized in-room entertainment experience
• Ensuring reliable voice and Internet services
• Implementing a future-ready network infrastructure capable of supporting all resort operations
• Centralising technology management while maintaining high performance and reliability

The solution needed to combine hospitality technology with enterprise-grade network infrastructure, fully integrated into a single ecosystem.

The Solution: End-to-End Integrated Technology by Nonius

Nonius designed and deployed a comprehensive technology platform combining guest entertainment, connectivity, communications, and infrastructure solutions across the entire resort.

TV & Streaming

The resort was equipped with:

• TV & Streaming: Interactive in-room entertainment platform, embedded on LG Hospitality TVs, delivering hotel information, branded content, and seamless access to streaming applications and Cast functionality.
• TV Headend: Centralised content distribution system ensuring reliable delivery of live TV channels and curated content across all rooms with high stability and quality.

Wi-Fi & Networks

To ensure high-performance connectivity throughout the property, Nonius deployed:

• Wi-Fi & Networks: Enterprise-grade wireless and switching infrastructure based on RUCKUS technology, delivering high-performance, secure and scalable connectivity across the entire resort, including indoor and outdoor areas.
• Internet Access: Guest Internet Access platform providing secure, seamless and fully managed connectivity with authentication, bandwidth control and a consistent branded login experience across the property.

Voice & Communications

Nonius also implemented the resort’s Voice solution, ensuring reliable internal and guest communications fully integrated with the property’s operational infrastructure.

GPON Fiber Optic Infrastructure

At the core of the project is a robust GPON fiber optic network infrastructure designed to support all resort services with maximum scalability and efficiency.

The deployment included:

• GPON Network architecture
• Fiber optic cabling infrastructure
• CCTV network integration
• Centralized network management

This architecture provides high availability, optimized bandwidth distribution, simplified infrastructure management, and future-ready scalability for upcoming technologies and services.

Benefits for the Resort

• Unified technology ecosystem across the entire property
• High-performance connectivity in all indoor and outdoor areas
• Modern TV and digital guest experience
• Robust and scalable GPON fiber infrastructure
• Simplified operations through centralized management
• Infrastructure prepared for future expansion and digital evolution

Benefits for Guests

• Fast and reliable Wi-Fi connectivity throughout the resort
• Modern in-room TV entertainment experience
• Seamless connectivity across leisure and public areas
• Consistent digital experience across all resort facilities