Loading into wrong area
I’m pretty sure that when you enter a PvP area your “saved” location is still the PvE one that you would teleport back to if you manually left the PvP thing. eg: the lobby, a pvp match, a regular wvw map, or the edge of the mists.
So, when you go to character select the same thing happens: out of the pvp instance, and when you log back in, back to the saved PvE location.
Nah I pvp and pve a lot. If my last location was HotM then usually that will be my last recorded location, and I’ll load into it from character select. This is a pretty new issue for me.