BWV has three room categories: standard view, preferred pool/garden, and preferred boardwalk view. The standard view point requirements are low (comparable to OKW), while boardwalk and pool/garden views cost the same and require points very similar to what is required at BCV for any rooms. Go here for a map that shows location of rooms for the three views
https://www.disboards.com/threads/bwv-standard-studio-view-of-what.3498521/ (note that there are actually now a couple of 1BRs that were changed to standard view in the main Luna Park pool area, which were converted because views were blocked by the pool's slide area). There are also room maps showing the type of rooms and room numbers in the various areas:
https://www.disboards.com/threads/bwv-room-view-and-number-maps.3794835/
The boardwalk view rooms can have noise issues, including in the morning when clean-up is being done on the boardwalk. Nevertheless, those boardwalk view rooms provide one of the best views, if not the the best view, that exists at WDW, looking over the large lake and seeing Epcot's Spaceship Earth (the big golf ball) in the distance. Best room request to make with boardwalk view is higher floor (lowers noise risk and increases view).
Most of the rooms are pool/garden view, and some noise issues can exist in the main, Luna Park pool area for those rooms, standard rooms near the front entrance, and sometimes elsewhere mainly because boats blowing horns can go by. As far as getting a studio at 7-months out goes, standard view is usually not available any time of year except for stray days here and there, boardwalk view is seldom available, and pool/garden view is usually gone during the high demand fall season (late Sep to marathon weekend in Jan) and open only about 40% of the time the rest of the year (before 2016 the pool/garden view studios were almost always open during that mid-Jan to Sep period at 7-months out, but that is when the studios were changed by adding a Murphy bed in the cabinet under the TV so max occupancy became 5 rather than 4, and that caused higher demand for the pool/garden view studios).
You can walk or take a boat to Studios and Epcot. The bus to MK usually does not make stops at other resorts, while the AK bus and one for Disney Springs usually stops at YC and BC/BCV. There are four sit-down restaurants -- ESPN Club (which may still be closed as a result of the pandemic), Trattoria al Forno (a good, mostly Italian restaurant), the Flying Fish (an expensive restaurant -- even by Disney standards -- that only recently re-opened in late Jan 2022), and the Big River Grille and Brewery Works, which is mostly things like hamburgers, sandwiches, steak, ribs, chicken and salmon. There is no buffet restaurant, and quick service is limited to stands on the boardwalk, a window for getting pizza outside of Trattoria, a bakery, and an ice cream store. There is also a nightclub, Jellyrolls, and a dance hall, Atlantic Dance, which can be responsible for some noise along the boardwalk when it closes for the night (I once had a second floor room under which an inebriated woman stopped after leaving Atlantic Dance and started crying loudly, gathering a crowd to console her, with her telling them her fiance had left her at the dance hall, and many near her joined in condemning the missing fiancé; after about 20 minutes, the fiancé showed up telling everyone that he had been looking for her for some time at the dance hall after going to the restroom and could not find her).
