Seventy-eight rooms, suites and apartments on the second and third floors, all non-smoking, all quiet.

King rooms, double queens, and larger suites with a sitting area and a sofa for the kids.

Free parking at the door. Free WiFi. A front desk that never closes.

The front hall is a room people actually sit in. Deep sofas, a long fireplace, shelves worth browsing and a wall of paintings of the island.

It is the easy place to wait for a table, take a call, or let the kids burn off the last of the day.

Coffee in the morning. Quiet at night.

The front desk is staffed around the clock, so a late arrival after a long drive is never a problem.

Pet-friendly rooms are available. Rooms are booked directly with Hotel Manteo, a Trademark Collection by Wyndham property.

Group blocks for weddings and reunions can be arranged alongside a dinner in the Embers Room upstairs.

A seasonal outdoor pool sits in the courtyard behind the building, open through the warm months.

The fitness center is its own building and runs 24 hours, so an early workout never waits on anyone.

Free parking right outside your door, which in Manteo in July is worth more than it sounds.

The waterfront, the Roanoke Marshes Lighthouse and the shops along Queen Elizabeth Avenue are a short drive or an easy bike ride.

The North Carolina Aquarium, Roanoke Island Festival Park and Fort Raleigh are all a few minutes from the front door.

Nags Head and the beaches are about fifteen minutes across the bridge.

Firetender is in the same building. Stone-oven pizza out of a custom Marra Forni, double smash burgers off the flat top, house pasta and sizzling skillets.

The Weeping Radish Taproom pours four beers from North Carolina's first microbrewery, brewed here on Roanoke Island.

Dinner Tuesday through Sunday, 5 to 9 p.m. No drive home and no designated driver.

The second floor holds a private event room for up to sixty. Weddings and rehearsal dinners, corporate dinners, birthdays, reunions and the large family table.

Custom catering menus come out of the Firetender kitchen, with a portable bar and a room that is yours for the night.

And rooms one floor up for anyone who should not be driving home.