For those that have booked the garden view room, was your stay quieter than overlooking the pools? How was your view? Did it include a balcony?

We also had a garden view room and it was a nice quiet room with view. Not as spectacular as a lagoon view but also none of the hustle and bustle of the walkways below. The balcony was just big enough for two adults to stand on not much room to move around.

We had a garden view room the weekend of New Years. Very quiet with a balcony. View wasn't that bad.

We stayed in one of the DVC villas on the east side of the resort, facing Epcot. It was very quiet there and the balcony was decently sized.