Welcome to Fun Stays!

Whether you have a timeshare to exchange or are just looking for a low cost accommodation option, Fun Stays can help make your next vacation more affordable.

While featuring properties in Myrtle Beach, SC and Wisconsin Dells, WI, Fun Stays can arrange accommodations in vacation destinations around the world. Where would you like to travel?

Fun Stays

Carol Demler

E9420 Pebblebeach Dr, Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965

608-253-4232

608-253-5392 fax

By reading the article below you will learn how Fun Stays was started in 1997 as an avocation.  But, the business grew to be much more!  It has now become not just a full time job for Carol but a hefty parttime job for Steve, who retired from the printing industry in 2005.  The properties featured on this web site are just a sampling!  Be sure to Call Carol if you want any additional information or vacation ideas!  

Business Owner Wants to Have Fun
(reprinted from the West Bend News , July 1997)

Demler increases scope of operation 

A new corporation name will lead to an increase in services offered by a local businesswoman. Carol Demler Financial Services of West Bend has officially been renamed CDFS, an intentionally ambiguous name. In addition to continuing the operation of Carol Demler Financial Services, Demler will also do business as Carol Demler’s Fun Stays. After nearly  two decades in the insurance business, Demler said she welcomes the chance to sideline in a business that focuses on “fun”. Her love of travel prompted the creation of Fun Stays, an agency aimed at providing affordable vacation accommodations at timeshare condominiums.

Carol and  her husband Steve Demler recognized 12 years ago that their shared interest in travel could put a strain on their family budget. They purchased a timeshare condominium in Wisconsin Dells. Two years later, the Demlers purchased a second unit in Panama City Beach, which they sold when they bought a larger timeshare unit in Daytona Beach. They didn’t stop there. In 1994, the Demlers bought a condo in Myrtle Beach, S. C. And another one near Wisconsin Dells, both of which offered the capability to do 52 weeks of timesharing. Because the Demlers couldn’t travel enough to utilize all of the properties, the Dells and Myrtle Beach condos were placed on a rental program, Carol Demler said.

The Demlers became associated with C.A.R.E. (Cooperative Association of Resort Exchange), a networking system of resort developers, vacation wholesalers, travel clubs and timeshare exchangers throughout the world. Working through C.A.R.E., Fun Stays will add a new twist to timeshare exchanging. A person owning a timeshare or comparable vacation property will be able to execute an exchange through Fun Stays at a discounted rate compared to international travel exchange associations, Demler said. But Fun Stays’ primary market is clients who don’t have timeshares and would like to take part in the exchange process anyway, Demler said.

The total cost of a vacation week through Fun Stays will be between $300 and $500*, depending on time of year, size of units and level of demand for the requested destination, Demler said. Fun Stays will have no membership fee and clients won’t have to pay until vacation accommodations are confirmed. Fun Stays won’t be the primary focus of CDFS, but it is one that Demler said she eagerly anticipates. “I am looking forward to adding ‘fun’ to my business,” she said.

Here is what one of our patron's had to say about Fun Stays:

05/17/2009

  My first vacation with accommodations arranged by Funstays was a trip to England.

Funstays arranged for a week on a canal boat out of Sawley Marina near Nottingham.

You got a short lesson in opening and closing locks and steering and you were on your own to putt through the English countryside stopping for meals at canalside pubs. The boat was nicely appointed and slept 6. The cost was reasonable and the accommodation very comfortable. Everything went so smoothly. It was the greatest experience!

  I returned to the South of England on another occasion and Funstays found a house in the countryside for myself and 5 friends. Again, the house was comfortable and clean and roomy. It was on a lane full of blackberry bushes with berries, very picturesque. The cost again was easily divided for a great vacation.

  Santa Fe, New Mexico was the next destination. I contacted Funstays and they found me a 2 bedroom condo in a resort setting 2 blocks off the square...very hard to find affordable housing in Santa Fe, let alone 2 blocks off the square. The condo was elegant and within walking distance of most of the tourist things in Santa Fe. We had a super time.

  The most recent accommodation through Funstays was a condo at Lake Geneva, Wi.

The condo was very nicely furnished. I would call it above average. We took the sightseeing boat on the Lake and strolled through the shops in town. The resort had a pool and a golf course and a knockout breakfast buffet.

  I have been above satisfied with every accommodation arranged by Funstays. The staff at Funstays is easy to work with and will search high and low to find the place you want. They even found me a room in downtown San Francisco but I had to cancel ..... Costs have been very reasonable and the memories very rich.

Pat R.
Sun Prairie, WI