Park once. Walk downstairs at seven for stone-oven pizza and a Weeping Radish beer. Take the stairs back up when you are done.

No drive home over the bridge. No designated driver. No hunting for a parking spot in July.

One building, one address, one night that takes care of itself.

The Embers Room on the second floor seats up to sixty for weddings, rehearsal dinners, reunions and corporate dinners.

Custom catering menus come out of the Firetender kitchen, and a block of rooms can be held in the same building.

Guests eat, celebrate and go to bed without ever leaving the property.

Book the room directly with Hotel Manteo, a Trademark Collection by Wyndham property. Rates, dates and room types are all on their booking page.

Then reserve a table at Firetender for dinner, Tuesday through Sunday, 5 to 9 p.m.

Mention that you are eating with us and the front desk can help line the two up. Questions about either one, call us at (252) 262-6112.

Seventy-eight rooms and suites on the floors above the restaurant. King rooms, double queens, and larger suites with a sitting area.

Free parking at the door, free WiFi, a 24-hour gym, a seasonal outdoor pool and pet-friendly rooms.

Quiet, non-smoking, and about thirty seconds from your table.

Start at the bar with a flight of four Weeping Radish beers or a cocktail off what we think is the best top shelf on the island.

Then dinner: pizza blistered in about ninety seconds, double smash burgers, house pasta, sizzling skillets and a rotating list of chef's features.

After that it is one flight of stairs instead of forty minutes of highway.