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If a party has a super convenient means of transport, they can still have trouble with the last kilometre or so, to give the trip some interest. Star Trek often ignores this for the sake of ease of getting to the important bit of the story: a starship crew will beam down into the middle of a bustling market square on a primitive planet and nobody around pays them any attention, as if people materialising out of nowhere is routine.
But you don't want to make things easy for your players, do you?
Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)
Ding ding ding ding ding! We are three for three on Episodes with Rey's bad parking! It really is the flaw that keeps on giving. And of course Pete won't want to give up the Falcon, so I bet we'll see it happen at least one more time this Episode.
And yet, the bit about finding a bantha skeleton and parking on top of it is somehow even funnier for me. Especially since they've always looked smaller than the Falcon! Out of all the possible places to land that are relatively flat, and they pick the bumpiest. Plus, sand-dried and weathered bones? Probably not the most sturdy of surfaces, so they likely got crushed into the sand during landing as well. The only way this could have been topped is if the rest of the bantha was still there with its skeleton and later the party needs to track down where it had somehow wandered off with the Falcon on its back.
Transcript
GM: The Falcon arrives at Tatooine.
Chewbacca: Where was the package delivery that Lando was chasing?
GM: The Sand People encampment outside Mos Espa.
Chewbacca: Very well. We head there.
GM: You land in the barren desert.
Poe: Where are the Sand People?
GM: On the other side of a 200-metre-high ridge of sandstone.
Poe: Sandstone? In a desert?
GM: Uh... Is that not good?
Poe: That's brilliant! Like the Navajo Sandstone. Classic aeolian dune deposition and erosion leading to inverse grading and gorgeous cross-bedding.
Finn: Buuut... we have to walk over it, right?
C-3PO: Did we let Rey choose the parking spot again?
Rey: It has good sightlines and no time restrictions. I stand by my choice.
Finn: You landed on a bantha skeleton.
GM: The only obstruction in a square kilometre of perfectly flat sand. Truly, a masterclass in suboptimal parking.