We had a deck 5 4e on the Fantasy once. I forget the room number but we were forward of the forward elevators, port side. I can honestly say this is my favorite non-concierge stateroom I've had over 10 cruises across all 4 ships. The location was very convenient to everything (we don't have kids in the kids clubs so it's not just that). I liked it better than the deck 9 center 5e we had once. I'm one of the few who hated aft. LOL! I thought the deep verandah was fabulous. A lot of people don't like how open it is out by the rail with all the verandas above you looking down but that didn't bother me. Pretty puch everyone was doing the same as us, looking out. A portion of the verandah was covered which was really nice when it rained ( which we had a lot of on that cruise). I would love to sail in a deck 5 4e again as long as I can get forward of the forward elevators. It was quiet there.
Here's our verandah: