Kahitar

So I send a MPL to each Mun and minmus, getting ready to get all the science out there. After they both arrived I realised I had no crew at all send with them. Beeing quite early in the tech tree, not having any pods offering space for muptiple kerbals, I just put 2 one man pods on one rocket. Send it to mun and found out i didn't have enough fuel left for a Rendezvous with my mpl. Whatever... have to send some fuel for multiple landings to different biomes and returning to the mpl anyways. So i send some fuel, rendezvous'ed with my 2 man craft and Rendezvous'ed both with my mpl and put the kerbals in it. Next part of the mission was to land with the 2-man-rocket which also contained the Sciencepack. So i undocked the refueler and lander, burned retrograde for a suborbital detachement of my refueler so it would crash on the ground. Transferred all the fuel and rcs fuel from the remote controlled refueler to the lander and undocked. Well.... next thing i noticed: i had no controll over the lander since i forgot my kerbal piloting it in the mpl. Also couldn't redock with the refueler since it had no fuel left for any maneuvering.

Question: Isn't it worth to go to one biome with the mpl, do all experiments, transmit them and do the same experiments in the same biome again to take them back home?