So I'm numerous hours into Dead Island and am really enjoying it. I've been pretty lucky in that any glitches or bugs I've come across have been minor. There is one thing that gets me is the spawn system when re-entering the game. I usually go to a safe house and quit the game from there but every so often when I jump back into the game I spawn somewhere else. I had finished most of the quests in the city and was about to do the return to the beach quest but it was getting late so I go to the church and quit out. I jump back into the game the next day and it spawns me in the supermarket (and for those who have been there know its a real irritating trek back to the church).  I'm not generaly bothered by the random spawning if I die mid mission but when I go to a safe house to quit.....
Is there any tips other have found to checkpoint the game properly before quitting? I hate sewers in games.

since the saving in this game is so wonky what i usually do is run around or accept a quest until it says game saved and then quit at that point. I really hope they patch in a manual save of some sort

I've had it forget a large number of levels yet again and right now, I just can't face going through it all again.

Far as I can tell it seems that the game will sometimes checkpoint you in a bad spot and then default to somewhere else when you respawn. The giveaway for me has been each time this has happened to me when I respawn it does that old open world game trick of spawning me a few feet in the air.