The only negative experience I had this trip - besides the disaster with the spirit jersey release - was at the new GCH Craftsman Bar. There was a convention in the hotel and staff was clearly more interested in catering to the visitors with a convention badge. No one felt responsible for our table. Got a manager involved and ended up with three servers after that, so easily rectified.
Other than that I only have praise. Like tsumgirl said, just approach CMs if needed. Pretty much any time I have hesitated to do so the CM apologized for not reacting to me straight away, so it's really only a matter of getting used to it I think.
I've posted part of this this in the Halloween topic already, but I'll post here again:
The last 2 pin event trips to Paris were so bad, they almost made me forget that there's Cast Members who really care. The new Hidden Mickey Pins dropped half way through my trip. A really really cool release this year. I especially wanted one of the stylized
Disneyland "D" pins, the one with the Cheshire Cat. It's pretty much considered the hardest one of the entire release, and it doesn't help that all Wonderland fans want it. We needed 2 as well because the friend I was with a lot of the time is a huge Wonderland collector too.
So a week into the trip me and another friend walked into a Cast Member who had a lot of the new pins on her lanyard. We got chatting, and she asked if I had found everything I wanted yet. I replied almost, but I was having no luck whatsoever with the D. My friend laughed and added that I had come from Germany and had been dragging him all over the park all week trying to find that D.
She went through her pockets, pulled out a pin and asked "is this time one you are looking for?" It was. I started shaking so badly, my friend had to officially trade her for it because I couldn't get the pin off my lanyard. I stammered thank you like a complete fool, and she only smiled and said that she loves when she can make magic.
Then the next day another CM saw my Rescue Rangers camera strap and randomly gifted me a Chip and Dale pin. Still a complete mystery to me how he saw that, he was doing crowd control at Fantasmic and the show was on. So really dark.
A couple of days later we got chatting to another CM at Star Traders about pins. He even remembered us from a few days before. We mentioned our Chessie D hunt and that the first one had gone to our completist friend, and that I was hoping to find myself that pin before we go. (I have a rule: even if I like a character I won't take the pin if a friend collects that character too. Most of them are completists who really want all pins of that character, and I am not destroying a collection for the sake of having a pin.) I was very pleasantly surprised there because one of the other CMs came up to me and asked if I wanted to trade for a Chipmunk pin she had seen on the board - I was wearing a Rescue Rangers shirt that day and had the Rescue Rangers as my camera strap as said above.
After our chat we went in line for Launch Bay, which we had mentioned to the CM at Star Traders. Suddenly he shows up in line, jokingly tells me "but you have to trade me something really good for it!" and holds out the Chessie D. Everyone who was around gasped, and I almost burst out in tears. He had gone backstage, found me the pin and then made the effort to track us down. That's going way beyond anything. And of course I gave him the biggest Paris pin I had with me in trade.
It's really all about how you approach the CMs. Pin trading gives you a good view of that. We saw some other traders descending like vultures on a CM who had new pins. She even apologized to us that these people had taken all good ones. The next day another CM again had so many new pins and we were laughing and telling him we'd have a hard time choosing - for the non traders, you can trade 2 pins per day per CM normally. He randomly allowed us to trade three.
apparently on our last trip there was a little “ta do” at the Cantina that ended up with my daughter being thrown to the ground by a CM. I wasn’t there but it had something to do with a stool for a guest and another cast member and a fight. She is tiny and was just actually pushed in the back to get out of the way by one cast member trying to get to the other. We’re pretty sure neither are working there anymore. Her brother came and helped her off the floor and tapped the kid on the shoulder and told him to apologize (baby brother is 6’3” and an athletic 245 lbs) 
.......they laughed it off but I was like really....in 
