IME, VRPs tend to be used by the airport ATC by telling the inbound to report at point X, and once you are there, they clear you to join downwind or whatever.
So one rarely gets a whole string of VRPs to fly. One just needs to be able to find the one assigned, and ATC rarely care how VFR traffic gets to that VRP.
In the UK, Cranfield has a horrid habit of telling you to report at Woburn Abbey regardless of where you are coming from, so if from the north you have to fly all the way round (due to flying school traffic in the circuit) to the VRP.