The north wing does have balconies.
Request a room facing downtown disney.
We had a room on the 10th floor facing Downtown Disney. You could see the Tree of Life, Swan/Dolphin, Tower of Terror off in the distance.
Illuminations at Epcot at night we could also see!!
The room we had was beautiful--very bright and cheary yellows, oranges, and greens were the primarary colors of the room. Furnishings were top notch also. We had a queen size bed. The hotel/resort is VERY HUGE and is very convenient to get to the parks--if you know where your going.--We stayed at the Downtown Disney Hilton 2 weeks ago and even though we were a little closer to the "world" it was not as convenient as the Marriot also not as nice.
Although we are DVC members I would HIGHLY recomend this resort/hotel to anyone!!!
Scott