Adventure Pads is a free vacation rentals site, specialising in "Vacation Rentals for Active Travelers" and has attracted a lot of attention both from vacation rental owners and renters interested who want some "adventure" in their vacations.

Adventure Pads was developed by a group of vacation rental owners with sports addictions and provides lots of specialist functionality to cater to active travelers.

For example, Adventure Pads search function is organised by activity. You can select whether you want to view vacation rentals that facilitate Climbing, Kite Boarding, Mountain Biking, Scuba Diving, Ski and Snowboarding, Surfing and Whitewater activities.

Vacation rental owners and renters can post "travel journals" (you must be registered on the site to post a journal) which is a novel way of highlighting the adventure possibilities of the location of your vacation rental.

Signing up with Adventure Pads is a simple process and follows the usual process of entering information about your vacation rental. Although you are asked about activities in your location, there is no requirement that any special activities are available.

Search functionality on the site is fairly basic, although the map functionality is helpful. You can either search the regular listings, browse the travel journals or search the "Specials" listed on the site. (However, it is not clear how these Specials are set up:there does not seem to be anywhere in the Owner's section to allow you to add a "Special").

Adventure Pads is a small, specialist vacation rentals site, with less than 1000 vacation rental properties listed. As the site is free, there is no downside to listing with them, but if you visitors are likely to be interested in adventure vacations, Adventure Pads may help attract these type of renters.