This whole scene should've been cut like fat-hobo-Jabba.
I thought it was pretty fun... Sure it didn't have a lot of purpose, but it was fun seeing that Han was still the swindling scoundrel we all know.
Really, my only problem was the CGI creatures. They felt like something out of the 2009 Star Trek film rather than Star Wars. Even then, they didn't bother me, they just struck me as odd.