The two times I had a huge balcony, I faced the road both times. And in my first pool view room (I've had pool view twice), I had a very small balcony. Due to the architecture of the BCV, the way it looks, the larger balconies are on the 2nd and 4th floor, and the smaller ones are usually on the 3rd floor. But don't take that as a hard and fast rule-the smallest balcony I ever had was on the 4th floor!