If there's going to be a vehicle between the Moon and its surface, there are several factors to think about:

In order to be able to quickly rendez-vous with an orbiting CEV, the landing site should either be at the Moon equator (for a CEV in an equatorial orbit) or at the poles (for a CEV at a Moon polar orbit); these are the safest places for frequent launch windows.

In order to reduce as much weight as possible (increasing the payload capacity too), the LSAM should not even be pressurized! Spacesuited astronauts should land on the Moon (it would equire 2 hours or less between the CEV and a pressurized Moonbus or Moonbase).
After all, all astronauts for the Moon are going to have their spacesuit anyway; those spacesuits should withstand very tough rides, last a long time, be small spacecrafts and enable astronauts to pilot their LSAM. At landing, there's a lot of dust spread, but it doesn't fall on their head (it spreads radially around them) but anyway, those spacesuits should also protect them against that.

Raoul