A few thoughts from our trip in October:
We stayed Oct 20 -27 (like a lot of people here!) We arrived at 5:00 pm and were offered a room in Tower 4 13th floor lake view, they said we could wait and try for a fireworks view, but I wanted a high floor and was tired so we took that room. It was great! Loved the view from the balcony, I'm sure it would have been nice to see the fireworks, but we did go watch them from the window by the elevators and while they were nice we didn't feel like we had missed something huge with our pretty lake view. We did need to override the AC. The check in process was fast enough and we did the parking pass desk (I just looked really disinterested and told the lady that we had morning plans everyday - it really went pretty fast) and we were on our way. We got to our room and our kids changed and made it to the pirate slide and still had about 25 minutes to slide before they shut it down (the slide) at 6:00, so we were very happy with check in.
Our room was fine, I don't think it had been refurbed yet, but we did have a new couch (light blue fabric VERY firm). My only real issue with the room at all was the lame shower heads, but seriously that was it so were VERY happy. I have to say that the elevators were incredibly fast all the time, I was amazed at how quick they were.
I am a very light sleeper and was happy to have a high floor, we could hear music/karoake some times around 9/10 at night but it didn't last long and I just turned the fan on with a/c and was fine. I'm sure we go to bed earlier than most on vacation and the music didn't go very late. Never heard any noise from the hallway ever.
We loved the resort, the kids liked pool hopping, although their favorite was the pirate pool/slide. They thought the slide over at Tower 3 was colder water temp.
In a perfect world I would have liked more in room info about the on site restaurants. They only listed real info for one (La Cocina's maybe?) on a magnet on the fridge. It would have been nice to get better ideas of the menus and hours of the other choices also. We got messed up one night when we went to grab burgers from the place in the main building, got there at 6:10 and found out it closed at 6:00. We thought the only other place was the pizza place so we changed out of our suits and popped over to DTD. This was fine as we all enjoy DTD but I found out later we could have gotten food at other places, which would have been a little easier.
Overall we were very happy with the room and resort, loved the location. It was so easy to get to all the parks and especially DTD. I feel like it was a GREAT value for the money!