The fire pit at Lodge 93 lit at dusk, the barrel sauna and the dock behind it

Get to know your hosts.

Whitefish

Meet the owner of Ultara Stays, Bill Faeth.

Bill has been hosting in this valley for seven years. Nearly eight hundred stays, a rating just shy of perfect, and a Guest Favourite badge on every home in the collection. He built the standard these houses run on by staying in them, stocking them, and answering the messages himself, and that standard is the whole foundation of the company.

If you're a guest, it's why your stay will be great: the person who set up the house has lived the week you're about to have. If you own a home here, it's why yours is safe with us: the same care that earned those reviews is what your property gets, whether or not you're watching.

The people looking after you.

Bill and Brea Faeth, the owners of Ultara Stays, at the front door of the lodge

Bill and Brea Faeth

Owners · Hospitality

Seven years hosting and a Superhost badge that has never lapsed. Bill set the standard and Brea keeps every house to it. Between them, all four homes are Guest Favourites.

Bill and Brea are the two people who decide what goes in the coffee bar, which sheets are worth it, and what a house needs before anyone arrives.

Wild Goose Island in Saint Mary Lake, the peaks of Glacier beyond

Whitefish earns all three seasons.

Very few mountain towns do. Most have a winter and then a shoulder season doing an impression of a summer. Whitefish has three hundred inches of snow on the hill above town, a lake at the end of the main street, and a national park twenty-six miles east that drew more than three million people last year. Three genuinely different reasons to come, and an airport twenty minutes south of town.

It's also still small. The valley rewards knowing people, and it's unkind to operators who treat it as a market rather than a place. Which suits a company that only ever wants a handful of houses in it.

Why we stay small.

We're not small because we couldn't be big. We're small because it's the only way to look after a home properly.

Every home gets our full attention

With four homes, we know each one inside out: which fire needs a second match, which guest is arriving tonight, how they take their coffee. Add fifty more and nobody knows anything. So we don't.

We turn down homes that don't fit

We say no to houses we'd love to have if we can't look after them properly. Every home we take on has to meet the same standard, or the standard means nothing.

We'd rather do it than talk about it

We never call anything luxury. The coffee bar is stocked before you arrive, the milkshake mixer is on the counter, the hot tub is tested. You decide what to call it.

Seven years of hosting behind it, a rating just shy of perfect across nearly eight hundred stays, and a Guest Favourite badge on every house in the collection.

Come and see for yourself.