We stayed in an Artisian Suite at GC a couple years ago with a Downtown Disney view and enjoyed it. While you could hear lots of people noise if you had the balcony window open, it was impressively quieter with the window closed. We could see the fireworks perfectly just sitting on our bed with the curtains open. We're going back to the GC again in early December, but this time we are getting a theme park view (I'll be curious to note the difference). Hope this helps. We really enjoyed the GC (we've been to PP and DLH as well), but chose to return to the GC for the luxuriousness and the convenience to the parks. Hope this helps.