It's always a personal choice, of course, but my own opinion is that far and away the best view units at Pinon Pointe are the 2nd and 3rd floor units in Buildings 1-5, which look east toward Snoopy Rock. I will also point out that there are a number of units facing north that are downright awful, looking mainly into parking lots and cell phone towers. It's a wonderful resort in a spectacularly beautiful place, but you do need to be very selective in buying there.
We stayed in one of those “awful rooms facing north” last Thanksgiving. Unit 722, I think. We had a lot of bike gear and wanted to be able to park right outside the door and roll our stuff into the unit, not have to carry the mountain bikes up and down stairs.
Although the entry door for the unit faces north, the unit itself faces south. The balcony looks into a little courtyard area between building 7 and the activities center. It was quiet and we quite liked it. I’m not arguing that it’s a great unit, just that we’ve been in units in phase 2 that were lots of steps, an inconvenient walk to pool area, and no view.
This unit in comparison had a view of a quiet nicely landscaped courtyard (the studio had the cell phone tower parking lot view though, our guest was in there but only slept there), was a two minute walk from pool, hot tub, fire pit, etc. I still probably wouldn’t buy that unit, but I’d be ok staying in it again.
