Outdoor WiFi solution for beach hotel

Hello everyone,
I was hoping some of you could give a hand with this:
I'm designing a wireless solution for a beach hotel and I want to be sure we will be using the best AP <-> WLC combination and that my design works for indoor AP's too.
Checking each models, I made a little diagram attached in order for you to please advise what would be the best combination to use.
Any further questions please do not hesitate to ask.
Thanks!

I was looking for a solution to enable hotel customers to login through some sort of "special offerings website" (like in airports) using their room number or initials and then grant access to customers while monitoring and limiting their available bandwidth.
I thought the best recommendation was to have a Cisco device do that, so I was thinking about using the Cisco NAC Guest Server "appliance" but now that you mention Purple-WiFi & Nomadix, any other manufacturer recommendation would be great.
This hotel has aprox. 150 rooms, so I guess access to 500 hosts would be more than enough.

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