Just thought I would add my 2 cents about this, since I just stayed in a South Garden Wing room last week. My view was a parking lot view, although it didn't seem like a stark parking lot look out your window like at a motel or something. Yes, there was a parking lot in the background, but there were trees and bushes and everything right behind the room, so that the parking lot seemed in the background. Also the monorail went by overhead, which was very magical. I was on the first floor, so I had a patio with 2 chairs and a table. The second and third floors have a sliding door but no balcony. It was very pleasant and pretty quiet to go out on the patio and sit and watch the monorail go by. As far as the rooms go, it looked pretty recently refurbished to me- everything looked fairly new and stylish. The bathroom had all marble floors and the walls of the tub were marble also. The carpet and drapes and bedspreads all looked fairly new- the only stain I could find was a small stain on the daybed. The room was definitely NOT threadbare, and there were NO falling ceiling tiles LOL. I have a feeling the garden rooms are more quiet than the tower rooms because of being away from all the noise and monorail going through the building and such- it's kind of a trade off though- the tower rooms are probably a little more convenient (although it didn't seem like a long hike to the restaurants and monorail for me, and the walkways from the garden buildings are covered), and the tower rooms I'm sure have a better view both from the balcony and from outside your door inside the building. To me, it doesn't seem worth paying probably more than 100 bucks more for the tower (the tower rooms are sometimes double the price of the garden rooms), but it depends on what's important to you I guess.