I love my boardwalk view! My two experiences with standard view were overlooking "the swamp", which smelled, and being just over the airconditioners for the building, which was noisy. After that, I paid for the boardwalk view, which is guaranteed, and it's well worth it! It's SO much quieter than all those air conditioners, and it doesn't smell "swampy". I like the preferred view(not boardwalk), but I would request the top floor. The slide looks much nicer when you can look down on it, rather than looking out your door and having it be your total view.