When you pull up to the MK parking attendant booth, they will scan your Magic Band (or phone now). That will show that you have a resort stay and you will not be charged.
I know 4001(Grand Suite), 4002(the 3 balconies right next to the GS) both have 2 bedrooms & over look the courtyard pool.
In the main building they are on the 5th floor on side facing poly and GFV.
We just returned yesterday from a short trip, April 12-15. We booked an outer building garden view room and requested a "nice view." We were given room #5417 in Sago Cay. The rom overlooked the marina and you could see Space Mountain when you looked toward the left. The castle was hiding behind the building's outside stairwell. We were a few doors away from the elevator and our balcony was next to the balcony for the turret room. The maintenance room was between our room and the turret room, so we discovered that they put the balcony for the turret room on the outside wall of the maintenance room. After all, the maintenance room didn't need a balcony.
We found Sago Cay to be an extremely convenient location. The beginning of the walking path was just steps from the exit stairs. We could place a mobile order for Gasparillas from our room and race down there in under two minutes to pick it up when it was ready. There is also a short pathway to the buses from that area. Because the walking path to MK was right outside our building, we never used the monorail. It was especially nice to be able to walk to MK before park opening, when lines were short. It was also handy to use the walking path to catch the bat to Wilderness Lodge because the walking path ends right next to the WL/FW boat dock.
The downside was the park buses. There were so many people trying to get to the parks in the morning that not everyone could fit on the first bus to arrive. They were using charter tour buses in addition to the regular Disney buses, to take people to HS and AK. We had a very long wait at Epcot when re tried to return to GF around 7pm. The line of people waiting was so long that not everyone was able to get on the bus that finally arrived. Boy, was that man angry when he found out he couldn't get on the bus. They need to reopen the Epcot monorail to help ease up some of these bus rutes.
I would have been terribly upset with that view! I agree with @GADisneyDad14 that some people with garden view rooms get a much better "lagoon view" than that! Although it does look really pretty standing up, the whole idea to me is to have a nice view while sitting down having a cup of coffee or a glass of wine! I thought by booking a LV, I wouldn't need to request a nice view! That's just terrible because having no connecting door is very important to me! I hope they hurry up with bringing the RPC rooms back!
I 100% agree! I wonder if they think being able to crane your neck and see the castle makes it something of a preferred room status above garden view? Not worth the upgrade price in my opinion.
I’ll be sure to update this thread if I hear anything!
Question: did you literally request "nice view"? LOL I need to know how you did this because I didn't think we could be that vague but it clearly worked for you!
Hi, all. I've done a search in this thread (floorplan, layout, etc) but was not able to find the information I was looking for. We have an Outer Building - Lagoon View reservation. I was looking at the room photos at the WDW website. It appears that this room class has a sofa. Does anyone know if this sofa folds out to a bed? We'd love to be able to have our 18 YO son and 24 YO daughter in separate beds.
Thanks very much for your response. It was very helpful. And while I was on the WDW site I noticed a current promotion (2 extra ticket days) that should lower my cost. woo hoo. Now to talk to the TA.
Yes.Question: did you literally request "nice view"? LOL I need to know how you did this because I didn't think we could be that vague but it clearly worked for you!
I called Disney reservations and ask them to add the request for a nice view to the reservation. The CM laughed and she said that she liked my attitude. This is not the first time that I requested a nice view at one of the Disney resorts. Whenever we book a standard view, which isn't very often, I will request a nice view. 
