It's sparser than pictured but that works for me as I can hang ornaments near the trunk and outward and they can all be seen.  The revolving was a surprise (I missed that in the description) but now I'm used to it and like it.  It helped when I was decorating; I plugged the tree in, let it revolve halfway before unplugging and finishing decorating.  To hang the garland I just put one end in the tree, plugged the tree in and fed the garland while the tree rotated! 
You can plug just the lights in so the tree doesn't revolve and there was an extra tree stand if that's what you wanted to do.